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[rowan1]

Group of students walking in front of me: (name has been changed to protect the Prof)

"I totally said the wrong name"
"Its a weird name"
"Yeah but he got in my face about it"
"What is it anyway?
"Yo shy ro, or OO see oo, or something like that." (its Ueshiro - sweet guy can't imagine him getting in anyone's face)
"Just call em Father and your covered."

I had to change directions to stop laughing, because while there are a number of Priests who are Profs on our campus, most aren't.  And Father Ueshiro is one of the few Buddhists on campus.  Although he does teach in the Philosophy and Religious studies department.

Anyone else got some tib bits you have heard?

[mcdlt]

I actually sent this one in to Overheard Everywhere.

At a bus stop:

Guy: So, I'm doing this essay on Ohhh-de-pus.  It's really weird.  He kills his dad and he marries his mom.
Girl:  GROSS.  [pause] So, do they do it?
Guy:  Oh yeah.  Even had kids.
Girl:  Cool.

[historian]

Near admin a couple of weeks ago, two undergrad girls walking if front of me.

A---"I hate to take classes with him. He's a perv!"
B--"just don't go to his office hours!"
A--"Nah, I think he'd rape me or something...
B--"He snapped the back of X's thong!"
A--"he didn't!
B--"yeah, total perv"
A--"Isn't that sexual harrassment or something?"
B-- "Nah, we don't believe in that stuff, that dyky feminst stuff"
A--"yeah, just stay out of reach and don't go to his office"
B--"yeah, that's what you have to do"


I'm still shocked by the entire exchange.

[blokus]

My school newspaper collects "overheard on campus" quotations from students and prints them. Students are encouraged to post ridiculous things their profs and TAs say. I don' t know how the paper prints them, but on the online collection site where these are displayed, students generally post with the professor's name.

I live in fear.

[2nd_career]

As you as you don't snap any thongs, I think you'll be OK.

Spork?

[profnik]

Overheard cellphone conversation on a blustery 68 degree September day.

"Girl, we ain't going out. I gonna stay in the dorms tonight. It's too damn cold. We can't go out."

I teach in Central New York, an area that will get snowfall measured in feet and will get a wee bit colder, especially when the wind whips between the buildings.

I smiled knowlingly.

[summers_off]

I used to teach at a school that had very short, condensed semesters--same number of contact hours, but just over a few weeks.  One evening I was walking out of the building and overheard one student say to another:

"Yeah, it's intense and can be difficult to get all your work done, but I like it becuase just when your really sick of it, it's over."

I wanted to chime in:  Yes! Yes!!

[medievalgrad]

A few years back, I was walking down the hall and overheard this little snippet of conversation. (I wanted to stay and hear more, but there was no way to do so without actually looking like I was trying to overhear.)

"Well, at least you didn't take Greek just because you're in a sorority and know the alphabet."

[starfleet_grad]

Cell phone conversation. Things said by person I overheard:

"Wassup?"

"Nothin."

"Ah dunno."

"Dude."

"Later."


Why? Why was this conversation necessary?

[qt314]

Not overheard, but a conversation I had with a student who was looking for her TA. the student did not know the TA's name, and was trying to describe her.

Her English isn't too good. I think she's Norwegian.
(the TA was from New Zealand).

[fiona]

Cell phone conversation. Things said by person I overheard:

"Wassup?"

"Nothin."

"Ah dunno."

"Dude."

"Later."


Why? Why was this conversation necessary?

This conversation takes place thousands of times a day, on every campus and in every venue. It is the proto conversation of our times.

You just don't know greatness when you hear it, dude.

The Fiona

[mended_drum]

Overheard after one of my classes:  "Wow!  She's not nearly as much of a b*tch as I thought she'd be."

Such a warm glow I felt.

[infopri]

Near admin a couple of weeks ago, two undergrad girls walking if front of me.

A---"I hate to take classes with him. He's a perv!"
B--"just don't go to his office hours!"
A--"Nah, I think he'd rape me or something...
B--"He snapped the back of X's thong!"
A--"he didn't!
B--"yeah, total perv"
A--"Isn't that sexual harrassment or something?"
B-- "Nah, we don't believe in that stuff, that dyky feminst stuff"
A--"yeah, just stay out of reach and don't go to his office"
B--"yeah, that's what you have to do"


I'm still shocked by the entire exchange.

This didn't happen to transpire at UCLA, did it?  ;-)

[historian]

Near admin a couple of weeks ago, two undergrad girls walking if front of me.

A---"I hate to take classes with him. He's a perv!"
B--"just don't go to his office hours!"
A--"Nah, I think he'd rape me or something...
B--"He snapped the back of X's thong!"
A--"he didn't!
B--"yeah, total perv"
A--"Isn't that sexual harrassment or something?"
B-- "Nah, we don't believe in that stuff, that dyky feminst stuff"
A--"yeah, just stay out of reach and don't go to his office"
B--"yeah, that's what you have to do"


I'm still shocked by the entire exchange.

This didn't happen to transpire at UCLA, did it?  ;-)

Nope, fine state U in the South where everyone is upright, moral and decent---well, except this guy apparently.

[infopri]

Near admin a couple of weeks ago, two undergrad girls walking if front of me.

A---"I hate to take classes with him. He's a perv!"
B--"just don't go to his office hours!"
A--"Nah, I think he'd rape me or something...
B--"He snapped the back of X's thong!"
A--"he didn't!
B--"yeah, total perv"
A--"Isn't that sexual harrassment or something?"
B-- "Nah, we don't believe in that stuff, that dyky feminst stuff"
A--"yeah, just stay out of reach and don't go to his office"
B--"yeah, that's what you have to do"


I'm still shocked by the entire exchange.

This didn't happen to transpire at UCLA, did it?  ;-)

Nope, fine state U in the South where everyone is upright, moral and decent---well, except this guy apparently.

I was just making an interthreadual joke.