People are watching your hand motions and

Everyone will talk about you behind your back...
Today in Tort Class, this guy, Paul, who is quite friendly actually, went toe-to-toe with Professor Abraham. Abraham was in the middle of one of his extra long speeches about causation. I can't give you the full details of his argument because I was reading a LOST blog at the time, but here is the gist, Abraham says that in Zuchowicz v US, even though the plaintiff was pretty much healthy (except for her endometriosis) when she started taking the drug Danocrine, she should not be entitled to $1M in damages after getting a fatal heart disease and dropping dead after the pharmacist put the wrong dose on her pill bottle because we don't really know if the abnormally high dose of drug is what really killed her. Well, speaking as a scientist we can't really know anything, but we can make a pretty good guess. My guess is that the drug killed her, but more on that in another post.

Ok, so back to Paul. This guy starts by saying, "Sir!" and then esposes three minutes of "blah blah. I love hearing myself talk. blah." (I wished I paid more attention, but I wanted to know about the "Others"). And then he goes to say, "We can't go around sprinkling generalities (he is using his fingers to make sprinkling motions in the air and I look at the girl sitting next to me and we are both laughing) over the entire argument come CROOK or NOOK." (and everyone is looking all puzzled wondering what the hell crooks and nooks are).

The next period before class started, everyone, ~ 30 people, was talking about Paul behind his back. Wait, they weren't talking about him, they were making fun of fun. Sprinkling hand motions and the phrase "crook and nook" abounded. Hilarious!!!

But now I wonder if everyone has been making fun of me behind my back when I say something stupid in class....