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« Reply #525 on: April 17, 2007, 04:35:22 PM » |
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Is this a hijack, or can I talk about staples on this thread?
Only if they're appropriately colored. |
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It's not procrastination. It's "just in time" delivery.
Nutso is the new normal.
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mchap11
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« Reply #526 on: April 17, 2007, 06:36:32 PM » |
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Is this a hijack, or can I talk about staples on this thread?
Only if they're appropriately colored. Oh the hell with it . . . speaking of staples: I received a college-wide email awhile back from HR asking everyone to stop using staples on the inter-office envelopes because too many people were sticking themselves. Can you spell litigation? Sorry for the hijack with a flatted third but I couldn't help sharing this one. If only I'd kept that email, then you'd all have to believe me. |
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The sheep comment explained: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TeiSsJ3G_0"I am just going outside and may be some time." (Captain Lawrence Oates, Antarctic explorer, before walking out into a blizzard to face certain death, 1912) |
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« Reply #527 on: April 17, 2007, 06:40:01 PM » |
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I had a student who used to rent his stapler out to classmates before the start of class. He made good money from that little racket. I asked for a cut, and he laughed at me.
Next rant:
Don't skip class for three weeks and then be surprised that I did not schedule you into the performance schedule. I assume that you have fallen off of the face of the earth. Your magical reappearance with an attitude is not going to work in your favor. Indeed, you're mighty lucky that I didn't schedule you for the first day of performances, because we all know that you would not have been prepared for it.
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I am the very model of a modern major general.
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« Reply #528 on: April 17, 2007, 07:42:08 PM » |
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Having a significant medical issue does not excuse you from 6 weeks of class requirements!
(does that come off as unsympathetic?)
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« Reply #529 on: April 17, 2007, 07:43:43 PM » |
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In the same vein:
I'm sorry, but you can't redeem your problems in life for class points.
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That's all for now.
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larryc
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Eschew the hu.
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« Reply #530 on: April 17, 2007, 07:45:21 PM » |
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Coach Numbnuts: What the hell are you thinking scheduling all your games on the same day in the middle of the week? The student who has missed 1/3rd the semester to keep his baseball scholarship seems like a fine young man. Though it is hard to be sure, I have seen so little of him. In any case, he is going to fail my class.
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anthroid
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No happy socks because nobody gets Manitoba.
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« Reply #531 on: April 17, 2007, 09:16:24 PM » |
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Is this a hijack, or can I talk about staples on this thread?
Only if they're appropriately colored. I thought we liberal leftwing wingnuts don't use the "c" word any more. Anyway, diversity is bad (see post #1). |
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Do you hail from Planet Hello Kitty? It's like an action movie, but boring.
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« Reply #532 on: April 17, 2007, 10:01:49 PM » |
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My rants:
1. "I'm sick of all the intellectual f---ing that goes on around here."
2. "Stop hitting on those 20-year-old girls, you pathetic bastard, and find another way to deal with your mid-life crisis."
3. "And as for you -- get anger management training."
4. "I'm leaving! I'm leaving! Thank god! And I'm going to make more money than I ever would have here."
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« Reply #533 on: April 18, 2007, 02:16:28 AM » |
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Very good idea. I shall hum it now. "Snark The Fiona." Sounds good. The Fiona I like the Staples Singers, but I do not like unstapled papers.
My middle name is Snark.
No, on second thought, my first name is Snark.
Snark The Fiona
Is this like "Rock the Casbah"? |
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The Fiona or perhaps La Fiona
Professor of Thread Killing, Fiork University
The Right Reverend Fiona, PhD, Bishop of the Fora
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expatinuk
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« Reply #534 on: April 18, 2007, 08:33:42 AM » |
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Coach Numbnuts: What the hell are you thinking scheduling all your games on the same day in the middle of the week? The student who has missed 1/3rd the semester to keep his baseball scholarship seems like a fine young man. Though it is hard to be sure, I have seen so little of him. In any case, he is going to fail my class.
Athletic schedules are made up years in advance and are done by the athletic director's office not the coach. |
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Expatinuk seems to be a Soviet Satellite in stationary orbit over the UK
It is what it is.
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expatinuk
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« Reply #535 on: April 18, 2007, 08:35:41 AM » |
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Don't skip class for three weeks and then be surprised that I did not schedule you into the performance schedule. I assume that you have fallen off of the face of the earth. Your magical reappearance with an attitude is not going to work in your favor. Indeed, you're mighty lucky that I didn't schedule you for the first day of performances, because we all know that you would not have been prepared for it.
I solve this problem by putting students who have been captured by space aliens at the END of the schedule. When they don't show up, we go home early. If they do show up they can't complain that they didn't get the opportunity to do their presentation. |
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Expatinuk seems to be a Soviet Satellite in stationary orbit over the UK
It is what it is.
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« Reply #536 on: April 18, 2007, 09:02:56 AM » |
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Don't skip class for three weeks and then be surprised that I did not schedule you into the performance schedule. I assume that you have fallen off of the face of the earth. Your magical reappearance with an attitude is not going to work in your favor. Indeed, you're mighty lucky that I didn't schedule you for the first day of performances, because we all know that you would not have been prepared for it.
I solve this problem by putting students who have been captured by space aliens at the END of the schedule. When they don't show up, we go home early. If they do show up they can't complain that they didn't get the opportunity to do their presentation. Probably a good idea. I think I was in full-on wish-fulfillment mode and hoped that not putting him on the schedule would send a "you cannot pass, please stop trying, the math is against you" message since he has not comprehended any of the actual messages I send which say that exact same thing. Sigh. |
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I am the very model of a modern major general.
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« Reply #537 on: April 18, 2007, 09:16:48 AM » |
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I would love to say, to students and others (MOM):
If you are stupid, it is probably in your best interest not to try and speak.
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Who looks for God in the Bible? That's pretty dumb.
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« Reply #538 on: April 18, 2007, 09:37:12 AM » |
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To those who are tenured and/or either have not written anything and will never write anything.
Stop hanging around directly outside of my office talking about your children, your new apartment, your weekend, and where you buy your clothes.
I am trying to write.
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« Reply #539 on: April 18, 2007, 10:28:21 AM » |
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"Your stupidity impedes me."
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"Look upon me! I'll show you the 'life of the mind.'"
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