October 19, 2003: Honorable Mentions
Enjoy!"Eventually I will kick [that wire] and break my nose. and I will sue the school." - Mr. Riahi
"You ODed on Gatorade!" - Larry, to James Palmer
"I'm from New York. Somehow, I was pulled into rooting for the Red Sox, against my natural instincts. I feel dirty now." - Mr. Conolly
"It's not a lobotomy, it's a stab to the head. Lobotomies are more thought out... or they should be." - Julian
"This door needs serious psychological help." - Roberto Poli, on the door to his apartment
"We just lost another one." - Mr. Young after some visitors witnessed him dropping a chair
"No one failed; everyone is getting into college. Except Alex." - Ms. Jackman on an Organic Chemisty test. Alex is the only junior in Orgo.
"Don't you find it funny that in lines of poetry the meter of a line is measured in feet?" - Miller
"Stop the finger fencing." - Becky
"It's always good to talk about cleavage." - Ms. Jackman on Oxidative Cleavage in Organic Chemistry
"Then we must forge ahead without Ben or Mariah.and when Ben comes in I'll throw a marker at him or something." - Mr. Young
"Joanna, we're just barely nerdy boys." - Dewey
"I'll be fine by lunch, I just need to mourn for a little while." - Kominsky, on the red sox loosing the playoffs
"1492/Columbus sailed the ocean blue/and Spain kicked out the Muslims and the Jews." - Mr. Young
"Chalkboards are going to be antique in 15 years - you heard it here first guys." - Orlin
"[The couch] is like the Chanukah story; it was supposed to go away, but it's not." - Gabe
"It's slightly masochistic fresh breath." - Roz
"Be careful with whom you snuggle. Remember: you're snuggling with everyone they've snuggled with before." - Miller
"I don't like phones. They're so... phony. Oh! Yes! Boo yah!" - Daniel
"Have I ever wronged you? No. So you can't say that all your friends are bastards. Now stop talking shit about them behind their backs when they're not around to be insulted by it." - Josh Stroh
"It's great when you bomb places - you actually learn where they are." - Ms. Grant
"In regular math this is called a discontinuity. Here, I will accept the term 'hole.'" - Mr. Phillips
"I would find Reilly's fake accent offensive, if only I knew what planet it was from." -Orlin
"Hey, pal, too much hair. Gay guys would take that off in a second." - Roz's dad, to Damon, imagining him on the show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
"Growing boys are now very fond of lesbians." - Exhibition debater from Hotchkiss
And now for your conversational pleasure:
"I'm a little worried about how behind we are." - Mr. Young
"But we're miles ahead of the other class!" - Joanna
"But we're miles behind the rest of the universe." - Mr. Young
You'll notice that there are a lot and in the most recent website update, I discourage a lot of Honorable Mentions. Let's just say I was feeling benevolent, and catagorizing them seemed like a lot less work than trying to cut them down. Until next time,
~Micheline "the management" Heal
