"That's like pulling an assault rifle on a horde of bunnies! A horde of bunnies in a cage!"
Quotes
Interesting things said in my presence
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heard: 2 October 2006
[edit] added: 7 October 2006
[edit] added: 7 October 2006
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heard: 7 October 2006
[edit] added: 7 October 2006
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[edit] added: 7 October 2006
Derek: "Agh!"
Rianna: "What's wrong with your spine?"
Derek: "It's made out of bones!"
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heard: 22 September 2006
[edit] added: 23 September 2006
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[edit] added: 23 September 2006
"...and some students might actually understand it, but in such a convoluted way that they just end up confusing the other students they're trying to explain it to."
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heard: 21 September 2006
[edit] added: 23 September 2006
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[edit] added: 23 September 2006
"Most of the students just want to learn what's going to be on the test, get their grade, and then they want to move on to finance, or business, or biology—you know, whatever isn't linguistics."
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heard: 15 September 2006
[edit] added: 15 September 2006
[comment] [rate] 4/5
[edit] added: 15 September 2006
"When you are forced to read books for school, other pastimes besides reading become that much more appealing."
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heard: 13 September 2006
[edit] added: 12 September 2006
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[edit] added: 12 September 2006
00:52:28 [anon]: you should try to watch a portuguese speak ... seriously. old people are impossible to understand because they are all drool-y and then they don't move their mouths, and you can't understand a word... it sounds like muttering; just a wall of sound
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heard: 11 September 2006
[edit] added: 11 September 2006
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[edit] added: 11 September 2006
Hannah: "You have to come taste the icing to see if it's still any good."
Jonathan: "Why do I have to come taste the icing?"
Hannah: "Because the Reeses bits are old."
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heard: 11 September 2006
[edit] added: 11 September 2006
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[edit] added: 11 September 2006
21:00:07 [Aaron]: can i just skip from now 'til when i have tenure?
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heard: 6 September 2006
[edit] added: 6 September 2006
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[edit] added: 6 September 2006
22:05:17 [Jess]: guess what i learned today
22:05:26 [Jonathan]: what?
22:05:36 [Jess]: the difference between competence and performance~!!!
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22:05:53 [Jonathan]: so what's the difference?
22:06:29 [Jess]: narrow-minded wanna-be scientist linguists and bullshitty humanitarian science-doesn't-exist anthropologists?
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heard: 27 August 2006
[edit] added: 1 September 2006
[comment] [rate] 4/5
[edit] added: 1 September 2006
1c a song? That explains the pricing of Apple hardware---somewhere in their books, they're confusing dollars and cents!
in an e-mail, upon learning that you can buy CDs of 99 local music videos for about $1 in Kyrgyzstan
money, confusion, technology, computers, SSSR, non-p.c.ness, puns, kyrgyz
