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- From: damiene@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Eccles)
- Subject: Re: My tuppence
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:51:55 GMT
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- neilb@physics.su.OZ.AU (RiemannZeta(s)) writes:
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- >Proof by boardem: The lecturer continues in an incompherensible manner
- >until everybody is asleep. He then says the magic words "and thus it has been
- >proved" which causes everybody to wake up, and decide to get the notes from
- >somebody else, which of course they never do.
-
- Or the words "This will by on the exam"
- -Lloyd Allison
-
- >Proof in a different course: The lecturer in Course A, says you will prove it
- >in course B. In course B, they state that you had proved it in course A.
- >(I find this one very popular at Syd Uni, especially between maths and physics)
- ARGH! Its Mathematical Methods!
-
- >Another species of lecturer is the Quo, the ability of the Quo is to
- >give out irrelevant information, so that you won't notice he is sucking
- >anything useful out of your brain. You will come out of a complex variable
- >lecture knowing about Gauss's love life, which blinds you to the fact you
- >know less about complex numbers than you came in. The Quo is a very
- >dangerous species as the information he imparts is slightly addictive,
- >and you end up coming back again and again ...
-
- Or about the lecturers use of microwaves in a computing class....
- >*************************************************
- >I ache for the touch of your lips, Dear,
- >But much more for the touch of your whips, Dear.
- >You can raise welts
- >Like nobody else,
- >As we dance to the Masochism Tango.
- >*************************************************
-
- Tom Lehrer?
-
- Eccles
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