Fidel, or Che or Mao, Oh my!
June 7, 2008At the final regular meeting for Hellenistic Philosophy, my professor’s beard (started 1.5 months ago?) had grown into a bushy maturity. He was wearing a khaki military cap with the socialist red star; a statement, a fashion mishap or attempted contrarianism were the three possibilities I wondered while thinking if he combed his beard “with the grain” or against it.
With anglo features he looked less like the Socialist cannibal Che than Woody Allen in Bananas, especially since he was wearing glasses. Anyway, he looked thoroughly ridiculous.
If I ever become a teacher, I think there are some better transformation tricks to be played on students:
- Grow a Charlie Chaplin/Adolf Hitler mustache. Everytime you want to be nice or funny to your students you don the bowler, and yell out “Chaplin!”, proceeding to be funny and kind. But if the students become slack or unruly, you leave the hat off, scream, “Heil!” and wildly gesticulate in a fury of rhetoric.
- Wear a fat suit the entire semester- then during the final, leave the room and slip out of the suit. When you come back every one will be bewildered and if anyone asks, just enthusiastically blurt out, “it’s a boy!.”
- Dress like Gene Wilder’s Willy Wonka. They won’t be able to tell if you are Willy Wonka or Prince.
- Wear a T-shirt that says, “Ask a question, get an F” To really make it tortuous, wear an afro rainbow wig with a flashing l.e.d. array and then refuse to say anything to start the class. Someone’s bound to ask a question, and when they do, you can say, “This was a test about following directions. You failed.”
That made me laugh out loud! I love all of those ideas… maybe I will use one for my class next year. Perhaps the fat suit idea.
I always liked the idea of giving out goodies at the end of the year, like ice cream especially if you never did before.
Or… for the appropriate gender, dress as a wicked witch and hand out nice shiny polished red apples to all the little pretties who gave you a hard time during the year.
you kill me with the humor! You will be a great teacher one day! I think the hitler mustache would be perfect but you might get sued.
Maybe I like the fourth idea the best with the clown wig, and the t-shirt that says “ask a question and you get an f”. Not to mention the flashing lights. LMAO. Your humor makes my stomach hurt because I laugh so hard.
ya it is so cool today that teachers and professors idolize murderous thugs as if they are just misunderstood…assholes. The sad part is down in Miami, there are several thousand families down there that escaped Cuba, who have personal knoqwledge of both Castro and Che’s brutality. they are nothing more than murderous thugs who have killed MILLIONS of innocent Freedom loving people with their desire for Government control over people in the form of FUCKING COMMUNISM…Why dot our fine institutions of learning teach you this??? Rhetorical question..I know the answer to it..because if you can do, you do..if you cant you teach…in other words these professors are incompetent to make a buck on the outside so they spread their Marxist/Communist ideas in the class room to young skulls of mush who really dont know squat and are ripe for the brainwashing…old communist trick.