isotope
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« Reply #60 on: November 20, 2009, 11:30:25 PM » |
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My students have never seen Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I try to point out how that mountain is a volcanic plug, but I get blank stares.
Wait, are you one of my sockpuppets? I just showed that slide today and got the same reaction. Even after going "Doo doo doo doo dooooooooo." Ha! I've done the same thing! Then I say something about communicating with aliens with the Simon game. Crickets. |
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There is nothing more metal than riding in a rocket ship shaped like a guitar. Except for maybe " the lightning." "Dr. Isotope, you sure do talk about poop a lot." -- student |
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« Reply #61 on: November 20, 2009, 11:36:18 PM » |
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Stonewashed jeans. My husband reports that his students have no clue what stonewashed jeans are.
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« Reply #62 on: November 20, 2009, 11:40:18 PM » |
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My students have never seen Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I try to point out how that mountain is a volcanic plug, but I get blank stares.
Wait, are you one of my sockpuppets? I just showed that slide today and got the same reaction. Even after going "Doo doo doo doo dooooooooo." Oh man, that's totally me. I sing the whole darn song and they look at me like I'm one of the aliens. Except that they have no idea it's about aliens. Sad, sad, sad. How the heck do you multi-quote here anyhow? I wanted to throw a bone to isotope for the Simon thing. That's awesome. |
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« Reply #63 on: November 20, 2009, 11:44:45 PM » |
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How the heck do you multi-quote here anyhow? I wanted to throw a bone to isotope for the Simon thing. That's awesome.
Just go to the post you want below the reply box and click "Insert Quote." |
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"A pun is primâ facie an insult to the person you are talking with. It implies utter indifference to or sublime contempt for his remarks, no matter how serious." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Hedgie loves to read. |
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« Reply #64 on: November 20, 2009, 11:47:01 PM » |
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How the heck do you multi-quote here anyhow? I wanted to throw a bone to isotope for the Simon thing. That's awesome.
Just go to the post you want below the reply box and click "Insert Quote." Ha! Got it! Thanks, GH. |
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« Reply #65 on: November 21, 2009, 12:26:42 AM » |
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Since you all liked the Gilligan one, here's another classic:
Carol Burnett show spoofing "Gone With the Wind" - specifically the scene where she comes down
the stairs wearing the curtains - with the curtain rod protruding out across the back of her shoulders.
"I saw it in a window and couldn't resist it"
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« Reply #66 on: November 21, 2009, 01:17:23 AM » |
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"Land shark!"
Candygram. But honestly I liked the samurai skits better. Samurai optometrist, samurai ice cream store. Chopping the second scoop off the cone with the sword when the customer only wanted one scoop. Chopping the tortoiseshell frames off of the tortoise.... |
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« Reply #67 on: November 21, 2009, 01:24:14 AM » |
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cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger.
Sigh. They won't get it.
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« Reply #68 on: November 21, 2009, 01:27:12 AM » |
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Sesame Street, old school.
Yesterday I found myself saying "Yep, yep yep" to a group of students in response to their questions, and added "Uh Huh, uh huh" after. No one had any idea what I was doing.
HA! This is even better than the Pieta joke! (I love it, though, Rowan) Mine have recently not understood: "Nah-gonna-do-it" Julie, Cruise Director Madonna's Cone Bra Gilda Radner as Edith Ann Every Sperm is Sacred "Read my lips: there will be no extra credit" You look mahvelous, absolutely mahvelous! |
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« Reply #69 on: November 21, 2009, 02:06:40 AM » |
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So far mine have made me feel old (at 28) by not knowing:
Sonic the hedgehog
Freddie Mercury/Queen
Space Invaders
The War of the Worlds (okay, not old, but you'd expect at least a few 18 year olds in a science majors classroom to be familiar with HG Wells)
Richard Dawkins (again, not old, but surely you'd have to have had your head buried in the sand for the last decade not to know who he is).
