An Explorer Named Jessa ([info]faerykat) wrote in [info]oberlin,
@ 2004-08-27 13:44:00
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more professor quotes
definitely a great idea! and i've got some great ones,

--"Imagine that the op-ed pages of the New York Times were witty." --Jewish Studies prof. Abe Socher
--"[Martin] Buber was the first great tree-hugger of the twentieth century." --Prof. Socher

from Psych prof. Al Porterfield
--"Wealth is not always a plus. Nonetheless I'd like to give it a try."
--"What do women want? They want a penis. But they settle for a baby."
--"Psychoanalysis has more lives than a cat."
--"Show me a person without physiology and I'll show you a person without anything. [pause] Or I won't show you a person."
--"Those of you who aren't here... umm... I don't know what to say to you."
--during a discussion on the side effectsof psychoactive drugs: "Let's take tricyclic antidepressants--no, let's not take them...!"

--"Well, England kind of looks like a sock!" --English prof. Jen Bryan

from Classics prof. Kirk Ormand
--"[Aphrodite] was the divine slut."
--paraphrasing Classical love poetry: "Hey, you're cute, why don't you jump in the sack with me?"
--on psychoanalysis (and in a bad Freud-style accent): "If you dream about dentists it's obvious that you want to have sex with your mother."
--"Chickens and sex just go together like popcorn and movies."
--"The gods are never erect."
--"So the question is, is this an amorous pot?"
--"Did we run into any oral sex in Greece?"
--"Mainly... I think of Rome as just like Greece, only a lot more uptight."
--"The Romans wanted to be James Bond; the Greeks wanted to do James Bond."
--"You would all be like sea fans before the force of my rhetoric."

and there are quite a few more quotes from Kirk, but I won't post them unless anyone wants to see them.



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[info]currentlee
2004-08-27 11:03 am UTC (link)
ooo! ooo!
i do!
::giggles::
i loved that class...

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[info]kestrel127
2004-08-27 11:06 am UTC (link)
Kirk Ormand is fantastic! POST MORE!

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[info]maiortrud
2004-08-27 11:08 am UTC (link)
haha i kept a big running list of kirk and TVN quotes. oh classics.

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[info]merikus
2004-08-27 11:19 am UTC (link)
A friend of mine has collected all the good quites, from students and professors, she's heard at oberlin, here:

http://snow.prohosting.com/taurus38/obiequotes.html

Furthermore, she has an entire page devoted to quotes from Visiting Professor of Classics Hedrick, who, in my opinion, is the funniest man to ever teach at Oberlin College:

http://snow.prohosting.com/taurus38/hedrick.html

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[info]sweet_hermia
2004-08-27 01:24 pm UTC (link)
The more Kirk, the better.

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