"Он взял хлеб, потом убежал чють-чють подальше и там стоял и кушал. Не друг, то есть, а белка."
Quotes
Interesting things said in my presence
most quoted with: Jonathan North Washington (25), other (4), Gabe Neer (2), Rianna (2), Galen Basse (1)
(BETA) Derek Gulas's quotes have been rated 19 times, with an average rating of 3.53/5
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[edit] added: 25 February 2010
[edit] added: 6 March 2008
(03:24:42) Derek: you know
(03:24:52) Derek: I have absolutely nothing against a woman being president but
(03:24:54) Derek: Hilary Clinton?
(03:24:59) Derek: does it have to be her??
[edit] added: 23 October 2007
(13:06:16) Derek: I wanted to say thanks for speaking Kazakh (etc) around me all the time
(13:06:41) Derek: I think it's giving me a big edge in my Uighur class right now
(13:07:28) Derek: Turkic seems familiar to me instead of something strange, which is something the other students I would say definitely lack ;)
[edit] added: 12 July 2007
Derek: "I think we should write in runes, and the British should write in Roman."
Jonathan: "What about the Australians?"
Derek: "… They can write in kanji."
[edit] added: 26 June 2007
(23:53:48) Derek: That's a really well preserved blade
(23:53:53) Derek: for how old it is
(23:56:13) [me]: it's metal.
(23:57:07) Derek: "it's metal" doesn't cut it
(23:57:12) Derek: because iron rusts
(23:57:18) Derek: and steel rusts really fast
(23:57:27) Derek: ha - doesn't cut it
(23:57:29) Derek: I made a funny
[edit] added: 28 May 2007
me: "Yeah, it's Low Germanic, but not Northern."
Derek: "Huh? Is it a language named after some city or something?"
me: "Nope, it's named after a continent."
Derek: "A continent?!"
me: "Yep. Go back to your room, continue grading, and in 30 seconds you'll figure it out and be like ‘Dammit!’"
(16:51:22) Derek: LOL
(16:51:24) Derek: you bastard
(16:52:04) [me]: told you :-P
(16:52:22) Derek: *shaking fist*
[edit] added: 15 May 2007
Chuck: "There's Low German forms, Middle High German forms, Upper High German forms, and even Anglo-Frisian forms. This is weird!"
Derek: "Maybe a non-native speaker wrote it."
Chuck: "Or they had some pretty heavy stuff back then."
[edit] added: 7 May 2007
"Well I'm gonna go watch atomic bombs. …Dude, they're pretty—it's too bad they suck."
[edit] added: 28 April 2007
Jonathan: "Look at all the different kinds of mould in there! There's white ones, black ones, grey ones, and green ones."
Derek: "And they're all living in harmony."
[edit] added: 26 April 2007
Derek: "Something about the word ‘Kyrgyz’ sounds agressive."
Jonathan: "What about [qr̩ˈʀz̩] sounds agressive?"
[edit] added: 23 April 2007
"I'm not like you. I got all these vowels from my parents… and some consonants from these Klingons."
[edit] added: 23 April 2007
Derek: "No, Joyce, what you should be saying is ‘[in effeminite voice] atashi.’"
Meghan: "Is that the female you?"
Derek: "No, that's the Hello Kitty me."
[edit] added: 23 April 2007
"Do not put your baby in front of my car."
[edit] added: 15 April 2007
me, holding a can of Mountain Dew: "You know what would probably be good? This and orange juice."
Derek: "I donno man...."
me: "I mean it's green and orange—how can you go wrong with… oh, wait."
[edit] added: 11 April 2007
Derek: [ftktp]!
Jonathan: "What's that?"
Derek: "Probably Berber."
[edit] added: 11 April 2007
Jonathan: "Maybe they just think that */p/ turned to /b/ in Germanic. But it only went half way."
Derek: "Yeah, that's how they got þorn."
[edit] added: 9 April 2007
Annex door creaks
Derek & Jonathan, in unison: "Ghosts!"
Derek: "Truth by concensus!"
[edit] added: 5 April 2007
(00:42:03) Derek: I found a way to explain language change to our students
(00:42:31) Derek: Languages start out cool and get less cool with time, unless the change involves gaining velars or uvulars
[edit] added: 21 March 2007
(00:31:27) [me]: btw, safeway's website claims that this one is 24hours
(00:31:32) [me]: is it sketchy to go there at 1am?
(00:31:39) Derek: yes
(00:31:47) Derek: you're probably a crack dealer
[edit] added: 21 March 2007
(22:39:59) [me]: like, Proto Turkic has very few colour words
...
(22:41:03) [me]: *sarg = yellow
(22:41:11) [me]: not sure where that's from, actually
(22:50:40) Derek: I went back in time and told them that word
[edit] added: 15 March 2007
"No, you see, it doesn't work that way—it's dark half the year, so you commit suicide, and the other half of the year, it's light, and you're dead."
