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 we were never the quarterbacks of the hockey team. I’ve already missed so many updates, I need to get back to a regular schedule… but I’m a day late with the comic and now it’s 10pm and I’ve got two problem sets to finish by tomorrow. |
 Music is to Tennis as… Wait What?! At first my theory teacher was very intimidating, but after a while I have gotten used to his quirky humor. His favorite thing to do is make analogies, whether they are helpful or not. My favorite moment in class was him screaming at a student for misplacing a sharp: “Why did you put a sharp! Why would you do that! You didn’t follow the directions! That’s like if I told you to wear a blue hat and you wore a red hat! Why did you wear a red hat!” |
February 11th, 2009 at 12:09 am
… because a red hat would make you stand out and be kewl?
February 11th, 2009 at 12:11 am
I wish I had more teachers who made analogies
February 11th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
I have no idea where I heard it, but recently I heard: “Talking about music is like dancing about architecture”.
My brother also told me this one from his creative writing class last week. They had to make up analogies for writing, so he said “Writing fiction is like building a house out of maple syrup”. By which he meant “It takes loads of imagination to do so” but which EVERYONE who has heard that analogy takes as “It’s almost imposible to do and all you’ll ever end up with is a sticky mess”.
February 11th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
Side note: stupid homework.
February 11th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
THIRD COMMENT IN A ROW OH NOES:
I think I should take a music theory class, but I worry that i’ll just end up arguing with the prof about music philosophy and post-modernism.
February 11th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
I make a lot of analogies in my day to day speech. They’re mostly crappy ones. I think this makes me a horrible person.
February 12th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
I have an English teacher who loves to make puns. He’ll call on people and be all “Yes, Stairway to Devin” or mispronounce peoples names to sound like other words. Same for books For example, The Great Gatsby: What if Gatsby was a cheese? The Grated Gatsbrie, SPOILER: he dies so we should call him The Late Gatsby, what if Gatsby sold boxes? The Crate Gatsby. It goes on and on. He’s the… quirkiest teacher I know. Excluding the puns, he also does a bunch of strange things… yell for no reason, make bets with us (like a 1 in like 8 chance, win you get to skip the period, lose you write an essay), and then there’s MTV - Male Team Victory, don’t get me started on that…
February 14th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Haha, quarterbacks of the hockey team… somebody’s seen “Fear of Girls,” I loved that video. Did you know that there’s a sequel, and they’re currently making a third part? It’ll be awesome.
February 15th, 2009 at 8:25 am
i wish i had a teacher like itai_sensei and sean
February 16th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
brains is to brains as brains is to brains
Brains…….
April 13th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
one of my professors likes to use epic analogies (like, literally epic): “why are you trying to be icarus? you don’t need to reach for the sun with this, i just want you to write a paragraph, ok?”
July 25th, 2010 at 9:04 pm
Or some sports, sporto sports guys…
I realize I’m way behind the bandwagon on this comment, but I only just stumbled this comic a few days ago, and have been working to get caught up. I love it!