Yours?
When I first read this I mistook Richard Dawkins for Richard Dawson, the TV game show host and star of The Running Man with Arnold. Of course my students don't know Dawson, Match Game, Press Your Luck (big bucks! no whammies!) or other vintage game shows (Paul Lynde? Hollywood Squares what?) And they have no idea how muscular Arnold was in his steroid-using prime. |
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"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." -- Woodrow Wilson
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« Reply #70 on: November 21, 2009, 07:48:50 AM » |
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Also, just earlier this week, another Historical Marker That Sets Me Apart From Them (it sits on the shelf next to the fall of the Berlin Wall): I am apparently the only one left who remembers when we started saying Beijing instead of Peking.
I totally missed the Calcutta/ Mumbai thing, too. And I figure geography was much easier when their were fewer countries in the Balkans, Eastern Europe and Western Asia. Isn't Mumbai the new "Bombay"? I remember saying both of these the old way, but I couldn't tell you when we changed to the "new" names. Kind of like Burma/Myanmar. |
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Alas, greatness and meaning are rarely coterminous with popular familiarity.
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biomancer
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« Reply #71 on: November 21, 2009, 10:10:15 AM » |
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Every year, fewer and fewer of my students have seen Raiders of the Lost Ark. Which is too bad, because that Nazi face-melting scene is how I explain the idea that there are certain divine things that human beings are not meant to know. Or pry the lid off of.
I was quite relieved this term that the students knew what I was talking about when I used RotLA in reference to the fact that the heart can control its own beating, and thus the scene where the priest pulls the heart out of the guy's chest and it keeps beating is actually somewhat scientifically accurate. Not only did they recognize the scene, but one student commented that, clearly, the scientific accuracy ended there, as the guy couldn't still be alive for his decent into the fire pit, and that burning his body wouldn't cause the heart (held in the priest's hand) to catch fire as well. |
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Clueless people can be dangerous. The acidic environment they can spread often needs to be neutralized, and humor is basic. - Dellaroux
Viruses invented people so that people would invent airplanes so viruses could get around better. - R. Duda
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isotope
A Ronnie James Dio Approved
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« Reply #72 on: November 21, 2009, 10:24:12 AM » |
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Every year, fewer and fewer of my students have seen Raiders of the Lost Ark. Which is too bad, because that Nazi face-melting scene is how I explain the idea that there are certain divine things that human beings are not meant to know. Or pry the lid off of.
I was quite relieved this term that the students knew what I was talking about when I used RotLA in reference to the fact that the heart can control its own beating, and thus the scene where the priest pulls the heart out of the guy's chest and it keeps beating is actually somewhat scientifically accurate. Not only did they recognize the scene, but one student commented that, clearly, the scientific accuracy ended there, as the guy couldn't still be alive for his decent into the fire pit, and that burning his body wouldn't cause the heart (held in the priest's hand) to catch fire as well. Temple of Doom, actually. Still a great movie. I should have my students calculate the rate of water flow through the mines and figure out how fast the mine car had to go in order to beat the water to the outside. Seems like more of a physics problem, but I bet we covered enough water flow calculations to do it. |
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There is nothing more metal than riding in a rocket ship shaped like a guitar. Except for maybe " the lightning." "Dr. Isotope, you sure do talk about poop a lot." -- student |
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« Reply #73 on: November 21, 2009, 10:47:35 AM » |
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Total silence when I said something along the lines of collagen not stretching unless you're Reed Richards.
AHAHAHAHA!! *wipes tears* That's awesome. Thanks for the laugh! |
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« Reply #74 on: November 21, 2009, 11:09:50 AM » |
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Total silence when I said something along the lines of collagen not stretching unless you're Reed Richards.
AHAHAHAHA!! *wipes tears* That's awesome. Thanks for the laugh! That's when you tap the microphone and say "is this thing on?" |
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I don't have time to read what I wrote!
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