he is no little mino

alright, here are some great quotes from dr. guy lalande. i love this guy. he is so french, and innocent, he's just the nicest man around. from his love of trains, to the his love of goat's milk, lalande can't help but bring a smile to your face. so here we go!

"i guess he does not care for the Mandate of Heaven" - refering to a guy in our class who did not know what the chinese mandate of heaven was.

"they take the scissors, then BANG!!! the bag is gone!" - talking about eunuchs.

"proof is in the pudding" - he says this in about every class.

"sometimes you have to lick the boots to get a promotion"

"they were no small minos" - he's always calling someone not a small mino

"i love playing with that" - he says while moving around his beloved overhead

"my dear little rascals" - what he called us when we could not remember some capitals in china

"the romans fell in love with silk, and who wouldn't? am i right ladies?"

"silk is mainly for the ladies.... but sometimes wrestlers"

"he was vigorous in the battlefield....and elsewhere!" - refering to kang xi having lots of kids

"i must have been hit by a coconut this morning" - trying to thing of exam questions

"that was before they came to antigonish, to make these wonderful chinese restaurants" - chinese migration

"ahhhhh these chalks, will they ever build ones that don't break?"

"the coming buddha was supposed to usher the millenium, not the millenium centre here" - the millenium centre is the name of the rink/gym here

"to me that's noise " - talking about the beatles

"shit on that"

"you know what happened to pinnochio when he lied... you will come to class with a big nose" - asking if we read our homework

"bye bye man... don't let the bugs bite" - chinese woman getting the right to divorce their husbands

"some of you know i'm a maniac for little intros"

"it's like 3 inches of peanut butter on a piece of toast, it makes you sick!"

"the spanish flu is back" - 8am class with a lot of people missing

"is it not beautiful" - talking about a map

"when technology was invented, i was not around" - trying to get basically anything to work

"who stole franz ferdinand? you wouldn't do that" - couldnt find picture of FF he passed around

"what are you?" - asking a girl her name

"you must be a holy man... is he?" - asking us about some jacob guy in our class

"anyone have a PHD in technology in this class?" - could not get overhead to work

"welt-politik doesn't scare my cat, its just a concept... i have no cats"

"young frisky colt chomping at the bit" - says this nearly everyday

"rascals" - talking about austria-hungry's view of italy for backing out of the war

"come on baby!" - zooming in on map with overhead

not a quote but action: *runs into class, sees overhead projector, smiles in bliss*

"proud as a herd and a half of peacocks"

"is it poodles or puddles?"

"urine, as yellow as it is, had some vitue" - people pissing on rags and holding it over there face to avoid poison gas on the front