Lecturers say the darnest things: ENGL 307

"But of course it is - history is made every moment."

"Bla bla... Learning Objectives... we have to put those in."

"We got Jessicas aplenty!"

"Oh God! I thought that was a pillow right there for a moment."

"They didn't go much for suspense in the retelling of classics."

"Just don't get lost - the Web is an easy place to get lost in."

"Troy would not have looked anything like that, I promise you."

"'Cause that's what men do when they fall in love, innit?
Write poems and sing songs."

"Why do people fall in love in spring?"

"I'd like to kick against alphabetical niceties."

"Not really useful? Just designed to embarrass you?"

"How many of you wander into a prince's chamber?"

"Although... no, no, we won't go there."

"We could rewrite the whole thing... with emoticons!"

"Troilus needs all the support he can get."

"I mean, when Zeus desires a woman, there's not much you can do about it."

"Some people argue there are three to four endings -
Chaucer doesn't know how to stop."

"He's wrong? Chaucer?"

"Sorry, Il Filostrato is a bunch of Facebook status."

"There's nothing with 'modern'."

"Can't pretend to be Australian?"

"I mean, post-modernist people think they invented intertextuality."

"Which I suppose is true, even in Scots."

"God, I thought you were insulting me for a moment!"
-on thinking that a student called him 'post-modern'.

"There is no word in English that rhymes with 'orange'."

"Well, the leniation is pretty arbitrary - let's put it that way."

"That pretty much spoils everything."

"Directors cannot deal with ambiguities! Completely terrified!"

"You like your men sexually ambiguous?"