Professor: And for Lawrence, the genitals are a system of creative, generative power, the opposite of the center of destructive power in the body, the system of excretion. The ultimate transformative event, which Lawrence refers to in coded language on page 220, is the union of these two systems during anal sex.
In unison, the whole lecture hall looks up and goes utterly still and silent.
Professor: Now that I've got your attention, let's do a little close reading.
--English Class
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
What novel?
Professor: And we can see this return to nature at it's most extreme in the flood scene where Tom drowns.
Yalie: Tom DIES!?
Yale Professor: (sigh) I can see exactly how many of you are going to finish the novel by Wednesday.
--English Class
Yalie: Tom DIES!?
Yale Professor: (sigh) I can see exactly how many of you are going to finish the novel by Wednesday.
--English Class
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Jeez, how big is your poonani?
Yale Girl: I had the weirdest dream about you last night. For serious. It involved me birthing you... But you were in an egg. A really big egg. Well, the funny part is that when you cracked open, you oozed yolk everywhere and I was pissed because I like my eggs well done. I'm not making any of this up.
--Paris, France.
--Paris, France.
Monday, October 22, 2007
Not ironic. Not metaphorical. Just the truth. (for serious)
Yalie Guy: I didn't want Jack Nicholson to see the poo stain.
--Saybrook
--Saybrook
The Yalie: Well heeled and Unreasonable
Yalie: If we pooled all of our trust funds we could buy a private island. They're not that expensive.
--Elm St.
--Elm St.
I feel like that situation is self-perpetuating.
Girl: Why don't we have any black friends?
--Elm St.
--Elm St.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Yeah, but I'm usually sleeping.
Boyfriend: *Cough*
Girlfriend: See, that's why I'm sick. You don't cover your mouth!
Boyfriend: Lauren*, I do a lot more than that to you.
--Elm St.
Girlfriend: See, that's why I'm sick. You don't cover your mouth!
Boyfriend: Lauren*, I do a lot more than that to you.
--Elm St.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
And sometimes it talks back to me...
Girl Yalie: Whoa! My butt is so big! Sometimes, I just see it and I'm like "Oh my God, it's huge."
--SY
--SY
Saturday, October 13, 2007
I don't WANT you to know that!
Girl: I want you to fart so I can smell what the inside of you smells like.
-Yale
-Yale
Friday, October 12, 2007
Like when the British smoke...poles.
Yalie 1: Why don't you sleep in his room?
Yalie 2: It smells bad.
Gayalie: What? Like his smell or like cologne?
Yalie 2: He uses something fruity...It smells like fag.
--Apt
Yalie 2: It smells bad.
Gayalie: What? Like his smell or like cologne?
Yalie 2: He uses something fruity...It smells like fag.
--Apt
At least...not since the operation.
Girl: Well, all I can say is when I'm walking down the street I don't feel MY clitoris banging around between my legs.
--Antropology Seminar
--Antropology Seminar
Sunday, October 7, 2007
...then he immidiately crashed his car.
Asian man: Excuse me. I have question.
Yalie: Yeah.
Asian Man: Where is the baa? The baa? How get to the baa?
Yalie: To BAR? Is it called "BAR"
Asian man: The baa!
Yalie: Um, it's on Crown. Take a right and then a left on Crown.
Asian man: On Clown?....I take a light?
--Elm St.
Yalie: Yeah.
Asian Man: Where is the baa? The baa? How get to the baa?
Yalie: To BAR? Is it called "BAR"
Asian man: The baa!
Yalie: Um, it's on Crown. Take a right and then a left on Crown.
Asian man: On Clown?....I take a light?
--Elm St.
Monday, October 1, 2007
Just like you and your latex paint fetish.
Girl 1: Incest in porn is great...it's hot...but when I think about my brothers I feel like I'm gonna puke.
Girl 2: ...
Girl 1: I don't search for it! It just comes up sometimes when I look for normal porn.
--Off-Campus B-day Party
Girl 2: ...
Girl 1: I don't search for it! It just comes up sometimes when I look for normal porn.
--Off-Campus B-day Party
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Or maybe it's all of the AMPHETAMINES!!!
Stoner Girl: I feel like my eyes are all chinky.
Stoner Guy: They're not bad.
Stoner Girl: Maybe it's the eye shadow.
--The Couch
Stoner Guy: They're not bad.
Stoner Girl: Maybe it's the eye shadow.
--The Couch
True, SigEp is though.
Guy: Do you guys have a bathroom in here?
Girl: (frankly) We go in the road.
Guy: Well I...
Girl: God *Ivan THIS ISN'T EASTERN EUROPE!
--The Elmhurst
Girl: (frankly) We go in the road.
Guy: Well I...
Girl: God *Ivan THIS ISN'T EASTERN EUROPE!
--The Elmhurst
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
I knew there was something about that cat in Homeward Bound
Girl to friend: If a cat is smarter than a dog then that's just...a freak of nature.
- bench near Lawrance
- bench near Lawrance
...said Aristotle to Plato
Confused girl: Yeah, but isn't that like...kind of weird?
- an unnamed philosophy course
- an unnamed philosophy course
Wow, oh yeah def.
In this film, particularly, the camera is between us and the characters.
--Film Seminar
--Film Seminar
I need to go yard.
Yale girl: How are we going to potty train the puppy?
Yale guy: We'll teach by example.
--Roof with a View
Yale guy: We'll teach by example.
--Roof with a View
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Uh...I don't know how to feel right now. (whimper)
Yalie: So the babysitter just cooked him up something out of the freezer and when his Mom got home she was like, "Holy fuck! You just ate your brother's placenta!"
--Elmhurst
--Elmhurst
Too bad then,...I was thinking about converting.
Inquisitive American: Are old Japanese people really casual about farting?
Japanese Yalie: NO!
--Rooftop
Japanese Yalie: NO!
--Rooftop
Ingredient or Food? You decide.
Yalie: I ate two pounds of peanut butter in one sitting. And them I just kept on eating. Straight up!
--Elmhurst
--Elmhurst
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Yep, and you're just a living statue of an idiot.
Girl: You can move statues, right? Aren't trees just living statues?
-- Outside Branford dining hall.
-- Outside Branford dining hall.
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