[edit] added: 4 March 2007
Derek: "Blood sucks."
Jonathan: "Then it'd be a vampire, but blood can't be a vampire—then it'd be cannibalistic."
[edit] added: 4 March 2007
"I did have the dishes washed..."
[edit] added: 1 March 2007
"It was funny when Derek had a question, you could tell—it was like watching a puppy. ‘Got a morphology problem boy?’"
[edit] added: 28 February 2007
"Okay, look dude: one thigh, two thigh, butt, back."
[edit] added: 11 February 2007
Jonathan: "Mm, easy mac. I'm hungry. We don't have easy mac, do we?"
Derek: "No, but we have hard mac."
[edit] added: 12 February 2007
Girl at check-out: "You just want the bagel?"
Derek: "Yeah. But I want the stuff inside too. Is that okay?"
Girl at check-out: "Sure."
[edit] added: 23 January 2007
"Breton music is like Irish dance music with Iranian instruments."
[edit] added: 9 January 2007
(03:28:52) [me]: mkay, yeah, I need to pack
(03:29:03) Derek: psh
(03:29:04) Derek: whatever
(03:29:10) Derek: just throw it all in a ball
(03:29:14) Derek: duct tape it up
(03:29:19) Derek: and roll it on the plane
(03:29:30) Derek: if you tell them its a bomb, they work faster you know
[edit] added: 9 January 2007
(03:12:51) [me]: I think they decided the klingons weren't Russian or Chinese enough anymore and had to rethink a new race to fit that type of society
(03:13:07) Derek: yeah
(03:13:21) Derek: they started Russian-Mongols and ended up Vikings
[edit] added: 9 January 2007
(04:21:50) Derek: somebody took my magical woman attracting kitten and made a Russian postcard out of it?
[edit] added: 5 December 2006
Derek: "I can't wait 'til next week, man."
Jonathan: "Why's that?"
Derek: "'Cause it's all over then. It's kind of like not being able to wait until you're euthanised."
[edit] added: 17 November 2006
Jonathan: "People never write on your wall. They write on my wall all the time."
Derek: "Yeah, that's because you're friends with an entire country."
[edit] added: 14 November 2006
"But I just knew they'd be all like, 'Man, she stole our crack!'"
[edit] added: 17 November 2006
Jonathan: "I don't like the 373 bus as much as the 66 bus, because instead of dropping you off a block and a half from the house, it drops you off √50 blocks from the house."
Derek: "Uh, I think that's where my mother lives."
[edit] added: 9 November 2006
"Oh, cool! I got a lump on my arm. And it's turning colours."
[edit] added: 6 November 2006
"You can tell it's cold outside when humans start turning off the lights and watching something hot inside glow."
[edit] added: 27 October 2006
Jonathan: "A lot of people look like Galen today."
Derek: "Yep: Cartoons. Real people."
[edit] added: 24 October 2006
Derek: "Amy, you live in a boat."
Amy: "Yes, I do, and I was kept up last night because it was stormy."
Derek: "Oh, that'd be cool! Did you get sea-sick?"
[edit] added: 14 October 2006
"That's interesting: if you eat spicy food with the back of your mouth, the back part gets burned."
[edit] added: 14 October 2006
"Why is it that the Kazakh flag strikes me as Romulan somehow?"
[edit] added: 13 October 2006
Jonathan: "Hey, Derek, gonna get tested for rabies?"
Derek: "Yeah, I guess I should—I wouldn't want to infect the squirrels."
[edit] added: 9 October 2006
"Okay, be careful when you're going to the bathroom, cause we don't want toilet paper falling in the toilet."
[edit] added: 8 October 2006
Gabe: "When people tell me they're vegan, I just feel like shoving a steak down their throat."
Derek: "I'm vegan." [opens mouth]
[edit] added: 7 October 2006
Derek: "Agh!"
Rianna: "What's wrong with your spine?"
Derek: "It's made out of bones!"
[edit] added: 9 October 2006
Derek: "Look, cheerleaders."
Jonathan: "And they're not wearing their uniforms."
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[edit] added: 4 May 2006
Jonathan: "Why did the French decide to settle Louisiana? What were they thinking, with the bayous and the prehistorical aligator-looking thingies that eat you?"
Gabe: "Well, the French are frogs, right?"
Jonathan: "Well, they eat frogs."
Derek: "Maybe they were looking for Yoda."
[edit] added: 1 May 2006
"Positing *o is like positing Ident-Germanic and saying that among Uralic languages, Finnish has it most highly ranked."
[edit] added: 10 March 2006
"'How'? You're asking the wrong guy—I'm not a class-VII expert."