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[benji]

Oh, what a great thread!  I really needed a laugh today.

I have a story to share about a graduate school advisor.  Early in his career, while teaching a laboratory class, he bent over a Bunsen burner and set his hair on fire.  Luckily, students were quickly able to put out the flames.

[fluti31415]

Teaching a math class. I had been an electronics technician in the Navy, and we had a saying that you had to be 10% smarter than the equipment you operate in order to make it work correctly. Students were having problems with getting their calculator calcuations to come out ok, and I teased them with that comment (I was a grad student then and it was a pretty raucous class). Luaghter subsides, and I turn around to write next point on blackboard. And the chalk broke in two.

[voxprincipalis]

Well, I just wanted to share that this morning, during my movement class, I fell flat on my tuckus. I was demonstrating something to a student who was not getting it and had been too lazy to take off my stockings, since I didn't anticipate I was really going to need to move much during the class. So I demonstrated this thing for her that involved a jumping movement and when I came down my feet went right out from under me and I went smack on my Derrida-iere.

Riotous laughter ensued. It was pretty funny. No one offered to help me up, though.

I said, "Do you see how effective that can be? It just knocked me off my feet. And by the way, this is why I make you take off your socks in movement class, so you don't fall over."

Sigh.....

VP

[jack0034]

A colleague/friend of mine once lectured with his fly open - whilst going  commando.  It's preserved for posterity, as another friend was taping it for her diss. research on teaching archaeology.