Saturday, October 04, 2008

You don't say

And the nominees for Line of the Year (thus far) 08-09 are:

• The energy on campus is so different in the summer. I like the fall quarter the best of all of them, though—at least there's still hope. —IT tech

• Don't take this the wrong way but you're not as big of a bitch as people said you were. —statistics student

• You lied. When people ask if they should take statistics with you I'm going to say, "No, Lee lies."—statistics student

Let's recall our other favorite lines from years past:

• I would rather put a gun to my head than take another class with Dr. Lee. —unknown student

• [to another math faculty] Don't take this the wrong way but you teach just like Lee. —precalculus student (for the third time)

Cast your votes in the comments. I'll post new ones as they are uttered.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I vote for the "Lee lies." If, as they say, statistics don't lie, then the appropriate response would then be "Statistics don't lie, but Lee does." Which brings up another point. Do the statistics that Lee teach(es?) lie by virtue of the fact that she teaches them? I think there is a mathematical answer to this of which I cannot conceive.

Ruth

Andrea said...

I think the Law of Two Negatives kick in at some point and a lier making a statement that is inherently a lie results in some modicum of truth.