My precal teacher today: "Would you feel safer if everyone had a gun, or if no one had a gun?"

[WritingIsMyReligion]

"Now I don't know about you, but I feel a tiny bit safer when nobody has a gun. But that's just me."

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

I love this guy. He's also called the US a budding theocracy and asked why motorcyclists all seem to be old, obese, and leather clad ("like sausage stuffed into too-small casing") and why motorcycle helmets now resemble Nazi paratrooper helmets--"with a notch cut above the ear! Oh, yeah, like that notch makes you such a bad-ass, buddy!"

All math teachers should be philosophy majors. Makes precalculus ten times more entertaining.

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Some of my math teachers and profs were very funny, too.

One of my college calc profs stopped during a lecture one day to mention he was going to visit his mother-in-law, and that he called her something like a "one bottle woman - which means I sit in the car in the driveway and drink a bottle of scotch before going in, so I can tolerate her" and then he resumed his lecture.

He did funny stops like that all the time, and it was even funnier because he had a very quiet, low, slow voice, like a slightly more energetic Eeyore.


Mathematicians are, in general, people of great humor - it tends toward an intellectual, dry kind of humor; but they are funny.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

2. Haha holy shit, that sounds like this guy.

In the middle of teaching he'll say something that will send himself off on a brief tangent about the UN, motorcyclists, driving in England, the Babylonians, etc.

[SteppingRazor]

7. Mine too.

My high-school geometry teacher, a Chinese-Jamaican fellow, used to teach us Jamaican slang if he ended his lesson plan early. I recall he taught us how to say "I'm going to chop off your head with a machete and feed it to the vultures," but I don't recall much of it except that vultures were "john crows."

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. The 'notch' is so they can hear

Bikers have to use all their senses when riding to protect themselves from willfully inattentive four-wheelers. Many wouldn't wear a helmet at all, but laws require them to.

I don't get the relevance of bikers, their helmets and guns to pre-calculus, but at least he's not a cheer coach in a humanities class.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=C6n9A5V4ivg



:shrug:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

5. He's so great.

He actually came up with these random nuggets from stuff we were talking about in class that was related to asymptotes of graphs, exponential and log functions, etc.

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. Asymptotes?

Are those like litotes? :shrug:

[AllegroRondo]

4. My calc teacher also taught the band drum line

great guy. and he could play the heck out of a marching snare.