Last semester I posted some amusing quotes from professors. Check it out, it's funny. The professors at my school make the whole experience that much better, and I always feel satisfied with my decision to go here. Granted, if I could just transport the entire facility (including faculty) to Seattle, I'd be happier, but it's an imperfect world.
Well, it's that time again, now that classes for the semester are over. Here you will find some amusing moments. Some of them are more amusing than others, and there are probably a few that are only really funny to people in my class. Nevertheless, I hope you enjoy them.
We're lawyers, we rule others with our, "quack quack quack." -Contracts
...and he wants to celebrate the Summer Solstice with his Druid friends... -Property
[Hypothetical . . . Pause] By the way, this is what oral arguments are like, the judges ask you questions and present hypotheticals like this. [Pause] Except that they expect you to respond. -Contracts
The Eagles need to be able to flush the toilets. They'll be short meetings, otherwise. -Property
That's gotta be annoying, you're having fun with friends and next thing you know you are out a finger. -Torts
[Displaying what a party's testimony may have looked like] "Well, they may have said something about her being brain damaged . . . I don't recall. . ." -Contracts
I'm having a little bit of a freaky moment right now. -Property
Try [to] do that right. -Appellate Advocacy
We love pigs. -Property
It's always fun to plead a tort. -Contracts
I was approached before class to find out whether or not ghosts have to be disclosed in a home sale. There is remarkably little case law. -Contracts [Coincidentally, later in the semester we read Stambovsky v. Ackley, 169 A.D.2d 254 (1991), which addressed exactly this issue.]
There's not really a different standard for fraud for morons. -Contracts
It may not be a nuisance, but it's certainly annoying. -Property
We don't want to look into why someone would want to move to Utah. -Civil Procedure
I can hardly understand that, but I think I understand it enough to say that it's a bad argument. -Property
What if you were hunting with beagles instead of hounds of imperial stature? -Property
. . .and these are especially dangerous fights because they are packin' heat. -Property
There's nothing amusing about Civil Procedure. -Civil Procedure
Holy contractual oversight, Batman. -Contracts
This is America, we put a dollar value on everything! -Contracts
They were going to kill her and, you know, that's not nice. -Civil Procedure
She's a speech and language teacher, she knows more diphthongs or something. -Contracts
The actual purpose was to discriminate against hippies. -Constitutional
But, and this is a big but . . . that didn't sound quite right. -Constitutional
It’s always nice to see your contracts professor being sued. -Contracts
Those are awesome! I especially like the property ones.
Someone in our section recorded our "evil genius" civ pro prof for the first time ever admitting someone might have a valid argument and mixed it into a song, which he later included on a "finals CD."
That's great, I love it! And yeah, Prof. Property was in fine form this semester. It was pretty fun.
Somehow THIS is far more exciting than anything that made it into my outline. Why can't this be on the test.
I think you and I would be the only ones who would ace it. Now that I think of it, that's not a bad idea.