Friday, February 01, 2008

  • Quotables - Professor Moger

    1.      Professor Moger: “Wednesday we are doing Creation and Evolution.  I expect that lesson to be a big bang.” 

    2.      Professor Moger: “We won’t be teaching anything that isn’t in the Bible… Sex and violence are in the Bible.”

    3.      Professor Moger: “Nobody ever was strangled by a bowtie.” 

    4.      Professor Moger: “I got the reputation of being some kind of a hard nose among the professors.  I’m not, I’m a teddy bear… I am really a nice lovable guy… I think.” 

    5.      Professor Moger:  “I think Dr. Mitchell bans all forms of technology… from your life.” 

    6.      Professor Moger: “Dr. Smith is not here anymore, but I miss him.  Just like I miss the Cold War.” 

    7.      Professor Moger: “I did once IM a student I knew was in class.  That was because I knew they were in Dr. Smith’s Philosophy class.  I was emailing her philosophy jokes trying to get her to laugh.” 

    8.      Professor Moger: “My class is worth every penny you pay.”

    9.      Professor Moger; “This is why we need universal healthcare, because of eyeless cavefish.”

    10.  Professor Moger: “You know attendance is not mandatory.  What are the rest of you doing here?” 

    11.  Professor Moger: “This is the fruit of the new attendance policy.  I know you are all here because you love me.”

    12.  Mr. Moges: “I am an equal opportunity professor.  I will call on you whether you raise your hand or not.” 

    13.  Professor Moger: “Why do you think I’m not lecturing on what’s in the textbook?” Lucas: “Because you didn’t do the reading?” 

    14.  Professor Moger: “What’s a DWEM?  Dead White European Males.” 

    15.  Professor Moger: “I’m sure there are some very nice insurgents.”

    16.  Professor Moger: “We have one word for snow: cold.” 

    17.  Brady: “We don’t shave our legs.” Professor Moger: “Speak for yourself.” 

    18.  Professor Moger: “God just made some people dumb.” 

    19.  Professor Moger: “God created us to populate the earth.  Homeschool families are doing their part.”

    20.  Professor Moger: “Do we have any Egyptologists in here?  No, okay, then I’m going to start making stuff up at this point.” 

    21.  Professor Moger on pyramids: “The aliens stopped coming down and giving them the diagrams… don’t put that in your notes.” 

    22.  Professor Moger: “What’s a strip mall? A place where people strip.”

    23.  Professor Moger: “They didn’t interview squirrels and get the oral account.” 

    24.  Professor Moger: “Hammurabi could have been a Republican.” 

    25.  Professor Moger: “Where are the ten lost tribes of Israel?” Rachel whispers: “In Utah.”

    26.  Professor Moger: “You will go to historian hell for writing a sentence like this.”

    27.  Professor Moger: “Jonathon Horton… Where is Jonathan Horton?” Joe: “He’s also on the girls soccer team.” 

    28.  Professor Moger: “Thankfully for us Germans are proud and drink a lot of beer.” 

    29.  Professor Moger: “So we’re more superstitious today because we believe that a man can fly around in his underwear?” 

    30.  Catoe: “Is there a difference between a temple prostitute and another type of prostitute?” Professor Moger: “I don’t know, I don’t have experience with this.”

    31.  Professor Moger: “I like chick flicks.” 

    32.  Professor Moger: “Superman… He fights for justice just like George Bush.”

    33.  Professor Moger: “I’m only giving your textbook a B for that answer.”

    34.  Professor Moger: “I draw the line at Jane Austin.  It lowers your testosterone level.”

    35.  Professor Moger: “I would say Bill Clinton is a good example of a Sophist.”

    36.  Ryan: “Is this a trap, it feels like a trap.”  Professor Moger: “It’s not a trap.”

    37.  Professor Moger: “[The dialectic] was the philosophical equivalent of a colonoscopy.” 

    38.  Jonathan: “I think we have to be careful to call schizophrenia crazy.”

    39.  “I actually did spend some time in prison […] I was a chaplain, don’t worry, I didn’t do anything wrong.”

    40.  Professor Moger: “Flattery will get you everywhere.”

    41.  Professor Moger: “Sex and violence, yes that is a theme of the lecture today.”

    42.  Professor Moger: “the tools that historians use are clunky tools.” 

    43.  Professor Moger: “Historians are doofuses.  They can’t even figure out when Rome fell.”

    44.  Professor Moger: “Romans had a lot of hair that needed plucking.”

    45.  Professor Moger: “We’re a happy little class studying a happy little religion, Islam.”

    46.  Professor Moger: “They got the holy okeydokey.” 

    47.  Professor Moger: “We’re part of a great heritage of sleep-deprived scholars” Kate: “Sleep-deprivation is a long Western Tradition.”

    48.  Professor Moger: “You can’t just go down to your friendly arms dealer like you can today.”

    49.  Professor Moger: “You know how they say there is no such thing as a stupid question.  It’s not true.  There are stupid questions.  I’ve asked a lot of them in my life.” 

    50.  Professor Moger: “I love the French.  Who would we make fun of if not for the French?”

    51.  Professor Moger: “Three things students require: food, lodging, and drinking.  Of course things have changed today: students don’t have to eat!” 

    52.  Professor Moger: “What’s up with the God-man.” 

    53.  Professor Moger: “She named her son Astrolab.  I’m not making this stuff up.”

    54.  Professor Moger: “They had more athletic fleas in the Middle Ages.”

    55.  Professor Moger: “The art may be exposing itself to you, but you don’t have to expose yourself to the art.” 

    56.  Professor Moger: “Trying to get a lawyer into heaven is very difficult.” 

    57.  Professor Moger on Thomas More: “He’s the patron saint of lawyers.” Brady: “Are you sure he’s in heaven.” Professor Moger: “Moving on…”

    58.  Professor Moger: “Weddings are terrible.” 

    59.  Professor Moger on the Vatican: “All this was funded by your peasant German ancestors.”

    60.  Professor Moger: “You can buy a church office on credit.”

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