I'm going to hit you with the latest round of great professor comments now, before I start losing all my hair and freaking out over finals...hooray for learning!  I think! 
"You guys remember the uh...'rock star' Prince?  There are just no words for people like that.  Well, I guess he thought there were no words for him, because he wanted to stop using words for himself, he wanted to start using a symbol?  Remember that?  *pause*  There should be capital punishment for people like that."
"Think of verbs as a strawberry banana milkshake."
"I know that in this country you make brownies with marijuana."
"I know what you're thinking...my paper, the exit interview...is he insane?  That's not the right question.  I MIGHT be insane, but that's not the point."
"If you know your stuff, it'll be a breeze.  If you don't, it'll be a nightmare.  From which you'll never recover."
"I don't have a charm button."
"I mean, Schwarzenegger, when he was at his buffitudinest, didn't look like that."
"Nothing good comes of snow, and post-exam angst...and sledding.  *pause*  Have you guys read Ethan Frome?  Are you getting my references here?"
"Descartes says 'yes', Newton says, 'no way, dude.'"
[Prof's phone rings while I am reading a passage aloud]  "Oh my god, that's so embarassing.  *pause*  My sister's probably having her baby.  Continue."
I am going to be so weirdly sad when this semester is over.
Saturday, November 22, 2008
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How did "strawberry banana milkshake" come up in the first place?
ReplyDeleteIt's actually not totally insane. He meant that verbs have different "ingredients" - mode, tense and voice - and that you need to put them all together and blend them to conjugate them.
ReplyDeleteThat all being said, how he arrived at strawberry banana milkshakes to carry this metaphor, I do not know.