I belong to a Facebook group that honors Brother Fluhman's awesomeness: "J. Spencer Fluhman is my hero!" It's true. There's a discussion board with classic quotes, so I'm going to share them with you since I've been laughing out loud for the last five minutes reading them. Brooke and Nancy will get an extra kick out of this since they'll be able to hear him in their heads. Maybe Holly will be able to, too, having gone with me once to class. =)
"It's an arrow in your quiver of knowledge... you can pull it out and shoot down ignorance."
(When introducing the course and going over the syllabus)
"What's this? No reading for Thursday or Tuesday and then we go to the library to watch a movie? Is this a religion class or a party?"
"I don't know if we'll finish the course." (he has a knack for getting behind since he's . . . chatty, and goes off on these awesome tangents)
"You throw it out there and I bite like a hungry fish."
"I'm a victim of my own loquacity."
"Pilgrims were separatists and for reasons not entirely clear they wore their belt buckles on their heads."
Showing posts with label Fluhman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fluhman. Show all posts
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Monday, September 8, 2008
Fluhman Rocks
Y'all know how much I loved Brother Fluhman and his classes up at school. I recorded his lectures, transcribed them, and still listen to them to this day. Here is my very favorite off-the-cuff intro he did once; Nancy should appreciate this one since she was there. =) He was talking about how men and women have different definitions of "doing one's hair" and how they discussed this at length in one of his sections. Brooke, cue the Fluhman voice. Go.
"We found that men and women have very different ideas about what that verb entails with regard to hair. It took us some considerable time to chase this down. Apparently for the majority of the women in the class, doing one's hair involves an electrical implement of some sort, and probably product, and considerable time. So one gal had her hair braided, pony tail, fancy, weaving in and out, as braids tend to do. And I said, "Well, you did your hair." And she said, "No." Like, "You're an idiot. You're crazy." I don't wake up with my hair in this perfect weave formation! But see, I didn't know. I didn't know. Because she didn't blow dry or straighten or . . . there's something else. Curl! DID ANY GUY ANSWER THAT?!
"Don't look at me. Same haircut since 1992. But it was interesting to see how people define that. And we took more time than I thought, but I could not follow what they were saying. I could not figure out. She said she had not done her hair, but it was very, very fancy."
"We found that men and women have very different ideas about what that verb entails with regard to hair. It took us some considerable time to chase this down. Apparently for the majority of the women in the class, doing one's hair involves an electrical implement of some sort, and probably product, and considerable time. So one gal had her hair braided, pony tail, fancy, weaving in and out, as braids tend to do. And I said, "Well, you did your hair." And she said, "No." Like, "You're an idiot. You're crazy." I don't wake up with my hair in this perfect weave formation! But see, I didn't know. I didn't know. Because she didn't blow dry or straighten or . . . there's something else. Curl! DID ANY GUY ANSWER THAT?!
"Don't look at me. Same haircut since 1992. But it was interesting to see how people define that. And we took more time than I thought, but I could not follow what they were saying. I could not figure out. She said she had not done her hair, but it was very, very fancy."
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