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Lately for some reason profs have been particularly hilarious:
English
Today our overhead projector was being stupid and it was driving Prof Schacker nuts. For some reason it was vibrating and the text she had on it was small enough so that the vibrations were blurring it. So here she is desperately doing everything to try and fix it [she actually hit it which was hilarious in itself] and then she exclaims [while laughing and smiling broadly as per usual mind you] 'Oh I hate when this happens, it makes me so grumpy in the morning!' Does she even have the genetic capability of being grumpy?
Classics [night class]
Last Tuesday Prof O'Cleirigh was giving us yet another of his dynamic and action-packed lectures [I think one of the only reasons why this is funny is because his lectures are neither dynamic nor action-packed - it breaks up the monotony in other words]. He was talking about prodigies which are basically like omens, unnatural occurences that the Romans thought were predictive of the future. So he was reading out, as an example, one taken from a particular year and he came to this one when a three month old baby was said to have cried 'Triumph!' in the middle of a marketplace. He looked up at us and giving us his trademark laugh [ie he opens his mouth and squints but no sound comes out - it's hilarious trust me] says 'He probably just got a cookie or something!' It's gems like that that make me endure a 3 hour night class with him ^^.
Classics [day class]
Now for starters, Prof Matthews tends to be funny on a regular basis. He has this ridiculous amount of random knowledge packed into his brain so we get tidbits from him every now and again [for instance: did you know that the Romans sometimes outfitted the gladiators in these coats that would spontaneously burst into flames? neither did we until Matthews tolds us about 'em!]. So last week he was talking about the triremes which were there huge ships used by the Greek navies. Triremes needed three levels of rowers in order to operate: the thalamites [lowest level], the zygytes [middle level] and the thramites [upper level]. The explaination of the zygytes went something like this:
Matthews: So the second row of rowers were called the zygytes and they sat just above the thalamites. But they weren't positioned one rower directly above another, the zygytes were offset slightly in front of the thalamites. Just to give you a better idea of how the situation was set up, Aristophanes [a comic playwrite] is known to have said that the zygytes knew well how to fart in the faces of the thalamites.
Class: ::collective 'ewwww'-ing::
I'm really gonna miss him when he retires this at the end of this semester.
English
Today our overhead projector was being stupid and it was driving Prof Schacker nuts. For some reason it was vibrating and the text she had on it was small enough so that the vibrations were blurring it. So here she is desperately doing everything to try and fix it [she actually hit it which was hilarious in itself] and then she exclaims [while laughing and smiling broadly as per usual mind you] 'Oh I hate when this happens, it makes me so grumpy in the morning!' Does she even have the genetic capability of being grumpy?
Classics [night class]
Last Tuesday Prof O'Cleirigh was giving us yet another of his dynamic and action-packed lectures [I think one of the only reasons why this is funny is because his lectures are neither dynamic nor action-packed - it breaks up the monotony in other words]. He was talking about prodigies which are basically like omens, unnatural occurences that the Romans thought were predictive of the future. So he was reading out, as an example, one taken from a particular year and he came to this one when a three month old baby was said to have cried 'Triumph!' in the middle of a marketplace. He looked up at us and giving us his trademark laugh [ie he opens his mouth and squints but no sound comes out - it's hilarious trust me] says 'He probably just got a cookie or something!' It's gems like that that make me endure a 3 hour night class with him ^^.
Classics [day class]
Now for starters, Prof Matthews tends to be funny on a regular basis. He has this ridiculous amount of random knowledge packed into his brain so we get tidbits from him every now and again [for instance: did you know that the Romans sometimes outfitted the gladiators in these coats that would spontaneously burst into flames? neither did we until Matthews tolds us about 'em!]. So last week he was talking about the triremes which were there huge ships used by the Greek navies. Triremes needed three levels of rowers in order to operate: the thalamites [lowest level], the zygytes [middle level] and the thramites [upper level]. The explaination of the zygytes went something like this:
Matthews: So the second row of rowers were called the zygytes and they sat just above the thalamites. But they weren't positioned one rower directly above another, the zygytes were offset slightly in front of the thalamites. Just to give you a better idea of how the situation was set up, Aristophanes [a comic playwrite] is known to have said that the zygytes knew well how to fart in the faces of the thalamites.
Class: ::collective 'ewwww'-ing::
I'm really gonna miss him when he retires this at the end of this semester.