A collection of phrases that certain CompSci lecturers said only to regret a second or two later.
Mark Ratcliffe, CS12230
"now I want you all to spend a couple of minutes satisfying yourselves..."
"you can't fiddle with another person's private parts"
"forget Java" (at least 3 times in every Java lecture)
"don't you just hate Java?"
Adrian Shaw, CS10110
"the next time you have a bit of spare time at the end of a practical, I want you to practise fingering yourself, or even fingering one of your friends! As a computer scientist, you're going to have to become very familiar with fingering people"
"Who's seen a 3 1/2 inch floppy before, what about a 5 1/4 inch? I'm sure I even remember seeing an 8 inch floppy before."
"Sometimes you just wish you still had a floppy..."
"How many people have used a floppy in the last month?"
"The only way I can see for people to get rid of the PC architecture is to, well, buy a mac."
"If you kill the parent, then the child will die too"'
Edel Sherrat, CS10410
"Pi....as in..pots and pans...and maybe a pumpkin."
"Ooh, kind of looks like some sort of..demented cat!"
"You remind me of my son."
"It's like a menage a trois between x, y and c!"
"A menage' a trois is where a man and two woman live together in a domesticated situation. Infact, it can be any combination of men and women."
.*Demented Smile*
"I just love rational numbers"
"I've been plastering with my husband all week, including this lunch time so if you should happen to see any white on my face or chest, don't panic"
Lynda Thomas, CS10610
"So lets enter Prince into our table. Or is it The Artist Formally Known as Prince. Prince...Formally Known....does anyone know?"
"I seem to be having some sort of obsession with Prince today..."
"Wheeeeeeee" - As Lynda played with the light dimmer in Physics Main...
"I wonder if people in Australia have to turn their maps upside down... Does anyone know?"
Richard Shipman
"Windows! *Spit*"
"We had to take the porn websites off the Church internet..."
Nigel Hardy
"Throwing the baby out of the bathtub"
"Oh dear, I appear to have fallen into my own trap."
and recently *ramble followed by "ah, DING!" *
"weeeeee"
". . and then the internet came along and databases were sexy again"