The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, November 21, 1997 Page: 16 of 16
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to Waste Space
on the Back
10. Your mom needs our
love, too.
9. We couldn't make the
headline font big enough
to fit the whole page.
8. You call that Misclass?
7. The Pub was calling —
beer specials four nights
a week — plus all the
loving Stew Schmella has
to give.
6. New "South Park" this
week.
5. Roommate's parents got
you drunk at Tortuga.
4. Carrie Covington ...
there, you got your name
on the Backpage again.
3. Angels, angels, angels.
2. The Thresher is not
really a newspaper:
1. The limericks Rally
Club submitted were too
vulgar to print in this age
of Backpage censorship.
more Tones misclass,
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"When I'm dune playing. I'll taHe it
off."
— Jones sophomore.
"Alright. somebody else say something
stupid. Thank you."
— Jones sophomore.
Oh, we think Jones has, already taken
rare of that
"When you spin, be sure to keep your
righi leg tucked in, so you're, uh, a
compact turning thing."
— Ms. Chris Lidvall, HPER 101.
Ballroom Dance Lecturer.
And that's what it's all about.
"There is a higher probability that you
will be closer to your rooit] than your
mother But occasionally, when you're
at class, she may go by your room and,
uh, look under the mattress.''
— Dr. Hutchinson, CHEM 101,
talks about your mom, Part 1
"^PPhich would pass the characteristic
of being in the way to me, lime-boy."
Jones sophomore.
This is why the administration separates
Janes from all of the other colleges.
"I personally think that the strip clubs
should be closer to the churches so
people would have a reason to go to
church."
.■4 Dr Soligo, ECON 438, on 1
Houston sexually oriented business
laws.
Hey, free grape juice and crackers are
reason enough to get us there.
"Wheat? Why would you want to kill
wheat?"
Will Kice Freshman, on weed
killer.
For the same reason we want to destroy
Rice: people like you!
"We couldn't dance because we
couldn't get away from the other
couples! They were like little dancing
sharks, circling closer and closer "
• Same Will Rice freshman.
"I'm just suggesting there may be
something under your mattress, or
wherever you may hide things. "
Dr. Hutchinson, CHEM 101,
talks about your mom, Part II.
"Man, I'm sputtering like, uh, a mad
sputterer." ■
— Betty Scto, Will Rice.
"And I don't want to see this in print.
Great, now I'll be on the backpage of
the Thresher again. So please, just
forget all about this horrid analogy."
-~Dr. Hutchinson, CHEM 101,
talks about your mom, Part 111.
Done «
"My mind is blank. Theory of
Relativity ... what's his name?"
Dr. Soligo, ECON 438, on
Einstein.
"Oh, we didn't drink much in middle
school. Just occasionally."
~~ Will Rice freshman.
This is what becomes of those kids who
ate glue and sniffed rubber cement in
second grade.
"Actually, it has been a good day, but
not just because I've been feeling my
pants."
Jones junior.
There were no chariots, and anyone
who says different dies."
Dr I'uiju, HUMA 101.
"1 don't want to give you an inaccu-
rate answer, so I ask that you forget
the question instead."
Dr. Hutchinson, CHEM 101.
"But they call it a boner."
— WRC sophomore.
No, it's Trench, it's ban-ay. As in Lisa
lionet from the Cosby Show, foot.
"I'm Josh Baker, superstar."
- ~ Josh Baker, Jones superstar.
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Hardi, Joel & Siy, Angelique. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, November 21, 1997, newspaper, November 21, 1997; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth246608/m1/16/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.