The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, October 3, 1997 Page: 20 of 20
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Rearless backpage editor Terry Cartter (that's with two "t's," brother) watches as her evil partner, an unnamed Jones senior, gets his watch snatched by James "The
Amazing" Randi. Randi, a famous scientist and paranormaf debunker, addressed a capacity audience in the Physics amphitheater on Monday.
Amazing Randi misclass:
li I'm wrong on this, I II have ui kill
mvsclf,
- Scientist and paranormal debunker
I.imes "The Amazing* Randi ai
Monday's lecture in the Physics Amp.
- Amazing Randi s not so-subtle
request for applause after a magic
i rick.
I was hcrcjto lecture] sonic years
agn, hut I spent that money already,
so I'm hack.
Amazing Randi explaining his
teiurn visit to Rice
'What a budget."
An unimpressed Amazing Randi as
he picked up a piece pi Physics Amp
chalk
"Ooohhh, the chest hairs."
AmanngRandi as he removed his
hidden microphone.
They hand them a piece of paper wirh
a ribbon around it and ta-da! The
heavens open up and they are forever
incapable of error. "
— More Amazing Randi on Ph.Ds.
"Oh shit" is not a scientific expres-
sion,"
Amazing Randi on swearing.
Don't laugh. This is science "
— Amazing Randi.
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"We try to titiiate your fancies •—
that's not a dirty word — I looked it
up before*! came here."
"Mr Amazing Randi showing off his
He must not know Dr. Dunning. We've racy vocabulary.
heard him say both those things: "I was
"Water? Yecchh, I thought; it was
vodka."
Amazing Randi aftei drinking Rice
water. .
It may have not been vodka, but if it
came from a Rice tap, it probably wasn 't
water either.
"We have something due in there
Wednesday? Oh shit, I have to drop
that,"
— Jones junior.
Remember kids, "Oh shit" is not
appropriate for scifnct.
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"What is sex like ... uh, I mean, what
is love like?"
—Dr. Grob. ENGL 321.
"1 don't know. I was wrong. 1 have
never heard a Ph.D. utter those two
things."
— Amazing Randi's experience wirh
I'h.Ds.
wrong (to let you take this class), "and "I
don V know (if there is a med school that
will take an imbecile like you). "
There will now be a short apprecia-
i ion in honor of my skill."
I have a theory about Ph.Ds. Do you
/ant to hear tt? — it's only a theory."
Not so Amazing Misclass:
"J forgot 1 had a private member
down here."
— Ken Kennedy, COMP 314.
Student 1: So F was thinking,
hypOthetically, if I'm really interested
in the girl next door, and we sleep like
two feet apart, separated only by a ...
thin wall, then it's like a motel, and
tfie people next door are having sex.
Student 2: Yeah, but this isn't a
motel, and you guys aren't having sex.
Student 1: Oh. Yeah, 1 guess you're
right. Damn.
Unless you live in the Wiess five-man —
home of George Fotinos.
Waitstaff & Delivery Drivers
Three locations
Are ,mt
worfcstudy?
"If I was a caveman, I would never
have had my bonking experience."
— Overheard at Hanszen.
Was that you Dennis?
"This thing is way too big to straddle
Comfortably."
Lovett female sitting on a footrc ."
while auditioningfor the Brown
College musical.
Too big for the stripper who straddled
Ben Ziker at Hanszen Mardi Gras?
Top Ten Things at Hanszen's
Mardi Gras Party
10- The wig.
9. The weenie squirt gun
8. Carrie Covington.
7. The lick.
6. Scared parents,
5, Michelob ... nice choice.
4. Pete Clarke's broken nose.
3. "You must get oft my face, ;ahora.r
2. Pasties! Pasties! Pasties!
1. The moment Stormy stepped off
the stage.
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