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- kswiss
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Yesterday in contracts we learned about building a house with the wrong kind of pipes.
One kind student said that phrase, "well if my only job is laying pipe..." and then caught herself. A smattering of people laughed.
Next case involved a logger floating logs down the river.
Every time the professor would say, "floating logs" all of the immature people, including me, would start to laugh.
"Can I just float one log?"
"Well can't I just cut up the job into a bunch of little pieces? Ya know, one log at a time."
"Or do I have to do it all in one big lump?"
At some point the metaphor got to be too much and I nearly lost it. I don't think anyone would have picked up on it if 1) the previous student hadn't keyed our minds to poop and 2) it is the end of the semester and our minds are all entertainment deprived.
One kind student said that phrase, "well if my only job is laying pipe..." and then caught herself. A smattering of people laughed.
Next case involved a logger floating logs down the river.
Every time the professor would say, "floating logs" all of the immature people, including me, would start to laugh.
"Can I just float one log?"
"Well can't I just cut up the job into a bunch of little pieces? Ya know, one log at a time."
"Or do I have to do it all in one big lump?"
At some point the metaphor got to be too much and I nearly lost it. I don't think anyone would have picked up on it if 1) the previous student hadn't keyed our minds to poop and 2) it is the end of the semester and our minds are all entertainment deprived.
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Friend: "I could never practice public interest law."
Me: "Why not?"
Friend: "Because I hate the public.....and their interests."
Me: "Why not?"
Friend: "Because I hate the public.....and their interests."
- Pizon
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A girl was talking about laying pipe and it keyed your mind to... poop?kswiss wrote:Yesterday in contracts we learned about building a house with the wrong kind of pipes.
One kind student said that phrase, "well if my only job is laying pipe..." and then caught herself. A smattering of people laughed.
Next case involved a logger floating logs down the river.
Every time the professor would say, "floating logs" all of the immature people, including me, would start to laugh.
"Can I just float one log?"
"Well can't I just cut up the job into a bunch of little pieces? Ya know, one log at a time."
"Or do I have to do it all in one big lump?"
At some point the metaphor got to be too much and I nearly lost it. I don't think anyone would have picked up on it if 1) the previous student hadn't keyed our minds to poop and 2) it is the end of the semester and our minds are all entertainment deprived.
- SamSeaborn2016
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I'm trying to remember the silly stuff that was said in class this semester.
Torts Prof: "Keep duty in its duty box. Oh, no."
Student: "That sounds like a gross box."
Civ Pro prof (note: he is about 70): "I can't listen to recent Radiohead. Too depressing."
Torts Prof: "And what do you normally find in sewers?"
Student from Florida: "Alligators?"
Prof: "Um, how about sewers in Portland?"
Me: "Homeless people?"
Torts Prof: "Keep duty in its duty box. Oh, no."
Student: "That sounds like a gross box."
Civ Pro prof (note: he is about 70): "I can't listen to recent Radiohead. Too depressing."
Torts Prof: "And what do you normally find in sewers?"
Student from Florida: "Alligators?"
Prof: "Um, how about sewers in Portland?"
Me: "Homeless people?"
- SamSeaborn2016
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We probably had the same mill cases. My contracts prof mention the Bangor shaft but, of course, said Banger Shaft.starrynight62 wrote:LMAO. Our contracts professor the other day was talking about a case where some factory's shaft was not delivered, and we are all giggling because he keeps saying "shaft...shaft...shaft." Then he starts acting it out in first person: "I only have one shaft! My shaft is broken!" etc. Then starts talking about how the damages have to be "naturally arising" out of the situation. He had no idea.Rocky Estoppel wrote:I don't think the Professor realized what he was saying.chicagolaw2013 wrote:OMG HAHAHA did everyone bust out laughing? Please tell me the prof realized the joke...Rocky Estoppel wrote:Civ Pro Professor talking about Intervention the other day. A student's last name was Cox that he had just talked to. He calls on a new student and says this:
"You saw me messing with Cox, playing with Cox, and then you just have to step in because you want a part of that action! What do you do?"
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- solotee
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Torts prof puts a picture up of the fruit section in a grocery store:
"Here we see young men sampling some coconuts"
"Here we see young men sampling some coconuts"
- mths
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Prof: "And what's so bad about slavery?"
My awesome section mate: "I am not fully prepared to answer that question"
My awesome section mate: "I am not fully prepared to answer that question"
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Prof said this in response to a comment in class:
"It's too early on a Monday for such strong opinions."
"It's too early on a Monday for such strong opinions."
- Lighthouse28
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After our Torts professor told students they should read over and edit their responses on their final exams, one student asked, "What if I don't have time because I need to spend all the time I can typing out my answer?" The professor replied, "Then you suffer from the Tough Shit Rule."
