Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Potential T-shirt sayings?

My Human Records and Society class is not really discussion-oriented -- the professor pretty much talks for the whole three hours and we furiously write down everything he says. Or at least I do. I have no idea if most of it is important, but I've never been good at just sitting and listening. In addition to recording all of the stuff that seems useful, I use the margins of my notebook to write down the random crap he says. A sampling:
  • No one has ever domesticated a zebra.
  • The people who use cell phones are irredeemably literate.
  • We don't see walls as mostly space.
  • Who moved my caterpillar?
  • Language is spooky.
  • Societies without furniture probably don't have a word for "chair."
  • His name is Patrick but we call him Guido. (I think that was about his grandson.)
  • You don't come out of Spartan school an interior decorator.
  • It's ridiculous to talk about a Mormon Hopi.
  • Just because you know something doesn't mean you can do anything.
  • If you roast a metal it will gain weight.
  • If something happens to your yams, it's never an accident.
  • Tycho Brahe (the astronomer) had a gold and silver strap-on nose.

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