Dan the Professor

Farang

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I am an American attending university in Thailand. One of my professors is Dan, a middle-aged Thai guy with a British accent. I'm not sure exactly what Dan is qualified to teach, but this semester I'm in my third course with him as the professor. This time around, realizing note-taking and study weren't necessary, I began to pass the three and a half hours of lecture time by writing down the interesting quotes of Dan. He doesn't stop talking.. for the entire 3 1/2 hours, and I've got more where this came from.


ON TURTLES:
?Does he have armor . . . like knights in shining armor??

ON ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION:
?The environment can take more of our CDs, our DVDs . . . ?

ON A POWERPOINT SLIDE SHOWING A MOOSE IN THE LIFE CYCLE:
?Why does this moose go in a cycle??

ON MOTHER NATURE'S CONSTANT BITCHING:
?The environment said ?No, I cannot take more of you in this room.??

ON BIRTH:
?Turtles . . . eggs idnit? Comes out of eggs??

ON INSECT IMPERIALISM:
?Flies go to Europe by ships.?

WORDS OF WARNING:
?We may not be eaten by lions or tyrannosaurus rex, but we may be hit by AIDS.?

?Pythons can consume small children.?

CROSS-SPECIES DIPLOMACY:
?Our feather friends?the birds.?

ON...ON SOMETHING:
?Is it a nebula? Is it a star? Fish, yea!?

DAN THE MASOCHIST:
?Small little fish you can squish them in your fingers!?

ON THE OWL'S ABILITY TO TURN ITS HEAD:
?Not 360 . . . like some magician could do.?

ON GLOBAL DEFENSE FROM EXTRA TERRESTIALS:
?If aliens came down and started hunting humans . . . we?ve never been hunted but if that were to happen . . . ?

DAN THE PHILOSOPHER:
?A bear in winter may grow a lot of fur.?

DAN THE NATURALIST:
?Like chicken . . . only flap wings for about 30 seconds max I think.?

ON PANDAS:
?What they do to the bamboo, the bamboo will probably do back to them.?

ON THE BONSAI INVASION:
?What do you think would constrain the bonsai tree from expanding its frontier to the seashore??

ON DECAPITATION:
?You don?t get .3 of a human being like a leg, or an arm.?
 

Lonyo

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DAN THE MASOCHIST:
?Small little fish you can squish them in your fingers!?

Do you mean sadist?
 

Farang

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Originally posted by: Lonyo
DAN THE MASOCHIST:
?Small little fish you can squish them in your fingers!?

Do you mean sadist?

Yes... this is why you shouldn't try to pick up vocabulary from Kill Bill.

And another quote

"Like some kind of robot, give me pleasure."
 

thecoolnessrune

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I'm in Biology right now and I'm trying to keep a straight face and absorb this info on DNA mutations but dam this made my day!! :laugh:
 

DarkThinker

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Dude this man has perfected multi-track brain technology.


ON TURTLES:
?Does he have armor . . . like knights in shining armor?? --->:laugh:
 

AnitaPeterson

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Honestly, I don't know why you're so riled up... Haven't you heard the expression "feathered/furry friend(s)" before?

Maybe you don't "get" foreign humour? Some of the stuff he says may be truisms, but remember that a) the facts are right and b) they're probably used rhetorically, anyway.

I'm also concerned about your lack of differentiation between "sadist" and "masochist".

Honestly, you're the one coming across as an ignorant, much more so than your prof...
 

JohnCU

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Originally posted by: AnitaPeterson
Honestly, I don't know why you're so riled up... Haven't you heard the expression "feathered/furry friend(s)" before?

Maybe you don't "get" foreign humour? Some of the stuff he says may be truisms, but remember that a) the facts are right and b) they're probably used rhetorically, anyway.

I'm also concerned about your lack of differentiation between "sadist" and "masochist".

Honestly, you're the one coming across as an ignorant, much more so than your prof...

go away.
 

AnitaPeterson

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Originally posted by: JohnCU
Originally posted by: AnitaPeterson
Honestly, I don't know why you're so riled up... Haven't you heard the expression "feathered/furry friend(s)" before?

Maybe you don't "get" foreign humour? Some of the stuff he says may be truisms, but remember that a) the facts are right and b) they're probably used rhetorically, anyway.

I'm also concerned about your lack of differentiation between "sadist" and "masochist".

Honestly, you're the one coming across as an ignorant, much more so than your prof...

go away.

nah, you're too much fun.
 

DarkThinker

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Originally posted by: AnitaPeterson
Originally posted by: JohnCU
Originally posted by: AnitaPeterson
Honestly, I don't know why you're so riled up... Haven't you heard the expression "feathered/furry friend(s)" before?

Maybe you don't "get" foreign humour? Some of the stuff he says may be truisms, but remember that a) the facts are right and b) they're probably used rhetorically, anyway.

I'm also concerned about your lack of differentiation between "sadist" and "masochist".

Honestly, you're the one coming across as an ignorant, much more so than your prof...

go away.

nah, you're too much fun.

You know what, that's it, you guys are going on TIME OUT NOW!

EDIT:
Well that didn't work, where are my Mod powers when I really need them :|
 

Farang

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Originally posted by: AnitaPeterson
Honestly, I don't know why you're so riled up... Haven't you heard the expression "feathered/furry friend(s)" before?

Maybe you don't "get" foreign humour? Some of the stuff he says may be truisms, but remember that a) the facts are right and b) they're probably used rhetorically, anyway.

I'm also concerned about your lack of differentiation between "sadist" and "masochist".

Honestly, you're the one coming across as an ignorant, much more so than your prof...

This has nothing to do with foreign humor, he most (if not all) of these he is not attemping humor. He just blurts this stuff out because he talks for three and a half hours and by the end the messages in his brain start misfiring.

Yes, I'm very ignorant because of my misuse of a relatively obscure word in the English language. Honestly, I think you need to lighten up.

If I get a chance I'll post some more of these, I don't even think most of the quotes in the OP would make his "Best Of . . ." collection.
 

irishScott

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ROFL send him here (University of Delaware). I need a good professor for the Spring Semester. :D

:thumbsup: :laugh: