>>>Had a professor at the University of Houston whose name was Fitzgibbon, and one day we were doing a review for the midterm and he was telling us things like "If I were a betting man, and I am, I would bet big that this topic will be on the test" or, "You might want to pay attention to this"
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>>>After about 1/2 hour of this, he suddenly stopped, looked at us and said "don't get the idea that I'm 'nice' or anything. Remember, the first part of my name means "bastard son of" and the last part of my name is an ape"
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>>All the same, he wasn't that smart - smart enougfh to realise that bastard in this sense does not mean "a very unpleasant person" as opposed to the innocent product of extra-marital conjugation.
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>I believe it's called "a play on words"
Yes, I know, but the wrong play.
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>>>Yeah.....he had a real odd sense of humor.
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>>When I first went to grammar school our new chem teacher introduced himself thus:
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>>"My name's Mr Watts and I'm a bright spark for one". How we laughed till the tears ran down our legs ..... NOT!
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- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.