Some Fun and Out-of-Context Quotes, part XXX

Extra-special thanks to Lizzie D., who provided me with this entire post's worth of quotes:)

"Would you like a dinosaur as a pet?"
-Lizzy to Mr. Giromini

"That's not quite the word I'd use for it, but general in my evil army of the night, maybe."
-Mr. Giromini on the above

"Let's not be violent, there's too much paperwork involved."
-Bridget

"Do me a favor: go be productive."
-Mr. Giromini

"It reminds me of a frying pan."
-Bridget on a viola

"I forgot my question, come back and get it later."
-Lizzy

"Get drastic, get sarcastic."
-Reem

Campi! The plural is campi!

This year, in order to honor the founder and first principal of IA, a couple of changes were made. First, IA Central (which has always been just 'IA,' unless being specifically contrasted with the other campi,) is now the Lambert Okma campus. Second, a portrait of Mr. Okma now hangs in on the wall at the end of the office's hallway. The latter was used to advertise the Welcome Back Dance, as shown in this picture that I find entertaining:


And the answer to the obvious question is no, I do not think he was really there, although this fact(oid) has not been officially confirmed.

Safe School Policy...Win?

In ToK a couple days ago, Mr. Wolf commented that the left side of the room was always the most talkative. In every single class, the left side was the loudest. He then said that, on the bright side, it would be convenient if he were driving in England: they would be the easiest to hit. A group of students on the right side of the room didn't completely understand what he had meant, and started arguing about it. Each person had his or her own idea of why it was supposed to be funny, and each insisted that his or her own interpretation was the correct one. Upon hearing them arguing, he proceeded to tell us the story of the first fight he ever witnessed at IA.

It was his first year at IA, and he was standing outside the music room (which back then was still the lunch room) when he heard two boys yelling at each other. "No you can't!" "Yes you can!" they shouted back and forth. Fearing they would resort to physical violence, Mr. Wolf went over to them to break it up. "Best to let them throw the first punch," he thought to himself. That way, he figured, there would be a winner and they would separate more easily. As the shouting escalated and one of the boys looked as if he was just about to punch the other, he held back and instead shouted, "You don't even have to worry about getting a car to stop in a frictionless vacuum- you could never get it started!" The other boy slammed his fist downward into his palm in frustration, yelled, "Fine!" then turned and stormed off.

Some Fun and Out-of-Context Quotes, Part XXIX

We spent a good ten to fifteen minutes in fisix class yesterday talking about 'fisix examples gone awry.' It was quite entertaining; Mr. Lyons has a vast store of them. When we talk about electric current he compares the electrons to sugar-crazed kindergartners running around chaotically, but having a net displacement when we tip the floor of the kindergarten room. Then we usually introduce voltage by picking up the kindergarteners at the bottom of the room and placing them at the top, and resistance by inserting all sorts of things for them to smash into. I also like the school dance analogy for resistance: when there is fast music (high temperature) playing, there are people going in every direction like crazy, and it would be very difficult to run across the dance floor. When a slower song (lower temperature) comes on, the electrons pair up and move slowly, generally not going too far from one spot, and sometimes going far too close to each other. Now it's much easier to run across the dance floor. When things cool down enough, it becomes a middle school dance, and the boys run to one side of the room and the girls to the other, leaving no one on the dance floor and nothing to block the runner's way: hence, superconductivity. The first quote here obviously resulted from our class' lack of Mr. Lyons as a ninth grade fisix teacher...so that's about all the context I can give you. And besides, who needs context anyway? Read the title, people.

"I never taught you guys projectile motion, so we never bombed the orphanage. Which was located next to the bomb factory. Which was where the kids worked."
-Mr. Lyons on the bizarre analogies he uses in class

"I would pay to never see that again."
-Mr. Lyons on Quidditch

"When it looks like a photo-negative rainbow, it's a bruise."
-Abby on Marie's and my argument about the definition of a bruise following her horse-related concussion

"It was a perfect linear function."
-Mr. Lyons on his falling grade in his college Ancient Greek class

"It's obeyed about as much as most laws in this country are."
-Mr. Lyons on Ohm's Law

"Oh, you got a thirty-three, are you taking it again?"
-A typical IA student on the ACT

"Todos los problemas del mundo son masculinos."
-Sra. Riggs on the word problema being masculine

"You love this word 'cause you think you're swearing."
-Frau Boyle on the German word for 'bright'

"Don't run means stop running!"
-Srta. Fernández on insubordination in the hallway

amUity

In history class, Mr. Majask had a PowerPoint presentation on the board about the reoccupation of the Rhineland, the territory that Germany was forced to demilitarize after WWI but managed to remilitarize before WWII. One of the bullet points read, "March 36 German troops reentered Rhineland." Upon reading this line, Mr. Majask was assaulted with questions about what it meant. Of course, he had meant it to mean "In March of 1936, German troops reentered Rhineland."

One student thought that they marched 36 troops into the Rhineland. Mr. Majask did an impersonation of what this might have looked like: "36 guys marched into the Rhineland saying 'We claim this for Germany!' No one did anything, so they marched another mile: 'Germany!'"

