diotima
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« Reply #180 on: May 04, 2008, 11:27:26 AM » |
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This is hearsay-overheard, and it seems too perfect to be what my colleague claimed: something she overheard in the library.
Prof is standing behind one student at Reference Desk. Student is waiting for reference librarian to help with something. He sees the volumes of Britannica on the shelf behind the desk.
Student: What are those?
Librarian: That's the encyclopedia.
Student: Somebody printed all that out?
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magimax
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« Reply #181 on: May 04, 2008, 03:20:41 PM » |
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This is hearsay-overheard, and it seems too perfect to be what my colleague claimed: something she overheard in the library.
Prof is standing behind one student at Reference Desk. Student is waiting for reference librarian to help with something. He sees the volumes of Britannica on the shelf behind the desk.
Student: What are those?
Librarian: That's the encyclopedia.
Student: Somebody printed all that out?
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Нема лоша ракиа, има малко.
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gennimom
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« Reply #182 on: May 04, 2008, 09:28:15 PM » |
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Poor little snowflake has never seen the original encyclopedias. The only ones they've seen are online or on a cd. Since I know I got my first cd encyclopedia back in 1997, this is entirely possible.
But still, to not know they were originally printed?!?
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« Reply #183 on: May 04, 2008, 09:34:45 PM » |
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Your snowflakes go to the library? And the reference desk? And ask about something they aren't familiar with? I think this would be enough to forgive the whole print encyclopedia gaff.
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I like money. I like to buy stuff and experiences with money.
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« Reply #184 on: May 04, 2008, 10:11:40 PM » |
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I was happy just to pass advanced stats in my PhD institution, after getting an 11 (yes, an eleven) on the first quiz. I should ask Mr. 100 for tutoring. Here's what I overheard today: "I got a 100 on my stats quiz! I am not stupid! Not, not, not!"
And then he danced a little jig.
Wish I could be that happy. |
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sciencephd
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« Reply #185 on: May 04, 2008, 10:16:25 PM » |
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Imagine their shock upon venturing into the stacks of a major library. They would probably think that the entire web had been printed out.
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O, what a hateful feminist concoction!
Jews, communists, "lesbians", feminists and marihuana addicts --Pyshnov
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galactic_hedgehog
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« Reply #186 on: May 04, 2008, 10:51:15 PM » |
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Are the students who venture into the stacks actually looking at the books? I thought their minds were focused elsewhere.
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« Reply #187 on: May 04, 2008, 10:53:21 PM » |
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Are the students who venture into the stacks actually looking at the books? I thought their minds were focused elsewhere.
You're thinking of the VL's |
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I just hate it that I constantly have to like everyone and everything. -- moonstone
O, what a hateful feminist concoction!
Jews, communists, "lesbians", feminists and marihuana addicts --Pyshnov
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« Reply #188 on: May 05, 2008, 06:12:19 PM » |
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Are the students who venture into the stacks actually looking at the books? I thought their minds were focused elsewhere.
You're thinking of the VL's Talking of asking what you don't know--what are VLs? Thanks, A purported writing teacher who's supposed to be good at wordplay |
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galactic_hedgehog
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« Reply #189 on: May 05, 2008, 06:19:45 PM » |
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Are the students who venture into the stacks actually looking at the books? I thought their minds were focused elsewhere.
You're thinking of the VL's Talking of asking what you don't know--what are VLs? Thanks, A purported writing teacher who's supposed to be good at wordplay Are you sure you want to know? Very well. http://chronicle.com/forums/index.php/topic,49504.0.html |
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« Reply #190 on: May 05, 2008, 07:16:09 PM » |
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This is the best thread ever. I just read the whole thing and I am still laughing.
Examples:
"I'm in love...with your stomach..."
They did this because you are not real: you are TV.
"I got drunk last night and whizzed in my laundry!"
MORE!
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« Reply #191 on: September 07, 2008, 12:44:49 PM » |
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Since we're well past the first day of the semester here, I figured I'd resurrect this thread for an intriguing conversation I overheard this morning between two female students:
-- My hipbone is bruised because my belt was too tight yesterday.
-- I know what you mean. I've got bruises all over my butt.
-- We shouldn't even be sitting down, because that will make it worse.
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chemystery
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« Reply #192 on: September 07, 2008, 12:53:43 PM » |
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Since we're well past the first day of the semester here, I figured I'd resurrect this thread for an intriguing conversation I overheard this morning between two female students:
-- My hipbone is bruised because my belt was too tight yesterday.
-- I know what you mean. I've got bruises all over my butt.
-- We shouldn't even be sitting down, because that will make it worse.
Ah, yes. The tragic too-tight belt syndrome. It's such a shame there is no way to prevent these symptoms. For example, loosening it, or pulling one's pants up properly and wearing it around one's waist instead of over one's butt. |
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selavy
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« Reply #193 on: September 07, 2008, 04:51:17 PM » |
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Not overheard, but told to me by a student the other day at the end of a class: "Wow, this class doesn't suck as much as I thought it would."
My response: "Ummm, okay, I guess I'll take that as a compliment. Thanks."
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llanfair
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« Reply #194 on: September 07, 2008, 07:37:40 PM » |
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Not overheard, but told to me by a student the other day at the end of a class: "Wow, this class doesn't suck as much as I thought it would."
My response: "Ummm, okay, I guess I'll take that as a compliment. Thanks."
I got that too! I was teaching the Enlightenment, and my student said, "Wow - this isn't nearly as boring as I was afraid it'd be." I just laughed and didn't tell her that I'd been afraid of exactly the same thing. |
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Because, you know, that stuff on the syllabus is like, in writing, and there are so many ways you can, like, read that, but when the guys who sit by you in class, like, you know, must know what's really going on, right? -- AmLitHist, channelling student
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