geonerd
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Do not take the bait
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« Reply #15 on: March 26, 2011, 06:33:00 PM » |
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"Is this the water?"
"Yes."
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« Reply #16 on: March 26, 2011, 09:13:03 PM » |
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"nothing says headed for the margins of society like learning to play the banjo"
No idea anymore who said it or had it as a sig line but it made me laugh---because it is oh, so true!
That was Sikora I think? I think she said something like "will play banjo for food. Will stop for money." I can't remember this second line as an official sig line, but someone definitely did have BTR's original line as a sig years ago and I, too, want to say that was Sikora, but RandyStevens also comes to mind. |
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If you haven't got either the anatomical or metaphorical balls to post your own question on a pseudonymous internet forum, then academia is the wrong job for you.
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polly_mer
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« Reply #17 on: March 26, 2011, 10:15:43 PM » |
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Your question is kind of like, "Hello. I'm new to Earth. Is there anything I should know?"
College is for losers. Become a plumber or a welder; those occupations can't be outsourced.
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If you haven't got either the anatomical or metaphorical balls to post your own question on a pseudonymous internet forum, then academia is the wrong job for you.
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« Reply #19 on: March 26, 2011, 10:42:57 PM » |
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I pimp my classes without pressure to do so, because my classes are frelling awesome.
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If you haven't got either the anatomical or metaphorical balls to post your own question on a pseudonymous internet forum, then academia is the wrong job for you.
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« Reply #20 on: March 27, 2011, 12:40:38 AM » |
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I prepare now for giant poisonous snake. It will be as big as Jabba the Hut. Thanks for the heads up.
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voxprincipalis
Foxaliciously Cinnamon-Scented (and Most Poetic)
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Has potentially infinite removable wallets
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« Reply #21 on: March 27, 2011, 06:36:21 AM » |
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Taken wildly out of context: Drinking a lot always helps.
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If you need me, I'll be hiding under a rock until mid-August. Try not to need me, unless you come bearing Chinese food.
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chaosbydesign
"I like to lyse bacteria. Did you know I'm utterly insane?"
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I'm doing Science and I'm still alive.
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« Reply #22 on: March 27, 2011, 02:10:45 PM » |
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The 7-Up can says it has antioxidants but shouldn't radicals be free?
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Seriously, I tried to lick my own face. Ah. Typical ivory tower pedanticalness.
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polly_mer
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« Reply #23 on: March 27, 2011, 02:18:36 PM » |
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Fight the good fight -- but learn how first.
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« Reply #24 on: March 27, 2011, 05:21:56 PM » |
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Profs will just bump their iTeach thingie against the student's iLearn thingie and the knowledge app will pass instantly between them.
Gives new meaning to student contact hours. |
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chaosbydesign
"I like to lyse bacteria. Did you know I'm utterly insane?"
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I'm doing Science and I'm still alive.
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« Reply #25 on: March 27, 2011, 06:06:37 PM » |
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Oh no you did not say that! |
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Seriously, I tried to lick my own face. Ah. Typical ivory tower pedanticalness.
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oldfullprof
Not really retired...
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Representation is not reproduction!
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« Reply #26 on: March 27, 2011, 06:30:33 PM » |
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Latest favorite: Fired for writing grant proposal for clothing-optional hottub in CHE clubhouse
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Someone please tell me to start entering data, rather than screwing off here.
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« Reply #27 on: March 28, 2011, 01:07:33 PM » |
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With students, as with 3 year old children, sometimes the simplest answers work the best (Occam's Mom's Razor?).
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I am an insanely elegant, super classy poor white, for the record.
I love everyone here!
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« Reply #28 on: March 28, 2011, 04:34:58 PM » |
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Aww. How nice. You dressed up for us in your very fanciest crazypants.
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I think this thread is going well. Don't you think this thread is going well?
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« Reply #29 on: March 29, 2011, 12:35:43 PM » |
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I think the real definition of sane people is that they know what looks crazy and how to keep it out of their application materials. They may be knitting their dog hair into prize-winning therapeutic comfort objects; they may be resenting that people from category X unfairly took all the jobs and are secretly undermining democracy; they may be trading numerological secrets with people from Mars; but they know enough to keep it off their applications.
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