<b><a href="http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/011831.html">Wednesday One-Liners Publish or Perish</a></b><br/> <!-- ID = 57549 -->Professor: If you are selected, meet me and talk to me about the presentation on Thursday, and you can take advantage of me. [Awkward pause, then] If you want to rape me, you are welcome to try, but I don't think so because I am pretty strong.<br/><br/>--NYU<br/><br/>Overheard by: Ting<br/><br/><!-- ID = 58869 -->Political philosophy professor after oral surgery: I had a choice to make: I could have stayed home like a happy clam on Percocet, or I could teach class... I miss the Percocet.<br/><br/>--Hunter College<br/><br/>Overheard by: tanechka<br/><br/><!-- ID = 60485 -->Computer science professor: They [people who figured out which mushrooms were poisonous] were the true pioneers. Screw Edison!<br/><br/>--NYU<br/><br/><!-- ID = 64786 -->Professor: Don't get too excited -- I'm not putting you into groups. Yeah, I saw you all sitting there, looking around, thinking 'Which of these fuckers is going to do all of the work?'<br/><br/>--Fordham University<br/><br/><!-- ID = 67193 -->Professor: Okay, you guys fill out these course evaluations, and I'll go amuse myself for 15 minutes by... doing drugs or something [leaves room].<br/><br/>--Waverly Building, NYU<br/><br/>Overheard by: evanescent<br/><br/><!-- ID = 68220 -->English professor: I can never find enough excuses to use the word 'pus.'<br/><br/>--Hunter College<br/><br/>Overheard by: upperwestsider<br/><br/><br/>via <a href="http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/">Overheard in New York</a>, Sep 26, 2007