[QOTW] Honorable Mentions, November 13

[Quote of the Week]

"On the plus side, you can get drunk with all of them."

-Garth, explaining to either Miles or Erik why they should go to a Bar
Mitzvah
and hang out with 13-year-old boys instead of debating at the UPenn debate
tournament this weekend

"People in the social sciences sometimes make statements about numbers that
sometimes you wonder what they've smoked."
-Dr. Davis Santos (U. Penn)

"Clearly, um, no not clearly actually.  *cough* *giggle* *laugh* *sniff*
the content
the the
the conten*giggle* the contentssssssss. With an S! of
0x1E um *giggle* the first four bits of them *laughter* on the next time
through are what is appearing on the LEDs.  Which is because or actually
it should be this is because *laughter*.  *sigh*  *whisper* this is
because
.*end whisper*  wooowhen it loops through
*laughter* or actually,
not when it loops through, when it gets to the break point,
.its red in
the new value..no no no! its red with an r-e-A-d
its no no no I said three
no’s.   *whisper*when it get*end whisper*  *talks to herself*
.*giggle* 
its read in the new value r-e-A-d.  but hasn’t yet*wide mouth* put the
mfirst four digits onto the LED’s.  uh-huh. Allison, you’re sucha dork!!!!
 *much giggle*  you’re so not turning it in this way!  you’re so not
turning it in that way!  Okay, you can leave that, but you have to put it
into English first.  Or too."
-Julia, doing Engineering homework (I do believe she was not quite herself
at the time)

I didn't understand that at all, but whatever.

"In Yiddish, every noun means both itself and penis."
- Andrew Parker, Amherst College English Professor

"Go out there and die!"
- Lucas's spec to David, after hearing that if David died he'd have a bed
to sleep in.

"I'm the closest thing to an older sister she'll ever have." - Chris, on
his relationship with his little sister

Quoted for truth:
"It is an acquired taste to find Hobbes hilarious."
-Cindy Halpern, Swarthmmore Political Theory Professor

"Freshmen are like the pillars in the Dartmouth Lobby: Garrison likes to
jump on them, but they hold up the second floor."
-Garrison Inge, asked to say something funny

"Life is like a desert- it's uaually very dry and sandy, but sometimes it
can be wet."
-Nick Pittman, asked to say something funny

"What?"
-Louis Watanabe, asked to say something funny

Remember to vote on the actual nominees, please.
-RHM