Professor Quotes

State of [this] Blog

2006-05-26T09:00:00.000-04:00

Read what will be happening with this blog from here on out.

If you are a professor, and find any quote that's been attributed to you to be inaccurate or potentially harmful, please email me.

on reading for class

2005-12-11T15:11:00.000-05:00

"And I'm sure you have all been keeping up with the reading this semester...?"

one student: "Ha."
(entire class laughs.)

-Prof. Wendy Robinson, Comm 371

on paper kites?

2005-12-11T15:09:00.001-05:00

"We're going to have an end of the semester party...but no alcoholic drinks, no profanity, no paper kites."

-Prof. Wendy Robinson, Comm 371

on James Bond

2005-12-11T15:09:00.000-05:00

"If you're not a white, WASPy kind of guy, you won't relate to Bond very well."

-Prof. Wendy Robinson, Comm 371

on shoe fetishes

2005-12-11T15:04:00.000-05:00

"Let's say I have a shoe fetish...I'm aroused by your feet, Brad [a GSI]."

-Prof. Wendy Robinson, Comm 371

on sheep

2005-12-01T00:36:00.000-05:00

"They shave sheep in a way that's bad. [long pause.....] Sounds like a bad joke...baaaaaaaaaaaaad."

-Prof. Wendy Robinson, Comm 371

on Deep Throat [the film]

2005-11-08T17:07:00.000-05:00

[reading the tagline from the movie poster for Deep Throat] "How far does a girl have to go to untangle her tingle? I don't even know what that means."

-Prof. Rob King, Film & Video 372

on defining ourselves

2005-11-08T17:06:00.000-05:00

"We don't define ourselves on that bowel movement we had before class."

-Prof. Rob King, Film & Video 372

on orgies

2005-11-05T18:56:00.000-05:00

prof: "C'mon guys, when you get invited to an orgy, what do you do??"
student: "They give out invitations?!"
prof: "Well...you have to be on the list."

-Prof. Silke Weineck, German 383

submitted by megan.

on Emeril

2005-10-26T22:44:00.000-04:00

"How many of you watch Emeril?......BAM!...hahahahahahahahaha."

-Prof. Wendy Robinson, Comm 371

xated r

2005-10-26T02:07:00.000-04:00

"Does anyone know why this film was rated X? ... [waits for reply] ... I mean, it doesn't have any nudal frontity, right!? ... I always say that wrong."

-Prof. P. Bauland, Film & Video 331

submitted by GSG.

on TiVo

2005-10-24T21:19:00.000-04:00

"Most philosophers will say there's no such thing as an original idea, but I think TiVo is pretty good."

-GSI Trish Rich, Philosophy 359

submitted by marty.

on fetishism

2005-10-20T16:20:00.000-04:00

"Fetishism is something we'll go into next week so bring your whips and leather boots."

-Prof. Rob King, Film & Video 372

on reading

2005-10-12T15:05:00.000-04:00

"How many of you did the readings today?"
[no one raises their hand]
"Oook."

-Prof. Wendy Robinson, Comm 371

on looking back

2005-10-12T15:02:00.000-04:00

"We're looking to the past, not the future."

-Prof. Wendy Robinson, Comm 371

on genocide

2005-10-12T15:00:00.000-04:00

"There are genocides going on all the time...sometimes we don't love each other."

-Prof. Wendy Robinson, Comm 371

on Jennifer Garner, in Alias

2005-10-06T12:00:00.000-04:00

"She goes as a whore most of the time right? I apologize for not being very well versed on the show."

Prof. Dara Greenwood, Comm 381

on homosexuality

2005-09-28T15:00:00.000-04:00

[posed like a question] "No one in here yet has talked about whether they're gay or not or whether they've had experiences...."
[no one raises their hand]

-Prof. Wendy Robinson, Comm 371

on a student's last name

2005-09-26T15:03:00.000-04:00

"Dinges, like the crabs....that is, the ones you eat..."

-Prof. Wendy Robinson, Comm 371

on life

2005-09-26T15:00:00.000-04:00

"It doesn't get any better from here."

-Prof. Wendy Robinson, Comm 371

on smoking

2005-09-08T16:00:00.000-04:00

"...maybe like a post-coital cigarette."

Prof. Rob King. Film & Video 372

Welcome!

2005-09-07T12:00:00.000-04:00

Welcome to Professor Quotes! Inspired by the ingeniuous professors at the University of Michigan who are continually keeping me on my feet in class with (perhaps unintentionally) hilarious quotes from lectures/class. Similar to Overheard in Ann Arbor, this is a community site where anyone can (and is encouraged!) to submit quotes heard in class from professors/instructors/GSIs/lecturers - basically any teacher.

So let's start hearing what hilarity you heard...