Mike's Quotes Page


"Try putting in a very small number, like point zero zero zero zero zero."
- Mrs. Miller, calculus teacher, describing how to find the limit of a function as x approaches zero

"I’ll give it to you in a sentence. ‘The witch cast a spell on me, so I went to the wizard to get an anecdote.’"
- Andrew Ellis, when asked what "anecdote" means

"I’m used to high grass and heavy balls."
- Lauren Kriegel, about field hockey

"I just saw Dan’s legs spread, and I wanted to go between them."
- Lee Bernstein, in a ping pong match with Dan Schreiber

"The only thing I care about right now is apathy."
- Andrew Ellis

"You know, sir, Tess of the D’urbervilles really bored me until the part where the Tyrannosaur started attacking the jeep…"
- Gregory Wyshynski, to Mr. Turner, English teacher

"[Blow job] has to be either hyphenated or two words, because the job that’s being done is the blow."
- Victor Russo

"Well, the kid is pretty messed up. I mean, come on, he has an exoskeleton."
- David Tsui, about Lauren’s egg baby project

"Okay girls, grab a partner and get busy!"
- Mrs. Franks, Phys Ed teacher, to her class in the weight room

"How do you spell intelligence?"
- Andrew Stanger

"Come to my house tonight, we’ll make fluffernutter sandwiches."
- Lauren Kriegel

"Look at us. We could be in a movie. We have two Mikes, two Andys, two girls, and an Indian."
- Andy Stanger

"Thank you for that useless information, professor. Can I have some more?"
- Chris Malter

"Oh! Today’s the day I have all those funny classes at all those weird times!"
- Michael Moyer

"Can I sleep in your room tonight? I’ll bring my bed."
- Andrew Ellis

"An error was encountered while reading drive A. This error prevents ScanDisk from fixing the disk."
- An MS Dos disk-fixing program

"Now what this ‘trunc’ function does is, it whacks off the decimal."
- Maxine Fontana, Computer Science Instructor, talking about a very happy decimal

"I am Satan! I travel at the speed of Darkness, which is ten times the speed of light!"
- James Robinson

"If it rains, remember to wear an umbrella. And if it doesn’t rain, shake hands with the unemployed."
- Gary Benedetto, making a sexual reference

"Yes! Yes! I may have a winter job this summer!"
- Andrew Ellis

"Oh shit! He’s dead! Damn, I’m talking about myself in the third person."
- James Robinson

"Damn! Duped by the very person who was trying to dupe me!"
- Victor Hall

"Hmmm. My stick sense is tingling. I’m about to get hurt."
- James Robinson

"They eventually landed safely in the South Pacific. Many countries offered water recovery assistance. Even countries like Paraguay and Czechoslovakia volunteered. They don’t even have coastlines!"
- Commander James Lovell, speaking at the University of Maryland

"Snickers really satisfies me… not sexually, of course."
- Andrew Ellis

"You want to run that through me again?"
- James Robinson

"My butt consumes food like anything!"
- Lisa Moyer

"Who’s playing, people or kids?"
- Angie Moyer, referring to a Jeopardy game

"Damn you and your incontrofutable logic!"
- Michael Moyer

"You know my girlfriend’s a vegetation, which pretty much makes me... wait..."
- James Robinson doing a Pulp Fiction impression

"Escape immediately! If not sooner."
- James Robinson

"Ewoks taste like chicken."
- James Robinson

"Yeah, but think: The people who could have her are the people who could have anybody. And of all the people who are anybody, she's only one."
- Michael Moyer, discussing the marriage potential of Kathy Ireland

"Well, don’t speak before your chickens are counted."
- Michael Moyer

"What time is my one o'clock class?"
- Larry Duva

"Macs are weak and helpless. They’d never survive in the wild."
- Andrew Ellis

"That must tickle, having a car drive all over your body."
- Michael Moyer, talking about a commercial he’d just seen

"Error writing to brain…"
- Joseph Duva

"It’s been gone for years to come."
- James Robinson

"Oooh! I wanna see the sound!"
- Joseph Duva

"Rob, don’t make me come over there and let you beat me up."
- James Robinson

"Ewww. You taste like liquid oxygen."
- Robin Beach, making an Abyss reference

"‘You cretins! You are nothing more than apes to me! I’ve written computer programs smarter than you!’"
- Brian Renn, doing an impression of Dr. Reggia, logic professor

"I hope I’m inside and out of the outside by that point."
- Michael Moyer

"Now that’s perfection at it’s best."
- Robin Beach

"I could pull a universe out of my ass right now… if my ass was heated to 1000 trillion trillion degrees."
- Michael Moyer

"That’s what I would do if I didn’t want me to know who I was."
- Michael Moyer

"Man cannot live on solitaire alone. Hmmm… that’s almost redundant."
- Liam Davitt

"You'd better stay awake when you go to sleep tonight."
- Andy Ellis, threatening John

"Man, my notes from the second half of the semester equal all my notes from the first half of the semester combined."
- Michael Moyer

"All the world's a stage, and the people merely players. Men are writing the script, and the women can't act."
- Michael Moyer

"Who's that tall, daft-looking fuck?"
- Liam Davitt, trying to remember someone from a movie

"We all know where grenades come from...Grenada."
- James Robinson

"'Rough Sex' is pretty good...Or so I hear."
- Larry, referring to a Lords of Acid song

"Who's the short guy with the force?"
- Wendy, talking about Yoda

"Great Expectations was such a boring book. If anyone ever bought me that I'd shove it up their ass! How's that for great expectaions?"
- Robin Beach, on a scene in The Cutting Edge

"My [Computer Science] 420 professor gets paid $130,000 a year to put us to sleep. I don't even think anesthesiologists make that much."
- Andrew Ellis

"Who cares about the Canadians? There are no black people in Canadia."
- James Robinson

"It slows down a few octaves."
- James Robinson

"In the future, we’ll all be replaced by stuffed animals."
- Michael Moyer

"You’re luring yourself into a false sense of insecurity."
- Andrew Ellis

"Danger Mouse is the best thing to come out of Britain since...Americans."
- Andrew Ellis

"Three is kind of an odd number to have in a car. Actually, three is kind of an odd number to start with."
- Michael Beabout

"I hope I live to be that long."
- Michael Moyer

"I have a big bruise on my leg where the train hit me."
- Lynn Richardson

"You can only kill someone so much before they die."
- Robin Beach

"The best military organization to join would be the National Guard, followed by the post office, followed by the Air Force..."
- James Robinson

"Oh please. Any moron with half a brain knows that a recursive-chain-matrix algorithm is obviously faster than an exhaustive search of all parenthesizations."
- Andrew Ellis, on common sense

"Spring is my favorite pair of seasons."
- Chris Malter, while ogling at a well-endowed young woman.

"Why is no one making an effort to feed me?"
- Liam Davitt

Mike: Where did you find that leaf?
Mary I got it from a leaf farm.
Mike: A leaf farm?
Mary Yeah.
Mike: You mean a place where a lot of leaves grow together?
Mary That's right.
Mike: Like a tree?

Mary: Does venison taste like chicken?
Mike: Not really. It tastes more like...deer.
Andy: Oh yeah Mike, like you know what deer tastes like.
Mike: Venison is deer.

"Once I blow my own head off, then you can use the gun. I would blow your head off for you, but I won't be able to see you after I blow my head off."
- Larry Duva

Mike: The U.S. is such a great country.
John: Yeah, God bless the almighty 'Stars and Bars.'
Mike: John, that's the Confederacy.
John: Oh.