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February 8, 2004: Honorable Mentions

"They crucify vegetables?" - Andrea Lam, mishearing "cruciferous"
"The printer in the Technical Services room of the library was sentient. It hated orange, and it hated me." - Andrea Lam, on her Project
"You say something full of righteous fury. Then you hit them on the head." - Josh, on proper medieval kingship
"The Dutch get naked there too? How is a normal Soviet-American man supposed to handle that?" - Masha' uncle, Lyosha on nude beaches in Curacao
"Mr. Davis, are you harboring buffalo in your armpits?" - Sarah Rudy.
"I hate people not for the color of their skin, but for the content of their character." - Donna.
"Are you calling Walt Whitman a tuft of wool?" - Grace to Isaac.
"Dear God! A Democratic Democratic candidate?" - Julian, on Kerry having a more Democratic voting record than Ted Kennedy.
"Julia, I think Mr. Sherry is propositioning you." - Jennie.
"These were primitive times." - Julian, on 1921.
"Ooh, you're hot, Mr. Sherry." - Josh H.
"I think IUPAC needs to come out of Switzerland." - Will, on the chemical naming group giving silly names.
"If they come out of Switzerland, I'll fight them!" - Kraning, on IUPAC
"You were just like her. Except male." - Hoffman comparing a young Mr. Sherry to Irene.
"It's a poly-sulfur sulfurous polymer. I mean..." - Ms Jackman
"I’m tan, and I’m shiny." - Josh, on returning from Cancun
"We’re going to rekindle the fire within." - Ms. Jackman, on starting the thermochemistry unit in Chem II
"I love the bisexual bathroom!"- Dewey
"And now we have to massage this, as they call it, into the right form." - Mr. Sherry, on mathematical induction
"The perfect spider is a sign curve." - Lily
"You’re going to be one of those stand up comedians people throw tomatoes at." - Cameron, to Miller
"Jackson didn’t like anybody." - Mr. Harsanyi, on Andrew Jackson
"I am not hung over." - Ms. Jackman
"It is not my job to be encouraging." - Mr. Phillips
"I am the great American tragedy." - Julian Hyde
"I cannot be held accountable for things I said while talking to iced tea." - Joanna Rifkin
"If she had frozen she would have been a hopsicle!"- Dewey, referring to Joanna's escaped rabbit, often called "Hoppity"
"Dewey looks at her and says 'muff.'" - Joanna, referring to her rabbit
"The problem with Josh is that its hard to tune him." - Julian, on poking Josh
"It has a much sexier name." - Rhett, comparing the impulse-momentum theory to the work-energy theorem
"I don't want to damage my men." - Ms. Jackman, on why she doesn't keep pyridine, a chemical that sterilizes men, in her chemical supplies
"Never underestimate the power of a small person to drink a lot. But not Chao." - Grace
"'Do you think that you could draw me the mechanism for what's going on in the breathalyzer?' That’s a sure way to get thrown in jail." - Ms. Jackman
"I don’t want to throw pearls into the willowing pots of swine." - Mr. Vollrath, on his French 1 class