(March 30, 2020 at 11:04 am)Fireball Wrote:

(March 30, 2020 at 6:18 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: "Not much for browsing, are you?"

I got married at 28. My friends couldn't believe that I was abandoning the lending library for one book.

I was 35 when I got married the first time. I browsed my ass off.

(March 30, 2020 at 12:25 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:

(March 30, 2020 at 11:04 am)Fireball Wrote: I got married at 28. My friends couldn't believe that I was abandoning the lending library for one book.

I was 35 when I got married the first time. I browsed my ass off.

That would be part of your posterior.  i think you meant to indicate a part from your anterior...

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In 1975, my first EE circuit design professor was expounding on the subject of transistors, when he went into the invention of said devices. He described the contributions of William Schockley.

I piped up "didn't he invent the biased transistor?".

It was by far the best laugh I've ever received for a humorous quip.


For those of you not familiar with the man, a short primer on his later "work" is in order, specifically as a promoter of eugenics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shockley

(March 30, 2020 at 6:15 pm)A. Secular Human Wrote:

(March 30, 2020 at 12:25 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: I was 35 when I got married the first time. I browsed my ass off.

That would be part of your posterior.  i think you meant to indicate a part from your anterior...

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In 1975, my first EE circuit design professor was expounding on the subject of transistors, when he went into the invention of said devices.  He described the contributions of William Schockley.

I piped up "didn't he invent the biased transistor?".

It was by far the best laugh I've ever received for a humorous quip.


For those of you not familiar with the man, a short primer on his later "work" is in order, specifically as a promoter of eugenics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shockley

You know what they say about jokes and explaining? Well I think it is even worse when you have to use wikipedia as background to explain your joke. Eep berba derkle I bet you got laid a lot in college.

(March 30, 2020 at 6:15 pm)A. Secular Human Wrote: That would be part of your posterior.  i think you meant to indicate a part from your anterior...

I was widely acknowledge to have a very cute ass. I counted it as an ASSet.

(March 29, 2020 at 7:50 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: So, guys, do you have some anecdotes from your time at a university you want to share?

In life drawing classes we always had nude models, but it was very matter-of-fact and non-sexual. 

One time, though, one of the students -- who was an attractive girl -- decided it would be easy money, and took the job part time. So she was "one of us" in some classes, and nekkid in others. Suddenly the whole thing became so sexualized we could hardly concentrate. When the timer went off for break time the teacher would hold her hand and escort her off the podium, which he certainly didn't do for the other models. Someone pointed out to me that during breaks I was kneading my kneaded eraser a lot. 

Later on my apartment was cleaned out by robbers, and they took all the nudes but left the landscapes.

During my liberal arts studies, for freshman composition, I lucked into having Lewis Nordan, a funny guy, easy grader, and fantastic novelist.  To avoid junior English, I took sophomore creative writing.  First day, in walks Buddy Nordan.  He liked my stories and we became friends.  The junior American lit prof got arrested for stealing old manuscripts from an Oklahoma library.  To finish the semester, they sent in Buddy.  Senior year, I signed up for a poetry workshop lead by Carolyn Forche'.  Sitting around the conference table on the first day, we were stoked!  She was on her way to the big time and about to make us poets.  In walks Buddy, "Hey everybody, I'm Carolyn Forche'".

I never signed up to take a Nordan class, but had him 3 1/2 semesters.  I love Lightning Song and Sharpshooter Blues.  I miss seeing the occasional email, all lower case whispers, from him.  Not being able to tell stories as personally and lyrically as he does is partly why I became an engineer.

(April 1, 2020 at 9:15 am)Ranjr Wrote: During my liberal arts studies, for freshman composition, I lucked into having Lewis Nordan, a funny guy, easy grader, and fantastic novelist.  To avoid junior English, I took sophomore creative writing.  First day, in walks Buddy Nordan.  He liked my stories and we became friends.  The junior American lit prof got arrested for stealing old manuscripts from an Oklahoma library.  To finish the semester, they sent in Buddy.  Senior year, I signed up for a poetry workshop lead by Carolyn Forche'.  Sitting around the conference table on the first day, we were stoked!  She was on her way to the big time and about to make us poets.  In walks Buddy, "Hey everybody, I'm Carolyn Forche'".

I never signed up to take a Nordan class, but had him 3 1/2 semesters.  I love Lightning Song and Sharpshooter Blues.  I miss seeing the occasional email, all lower case whispers, from him.  Not being able to tell stories as personally and lyrically as he does is partly why I became an engineer.

So, you might appreciate this:

An airliner out of Warsaw is on its way to Moscow.  As it approaches landing, the pilot says over the intercom "those of you on the starboard side will notice an excellent view of Red Square."  Of course, many on the port side rushed to the other side's windows.  The plane crashed.

In the follow-up report on the causes of the crash, this was the conclusion:  Instability due to excess Poles in the right half-plane.

I got my second semester cut short and was kicked off campus because a certain virus decided the world was too nice a place.

I met two of my wives on campus. Technically.

(April 10, 2020 at 2:00 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: I met two of my wives on campus. Technically.

Students?  

The first wife hired me to write a term paper.  It was a trap.  The second walked by my house every time she went to class one year.  Good thing I never met her back then.