yay, i have typed them all up again.. new and improved. ok it made me really mad, because I spent a really long time typing all these quotes up, and I looked here today, and they are all gone. ><. somehow they were deleted. so that's my story.. but that doesn't really matter now, since i have typed them up again! enjoy..

Quotes
(Yes, I am aware that the correct word is quotations since quote is a verb..)

Also, most quotes are in order of when I added them to this page, the most recent additions being at the top.

7/20/05
Whiting - "I AM A GIRL!!!!"

Mr. Martinez - "What kind of trees are redwoods?"
Tony - "big."

Mr. Martinez - "What's that one called again? Ep___?"
Whiting - "It's spelled E-L space N-I-Ñ-O. Like with the Ñ." (that quote doesn't seem that funny on it's own, because it's really the context of it..)

Mr. Martinez - "O yea, I told you guys about when the Reagan administration said that the trees were pollution the atmosphere..."
Ms. Sjoberg - "What was that? I don't think we were old enough to remember that."
Mr. Martinez - "... oh. she's getting me back."

Tony - "Okay, this is a little off topic, but I am wondering why the toilets flush one way in one hemisphere and the other way in the other hemisphere."
Mr. Martinez - ...
Tony - "because someone from my old school told me that."
Mr. Martinez - "Well, I don't usually look."
class - "hahahah."
Mr. Martinez - "What? Do you watch the little boats go down? (looks sheepish) Okay.. I'm done.."

Mr. Martinez - "It's called scrubland. And it's ugly. Well, it's probably beautiful to people that study it, but I have yet to see the world through their glasses."

Tony - "JOHN! we should do a skit of our reproductive systems! You and me, male and female!"

Mr. Martinez - (gives the slip of paper to Ye Li for the human body projects)
Ye Li - *shakes head and won't touch the paper*
Mr. Martinez - "What? You can touch the paper!"

John: (during a game of Egyptian ratscrew) "omg..he came back from the dead!"

from the day of a lab
Mr. Martinez - "You're a grazer; you are always eating small amounts of food constantly."

Wed. before the midterm
Mr. Martinez - "Thank you, thank you for being here." (to Ms. Sjoberg after she has explained something to the class)
Ms. Sjoberg - "See, ladies.. they always come crawling back."

7/15/05
Mr. Martinez - (for our quiz right after Ms. Sjoberg finished lecturing) "So 9 out of 10 students in the class have a recessive disorder. . . called Sleepysjoberg Syndrome."
Ms. Sjoberg - "The abuse, the abuse.."

Mr. Martinez - “I don’t know if someone made fun of you before for drawing stick figures. If you don’t do it, you have a void in your life and you don’t know it.”

(ok, John, I won't write the original quote.. but it was funny... hair and tape..)
John - "... Okay, I shouldn't have said that out loud because now you are going to write it down and put it on the website!! What have I done to you?!"

7/13/05
Mr. Martinez - "Everytime I go to Burger King I pick off a part of a fern. I don't pick the whole, thing, just a little bit. But they probably don't like it, because they think I go to destroy their plants, but don't eat there."
Evelyn - "Well, maybe you should dig up the whole plant and plant it in your backyard."
Mr. Martinez - "WHAT?!?! You are telling me to go work at Burger King?!"

7/1/05
Mr. Martinez – “Nowadays, there is phenalalanine in strong gums.”
(Ms. Sjoberg takes out a pack of gum; they read the ingredients)
Ms. Sjoberg – “Yea, this has phenalalanine in it.”
Mr. Martinez – “Now you understand Ms. Sjoberg a bit better.”
Class – ooooooooooo
Ms. Sjoberg – “See the abuse I get? Hey, who’s glad that I came this week? *looks around the room* Oh, only one person raised their hand?”

Mr. Martinez – “There is a specific enzyme called aminoacyl. Can everyone say that out loud?”
The class – …
Mr. Martinez – “Everyone always thinks that I’m swearing.”
Class – Hahahaha

The Mating Game
(from that day we did the population genetics and evolution lab.)

Mr. Martinez – (referring to the class) “No, they can’t mate until they go through meiosis.”

Mr. Martinez – “Still mating?”

Mr. Martinez – “No, it’s random. When it comes time, just look into your partner’s eyes and lay a card down.”

Mr. Martinez – “John! Mating with everyone? What is this? Santa Barbara?”

Ms. Sjoberg – “Okay, I think I missed Jessica. You weren’t raising your hand high enough. You know that commercial raise your hand? that’s how you have to raise your hand. *starts singing* Raise your hand up…”

James (TA) – “Done mating yet?”
Ariana – “Yea, it’s been 15 minutes! All the babies should be out!”

Mr. Martinez – (talking to Dimitri and Sophia) “Hey, you guys have to put the card back in.”
Dimitri – “Just go.”
Mr. Martinez – (starts smiling) “Haha, just go.

James – “Who didn’t mate? I need a partner. I need someone to mate with.”

From lectures, etc.

Mr. Martinez – “So now you guys don’t have as much homework, as you see from the sheet, but more reading. How many chapters do you have left in the book?”
Someone – “thirty.”
Mr. Martinez – “Oh yea, and 20 more from the book we’re getting next week.”

Mr. Martinez – “You know how they crossed a lion and a tiger in the zoo. A liger. They wouldn’t naturally mate in nature, but they did it in the zoo. *pauses and grins while shaking his head* Haha, they did it.”

Evelyn – “You know, at the Grand Canyon, you can ride your own ass.”