| �What the hell are those little round orange-type things�clementines!� � Professor Nixon �The water�s kinda chewy.� � Professor Nixon �In the biggest wind farm in the U.S (in California I think) we are whacking birds off like crazy.� � Professor Nixon �If you suck all the water out of those streams to water your blueberries, it�s a pretty uncomfortable existence for the salmon; kinda like me in Grenada.� - Professor Nixon �With their new Jeeps, the mailmen were running over little children.� - Professor Nixon �You go the Rhode Island general assembly, which has a special committee, believe it or not, on potholes.� - Professor Nixon �There is a very thin line between trash disposal and reef creation.� - Professor Nixon (about turning old oil rigs into reefs) �Courts are not about fairness, get that through your heads.� - Professor Nixon �Can you shoot someone for taking lobster out of your lobster pot?� � student �This sounds legal, but it�s not really legal. This is what they tell you in Maine. A lot of fishermen in Maine believe it.� � Professor Nixon �We�re wrapping the world in fiber optic cable.� - Professor Nixon �Is there another word for beach nourishment?� � student �Well�some people call it stupid.� - Professor Nixon �Not very nice. Legal, not fair, not nice.� - Professor Nixon �The Army Corps of Engineers has its headquarters on Galveston Island. They have studied every kind of sea wall imaginable.� - Professor Nixon �Shooting someone in the back is never a good idea. So just as a review then: shoot in the front, not in the back.� - Professor Nixon �Do I have rights to the shore (all of it) if I approach by water?� � student �It depends on which state you are in. If you are in Rhode Island, I can tell you exactly what the law is because I WROTE IT!� - Professor Nixon �We had a great time and they [the dunes club] hated me� - Professor Nixon �I encourage you to test the law, but don�t exceed it and then use me as a reference.� - Professor Nixon �So if you want to do something really egregious like go for a walk on the beach, YOU CAN�T, that would be injurious. So, bring your gun.� - Professor Nixon �People are getting so good at rolling their houses back. It�s a whole industry, house rolling. They roll them back every year.� - Professor Nixon �You�ve gotten your grade back from the first quiz and you spot me walking in the crosswalk and you floor it. That would be Mensrea.� - Professor Nixon �I�ve only taught once before in my life and I had a 4th grader tell me I didn�t know what I was talking about.� � Mike Daly �I can�t rant along for 40 minutes like Professor Nixon does about something I didn�t even know existed.� � Mike Daly �Where would you go to get an ice berg?� � Dr. Husband � �STOP� squeal tires on pavement� � Dr. Husband �The bike loves me back. I have a relationship with these bikes.� � Dr. Husband �Anyway, a lot of people like birds.� � Dr. Wetherbee �And here is another octopus that�s on this guy�s face.� � Dr. Wetherbee �If I get that bear within the sights of my rifle�I will take that SOB out.� � Dr. Husband " 'Bad, yucky stuff' that's a technical term we use in geology." - Professor Nixon "But here's where it gets...sketchy." - Professor Nixon "Mayor Cianci, of course he's been mayor for about 100 years. Well, when he wasn't a talk-show host. But we won't talk about that. Those are the 'dark years.' " - Professor Nixon "The stuff that they're dredging from the surface has been described as 'black mayonnaise.' " - Professor Nixon " We could make alphabet soup out of OCG 123." - Professor Rahn "I know that first exercises are easy, but a 7 (out of 15) kinda sucks." - Professor Krauss "Most of the time, people in Oregon don't tan, they rust. The state animal is the slug." - Professor Nixon |