• "stealth kitty is not afraid of anything" (on being fearless in confronting loud folks in the hallway during an exam)
• "when in doubt, use the reason of deduction...or your open leaf attack move" (on test-taking strategies)
• "there's a region in italy that makes marrow butter to spread on bread...it's like a cholestral bomb"
• "there's some squealing out there...no one should be allowed to be happy in the halls"
• "if you went to the luncheon, you had a chance to meet the power brokers of jewish studies"
• "yes, there is one last great tribe...the spillover from david's conquest...the koreans!" (on how someone heard "korean" as opposed to "queer" in a discussion about a visiting novelist)
• "you need a zeus form...lightning bolts come out if you get the right one" (on what type of scantron needed for the midterm)
• "oh, what's gender...you're in san francisco now"
• "it helps if you have someone you respect laugh at your quibble"
• "be careful, that pen is loaded" (to a student moving to grab it)
• "there is unrest in the population!" (after everyone raised their hands to dispute an opinion made)
• "this is beginning to sound like a judith butler seminar...i can't go on" (on the homoeroticism between patroclus and achilles)
• "achilles and patroclus don't go up to a B&B on the tigress...they weren't going antiquing or anything..." (response to a student's question of "are they dating?")
• "brutus is a celt? says WHO??" (outrage at the theory brutus was not as originally thought)
• "well, that pedagostal aim was wasted"
• "hey, before you read brad pitt into the role..." (on making characters relate to modern times)
• "i really want a sandwich and want to go...i don't want to hear a talk!" (on her experiences in college)
• "you take your ships (home), i have all the prizes ANYWAY" (impression of achilles)
• "his mother dressed him up as a little girl so he could run among the virgins...for his cross-dressing safety, of course" (achilles)
• "you gotta love it when achilles gets mad...dogface!"
• "vestor...old and feeble. sweet worded, thank you"
• "you know, you're taller...you could probably take them" (to squabbling students)
• "if you have a cool last name and don't show up, that's just irritating" (on kids who don't attend class the first day)
• "yes, the sumarians had all the fun"
• "impress us with your anthropological acumens" (to one of the smart alecks)
• "that (line) really means, 'perform for him the task of womankind' " (on gilgamesh)
• "they just couldn't get enough of circumsion" (world lit is so much fun, i swear - david story)

list archived dec 16 2006.