Like fisting a baked bean tin full of syrup...

[insane_alien]

So, i was in my plasticts engineering lecture this morning(10 am) and the lecturer was explaining viscoelasticity to us(fun stuff:rolleyes:) most of the class was a tad hungover(though strangely i wasn't) and i heard the weirdest analogy ever. 'viscoelasticity is like fisting an oversided baked bean tin full of syrup' .

 

naturally it took a bit of time to sink in and ask 'did he really just say that? and it turns out he did. its not normal 10am discussion that. i mean the only real scenarios where that should come up is either if you're high or have some outlandish fetishes.

 

but here i am making a thread of it. what other weird and wacky things have you heard teachers and lecturers say?

[swansont]

what other weird and wacky things have you heard teachers and lecturers say?

 

I'll have to dredge up my old graduate dynamics notes. 8:30AM class.

 

The weirdest may have been something to the effect of - "your next exam will have a problem on it that gave a lot of you difficulty on the first exam. Forcing you to eat your own vomit, as it were."

 

He also was famous for mixing Stern (of Stern-Gerlach) with Sturm (of Sturm-Liouville)