QUOTES FROM:

MR. MCGRATH!!!

it's like you're climbing up a ladder crawling."

"goes in all three? i'm HAPPY!"

"negative 17 is a loser."

"maybe he's a hypochondriac, but he's thinking up mathematics, at least."

"to him, it's a hexagon. to the rest of the world? it's an octagon."

"dammit! where's the nearest stop sign?"

"now again, i know i'm a teacher talking..."

"i'm going to sell you into slavery!"

"if you fly in a straight line, you'll leave the atmosphere and never come back. you'll go bye-bye."

"it walks like a chicken, squacks like a chicken...well, i don't know if ducks squack or not..."

"you don't know what i'm going to focus on. it might be seven!"

"the problem is not evil. he's not slamming your heritage. there is no evilness here."

"the additive inverse? you should have known that in 6th grade...5th...kindergarten...the womb!"

"so there were all these people in line, and i'm thinking, 'what are they selling? are they selling ham?' "

"nobody liked him. maybe mom, but maybe not. mom might not be able to like him."

"the test isn't to make you feel bad. i can do that just fine."

"although i don't know who...who? who."

"clinton, don't make me come over and beat you."

"i've already used those words and no one's fallen out of their chair."

jessie - "that problem was evil." mr mcg - "well, you're an evil student."

"if you were a little computer in first grade..."

"how many parts are there to a triangle? 3, right? there's a lot more parts to a chicken!"

"i used to be cool."

"and i'd send clinton out to find the gunman. 'your calculator vs. mine!' "

emma - "brian's crazy." mr mcg - "that's true."

"i have to sit down for this! is it friday?"

"when you're dancing, and one person's going the wrong way, that's me."

"he likes you, so maybe he'd just like you to drop dead so he could take over."

liz - "don't even talk to me." mr mcg - "don't worry, i won't."

"add angle y plus z...i'll try that again. plus w...let me try that a third time!"

"i'd have been pleased if he said, 'mr mcgrath, though i'm a student struggling in this math class, i'd like to point out...' "

"my eight year old nephew is smarter than you guys."

"i'm not in the real world either."

"if you cut through the bone...sorry. at least i didn't do the sawing sound."

"i can say that i'm six feet tall, but i'm not."

"but then, years later, i though, 'hey! that's not a triangle!'"

"there are little major ideas here."

"PIKE! pulling random numbers here."

"if i double this way, and double that way, aren't i doubling, doubling, doubling..."

"we had a little pythagorean theorem action!"

"a triangle in that blankety blank bookcase."

"oooh, i'm doing LOGIC today!"

"it's written to be language free."

"the guidance counselors are kicking it up a notch."

"everybody's eating it. it's cool! i'll be cool, i'll be cute. i mean, think about TOOTHPASTE!"

"well, what property are you using, little kids?"

"if you were blind, you'd be at a loss here. we'd have a real problem."

"it'll go into your head by osmosis."

"negative six is a jerkamo."

"we hung around; i didn't get arrested or anything...but when i woke up, i was crying. my wife had to slap me a little."

"credit cards? i have a couple. my wife has, oh, i don't know, 80? sears, macys..."

"[the lockdown] is like a big, co-ed sleep over!"

yeah, so that's about it. freshman year is over, and i won't have mr mcgrath again until senior year (i hope i get him then). anyway, you might be wondering who this "mcgrath" guy is. Mr. McGrath was my Course 2 Algebra teacher. He was extremely cool and very funny, and these are just some of the weird and funny things he said during the year. i kept them all written down in my notebook. the other people in some of the quotes are: jessie (that's me, silly), emma (that's my friend emma. she helped me make this site. thanks, emma.), brian (he's in our math class too. he really is crazy. but we like him.), liz (she's also in the class. she's my friend too, but a bit...well, loud? is that the word?), and clinton. he's the source of many mcgrath quotes. clinton isn't really our friend in particular (cept for brian. they talk about anime together. it's a little weird.), but he has this graphing calculator and it makes him quite...well...arrogant. mr mcgrath likes him, but often makes fun of him and stuff. just because mr mcgrath is cool. that's it. you can go now. by the way, you're listening to "ana ng" by they might be giants, unless you turned off your speakers in order to regain your sanity.

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