Another student thought it meant that all this had happened on March 36th. I'll just leave it at that.

Arrr, an' I mustn't be foregttin' t'wish ye a v'ry happy International Talk Like A Pirate Day!

Some Fun and Out-of-Context Quotes, Part XXVIII

"When I smile it looks really creepy."
-Moose on senior pictures

"If you think I read these ahead of time, you're sorely mistaken."
-Mr. Lyons on assigning homework problems that won't be on the test

"I have opinions about everything."
-Sra. Riggs on the decision between HL and SL

"I always write these lists of questions to ask people, but then I always misplace them."
-Sudheer on forgetting what he wanted to ask me

"How can a timer freeze?"
-Mike on using hi-tech devices for fisix labs

"In with the Buddha, out with the Hitler."
-Kenny on relaxation

"I fall on normal ground."
-Julia on how standing on a chair was making her look unsteady

"I thought I would get out without you noticing me."
-Sra. Riggs on sneaking into a math classroom, getting caught, and being asked to stay and learn math

"I used to have a life. Then I started cheating on it with IB, and me and life got a divorce."
-Kyra H. (originally from here)

"Yeah that was me trying to be cool. And I failed."
-Mr. Stibitz on the phrase 'you go girl'

"Do you have Asian friends? Do you want to know more about their culture?"
-The Asian Student Association on how to word their announcement to get people's attention

"It's all sausage to me!"
-Frau Boyle on the literal translation of the phrase ,,Das ist mir Wurscht" meaning "I don't care"

IAtionary: Xeroxedly

Xer-oxed-ly [ZEER-oksd-lee] adv.

1. In a way similar to that of a Xerox machine
2. Identically, similarly enough to pass for a Xerox copy; Sra. Riggs: Your quiz will look very similar, like Xeroxedly similar, to this paper.

Language of Origin: Riggsean

Improvement

I'd like to direct your attention to this post. Now I'd like to add on that its so much funnier now that I have ToK in there.

IAtionary: Pipe Bomb

Pipe Bomb [PAHYP bom] n.

1. Any dangerous-looking item, especially tubular ones that involve fire; Hey, what's that flaming thing behind you? Oh, that's just the pipe bomb.
2. A device used to intimidate others, usually with little to no actual potential to do harm

Language of Origin: Fisixian

My freshman year in Fisix Club, we built a contraption officially known as a "flame tube." The idea was this: we had a fairly long piece of PVC pipe with a line of tiny, closely-spaced holes drilled in it. We would hook one end up to a supply of natural gas, and the other to a speaker and frequency generator. By playIng the frequency, we could create a standing wave inside the pipe. When we lit the gas coming from the holes on fire, the height of the flame at any given point along the line would depend on the wave inside, making the height of the flame look like a wave. It was really cool to see the wall of fire with the varied heights- it really did look like a wave on top. Oh, and we could spray it with chemicals to get it to flare up in any color we wanted. Anyway, naturally we started calling it thePipe Bomb. Mr. Lyons told us it was bad PR and we should stick with Flame Tube, but it had already (sorry) caught on.

La Comprensión

In Spanish class a few days ago, I was talking to my friend Sudheer. Since it's Spanish class, we're supposed to speak exclusively in Spanish, so I was doing my best to do so. After a fairly long-winded explanation of some grammatical concept or something, (I can't remember anymore...I really should write these things sooner!) he repeated what he had understood to be sure we were on the same page. I was trying to talk quickly to test my fluency, and he was missing a few key elements. He then (paraphrasedly) explained his method for understanding my Spanish: "Everyday I try to understand one more word of what you say. I'll find out how many words of each sentence I get today, and tomorrow I'll try to understand one more. Eventually, I'll be able to understand the entire sentence." Amused, I asked him how many words he had reached by that particular day. Holding up the appropriate number of fingers, he replied, "Cuatro."

Military Pack

The first Friday of the school year, after my last class of the day, I was in the hallway when I saw Bridget walking away from me. Not so unusual, except that also walking away from me was the single hugest backpack I had ever seen. Intrigued, I caught up to her and asked if she was planning to stay at school for two weeks at a time this year. She said no, and that she had the huge backpack (fittingly enough) to carry all her books. She explained that she kept her materials in her locker, and carried everything but her books to each class individually. I still don't really understand her system, buy hey, if it works for her, why not? It was, however, an entertaining sight, and she agreed to pose for a (poor-quality cellphone) photo which she gave me full permission to use on OAIA. Thanks Bridget:)


Oh, and when I asked her where she got it, she said, "Joe's Army Navy." Figures.

IAtionary: Kagan

Kagan [KAY-guhn] n., v., adj., adv., ...

1. A generic swear word, able to be put in place of any other; What the Kagan are you doing?!
2. An expression of anxiety or frustration, always used in place of a swear word; Oh, Kagan! I forgot to do my history homework!

Language of Origin: Historian

In IB2 History, we are doing a series of assignments involving a book called On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace by Donald Kagan. Somewhere along the line, someone commented that Kagan should be a swear word...so now it is. Enough said.