DUKE
February 5, 2003
"Once you get a penguin in a headlock, it's all over!"
(Debating the outcome of a fight between a penguin and a midget...)
(One of the many interesting things heard in K-Ville)
June 10, 2003
Wendy (ATH): "I've never vacuum-packed a lemur before."
Jake: "How are you today, Kelly?"
Kelly: "I'm a happy duck."
Jake: "How so?"
Kelly: "Quack?"
Jake: "(fair enough)"
February 28, 2003
Wendy: "Yay, got a new marker!"
Kelly: "Does it smell like marker?"
March, 2003
Kelly: "They make my hands smell like feet."
(her wrist guards)
December 6, 2002
Wendy: "What are you doing?"
Ryan: "I'm eating cheese."
Karen (since Ryan was clearly NOT eating cheese): "Eating virtual cheese?"
Ryan: "Eating cheese is a state of mind."
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November 14, 2002
Stacey: "If you guys reproduced your children would be angry."
Chris: "If David reproduced with anybody his children would still be angry."
June 13, 2003
Rob: "They are collecting napalm, just go."
(referring to Tristan and Katie)
June 10, 2003
Wendy (ATH): "It's hard to get terribly attached to a hermit crab."
August 28, 2002
Joe: "This book is better than Nyquil."
(referring to The Origin of Species)
(discussing how to get to an obscure building on campus)
Joe: "I got there once. It was wild!
September 23, 2002
Rob: "Yeah, pirate bars!"
(Speaking about the origins of "watch your p's and q's)
September 2, 2002
While in a seminar discussing that a rock may have some qualities of life but not all,
Chris: "And a flashlight only has one or two!...At best"
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November 14, 2002
Jason: "Dan's bed is like kitten genocide"
June 13, 2003
Gen: "Have you played the game 'you lose?'.....I played six hands of it..."
October 10, 2002
Prof. Surin (in an 'of course' sort of tone): "Well, they're Martians!"
February 28, 2003
GeofJacoby: There were orchids in 2A last year (as there are this year I believe). Claire, Peter and I had a habit of playing catch in the room. Hence, at one point when catch turned into something more like dodgeball, I exclaimed "this can only end in pain and a dead orchid."
GeofJacoby: as it turned out, the orchid survived. :-)
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March 22, 2003
(a no parking sign has been stuck in the quad in the middle of the night.)
Karen: "Hey, look. Some drunk person thought it would be a good idea to steal a no parking sign."
Kelly: "And thought it would be an even better idea to put it in the middle of the quad."
Karen: "Alcohol makes people GENIUSES!!!"
October 8, 2002
Matt (FOCUS): (when asked whether he'd done a paper that morning)
"If by this morning you mean before I went to bed."
April 25, 2003
Tierney: "And the Lord said 'let there be Hell' and there was Chemistry, and he saw that it was Eeevil."
September 3, 2002
Professor Humphreys: "My computer doesn't translate cuniform."
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Mike (Spanish): "I'll escribir."
Leah (Spanish): "I eat grass?"
(Playing a game where she had to guess what we'd written about on the board behind her)
April 27, 2003
Abhijit: "What would you think if I told you that I hang around with someone who randomly bursts into uncontrollable fits of giggles, refers to herself in the third person, and calls herself Satan?"
November 15, 2002
Professor Bryant (submitted by Wendy): "I looked at it, and then I said, 'oh boy, that's the difference between me and Archimedes.'"
said to Wendy: "integrals and primes during a break! what do you do when you're working?"
Wendy: "integrals and primes in a less amusing manner."
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(from Wendy)
Inessa: "See it? Paul said it was a chipmunk and Wendy thought it was a mole. I, on the other hand, think there's a very good chance that it is a baby armadillo."
Josh: "You mean that squirrel right there?"
September 5, 2002
Matt (FOCUS): "I take offense on behalf of the amoeba."
November 11, 2002
Jessica's away message: "Tchadensis, tugenesis, ramidus, anamensis, afarensis, africanus, aethiopicus, boisei, robustus...my head is going to explode. I mean, who really even cares about any of this? Let me check. Yeah, that would definately not be me."
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