I'm gonna miss my Torts professor.
I'm gonna miss my Torts professor.
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Liked this one.
" Who owns your book?" -- Property Prof.
"I do." -- Student
"Prove it." -- Prop. prof.
"My name is in it." -- Student
"So is mine." -- Prop prof.
(he wrote the casebook)
" Who owns your book?" -- Property Prof.
"I do." -- Student
"Prove it." -- Prop. prof.
"My name is in it." -- Student
"So is mine." -- Prop prof.
(he wrote the casebook)
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"Mr. Jones says the answer is, "Yes." Can anyone provide us with an alternative response that is both shorter and more accurate?"
- Lilith
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Contracts professor was showing us something about shrink wrap licenses and such, and he used his own desktop to demonstrate. While he was doing this, he said, "I see you looking, but I already moved all of the scandalous stuff." He was awesome, and I'm sad that he will not be teaching Contracts II.
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- vanwinkle
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This thread hasn't seen any action for a while. Maybe the brand-new 1Ls can breathe some new life into it.
- Kabuo
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I was thinking about it today when my property prof did one of his usual weird things. I know there have been better quotes so far this year, but here's the best one of the day so far:vanwinkle wrote:This thread hasn't seen any action for a while. Maybe the brand-new 1Ls can breathe some new life into it.
While playing a drinking song for the first 3 minutes of class: "This is an old English drinking song, some of you might know it." I always think he's serious too.
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Here's some better ones I found memorialized on a section mate's fb.
"Hopefully the king could read, but back then, most people couldn't read! You remember? No, you don't remember." -Property professor
"Sometimes I put things up on the projector that you can't read. Then I tell you about them." -Property Prof.
These don't seem so hilarious in a vacuum. Maybe it would help to know that he's at least 90 years old.
"Hopefully the king could read, but back then, most people couldn't read! You remember? No, you don't remember." -Property professor
"Sometimes I put things up on the projector that you can't read. Then I tell you about them." -Property Prof.
These don't seem so hilarious in a vacuum. Maybe it would help to know that he's at least 90 years old.
- crossarmant
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Torts Professor:
"Want to be the scariest possible costume? Be juror. Nothing is scarier or irrationally dangerous."
"If you think you've run over someone, back up and make sure you did."
"I've long lost the ability to be a normal person. I'm a lawyer."
"My mother-in-law thinks I'm cool. I can make fish. She thinks it's the cat's meow.... Only took 30 years."
"You're a child until you graduate medical school. At leas in a Jewish household."
"Want to be the scariest possible costume? Be juror. Nothing is scarier or irrationally dangerous."
"If you think you've run over someone, back up and make sure you did."
"I've long lost the ability to be a normal person. I'm a lawyer."
"My mother-in-law thinks I'm cool. I can make fish. She thinks it's the cat's meow.... Only took 30 years."
"You're a child until you graduate medical school. At leas in a Jewish household."
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Person in elevator: "I've applied to hundreds of jobs. Still nothing."
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Crim Pro Professor: The world would be in danger if you guys tried to be criminals, because you'd never be convicted. Now my clients are dumb, they don't have this problem.
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Tort's Professor taking about Ames' Good Samaritan theory and how liability should be found on the person who doesn't help the stranger.
"Ames is a bit of a pussy."
"Ames is a bit of a pussy."
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Torts professor: "I wish I controlled all of the rubbish in LA so that I could continue living in the manner to which I've become accustomed."
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Student: "I have a question, and this may not make much sense..."
Torts Professor: "That's likely"
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Student: "I have a question, and this may not make much sense..."
Torts Professor: "That's likely"
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In torts we were reading a case about a mine in Butte, Montana. A kid, not sure whether this was intentional or not, kept referring to the case as the Butt Miner case...even our prof. couldn't contain his chuckles.
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Torts prof: "If you guys won a settlement, I don't know what you would use it for. Like, bungee jumping, and sex tourism, probably."
Other prof: (talking about Getting to Maybe) "Yeah, all that IRAC and CREAC is real great...except, I prefer you get to the fucking answer."
Other prof: (talking about Getting to Maybe) "Yeah, all that IRAC and CREAC is real great...except, I prefer you get to the fucking answer."
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Does getting to maybe teach you to write in IRAC effectivly?sknight323 wrote:Torts prof: "If you guys won a settlement, I don't know what you would use it for. Like, bungee jumping, and sex tourism, probably."
Other prof: (talking about Getting to Maybe) "Yeah, all that IRAC and CREAC is real great...except, I prefer you get to the fucking answer."
- NeighborGuy
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I lol'edausoccer19 wrote:In torts we were reading a case about a mine in Butte, Montana. A kid, not sure whether this was intentional or not, kept referring to the case as the Butt Miner case...even our prof. couldn't contain his chuckles.
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