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The Layonara Community => Just for Fun => Topic started by: Milo on March 15, 2005, 08:19:00 PM

Title: Chuism
Post by: Milo on March 15, 2005, 08:19:00 PM

So we have this semi-crazy Chinese physics teacher...you will know why when you see the things he says in class...we named it Chuism (Bert Chu)
  "Viagra is $100 a pop"
  "The main friction causing agent is friction"
  "Your engine explodes if you redline your car"
  "The publisher question and answers are always right...and no, I am not changing your 68 test grade just because of vague questions"
  "Always have protection when you whoopee"
    More to come...

Title: RE: Chuism
Post by: Talan Va'lash on March 16, 2005, 12:13:00 AM

Once I had this crazy physics teacher, an old guy who looked like a mad scientist with the frizzy whitish/gray hair and all.  We had the class in a tiered lecture hall, each row of seats had a table in front of it, each higher than the next.  He never walked too fast, but when explaining quantum mechanics or electron orbitals, he would get up on the tables and jump from one tier to the next claiming he was a charged electron.

Title: RE: Chuism
Post by: on March 16, 2005, 01:05:00 AM

I remember one of my teachers back in college teaching us inorganic chemistry. We were making a chemical compound in the fume hood and one of the byproducts was hydrogen cyanide (Cyanide gas) The memorable moment was:

If any of you suddenly smell burnt almods let me know immediatly. A certain percentage of the population cannot smell them, and I am one of that percentage. It means cyanide is leaking into the classroom from the fume hood.

Being the smart-alick I am, I promply asked what burnt almonds smelt like.

His reply: I don't know, I can't smell them.

We then proceeded with the expirament...

His other famous comment when winter struck and we were all sick was whenever we were working with acid. "Stick your nose over it, it'll clear out your sinuses."

Title: RE: Chuism
Post by: Dorganath on March 16, 2005, 05:33:00 AM

I had a Computer Engineering professor in college...a Chinese man with the last name of Hwu (pronounced "who")

Yes...we called him "Dr. Hwu (i.e. Dr. Who)" :)

He was actually pretty funny.  No idiosyncracies or creative language use.  One time he was telling a story about something (I forget what) where he was talking or arguing with another person. 

The other said to him, "Who do you think you are?"

He replied, "Yes, I am" *grin*

Had to be there...

Title: RE: Chuism
Post by: dfiremann on March 16, 2005, 06:46:00 AM

I had a calc professor in the same vein.  One student asked him to review the answer to a question from a homework set.

After beginning, and continuing to scrawl across three chalk boards, he put the chalk down and said,

"I have no idea.  Does anyone know how to do dis?"