As Promised
Things I have learned in accounting this week:
1. Skinny people die faster. This has to do with accounting because apparently so do businesses that don't have enough working capital. Somehow a bear analogy was also worked in, but, alas, I cannot remember how.
2. People who write accounting textbooks have odd, yet somehow endearing, senses of humor. An example of this is the example on page 85 which shows the balance sheet for a fictional restaurant supply company owned by a Ms. Susan Plies. Heh heh, Sue Plies. Get it? Sadly, I'm still giggling about it.
3. There is a no-tell Motel in Union, New Jersey, where my professor was once asked if he would like to share the room with his wife for an hour, the whole evening, or all night. This is not a good thing to ask him.
4. If given the opportunity my professor will refuse to pronounce "retained earnings" even remotely correctly, preferring instead "restrained earrings" and "retrained oilings." He always gets a devilish look on his face and winks when I raise my eyebrow at him in response.
5. It's not a good idea for me to re-use notebooks that I haven't properly cleaned out. This is how I end up with things like Sabri's Spring 2004 European/American trip itinerary, various unsent letters, and random notes in Arabic in the middle of definitions of things like "owner's equity" and "promissory notes."
6. I can't keep a straight face when "partner" is repeatedly referred to as "p'ner."
7. "Little Louie Carmine" is just fun to say. And he's from Denver, too.
8. "Debby Does Debits" invariably makes boys think of porn.
Beyond that I'm also debating asking him why he puts little dots in the o's in words that contain double o's like book. At first I was thinking, "Oh how cute, little eyes," but then it dawned on me that they could very well be nipple representations. Ya never know. I wouldn't put it past him.
More next week, I'm sure.
posted by SuperKate @ 12:08 PM
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7 Comments:
I can only say.......... of course they are nipples.
also:
Bless you for taking accouting so I never have to.
All I remember from accounting was that it was the easiest class to fall asleep in, but that the instructors invariably are opposed to sleeping in their classes.
My darling professor likes to make rude comments about the students who fall asleep. But, as the same students are always the ones who fall asleep (there are 2 and it's a class of 8 people) they have no idea. It's greatly amusing.
I never thought I'd end up in an accounting class. It's very sad. But oh well, such is life I suppose... *Sigh*
It sounds as if you are getting a first class education and are relishing this unique opportunity to learn from such a great man. Seriously, isn't it almost impossible to pay attention? Especially in those classes where there's a wall clock right above the professor's head and you keep staring at it convinced that the minute hand must be broken because it's not moving at all. And then there's always some idiot who asks a question right before the end of class...oh, I hope you're not one of those people or I've offended yet again.
Actually, I don't think I've asked a question in class yet this year. QUestion askers drive me crazy. I swear, some days it's good I don't have a clue about guns.
SuperKate makes me think of porn too, not just Debbie and her Debits.
Also I'm helping my friend conduct a poll, which ice cream flavor describes your sexual perception?
Here's the story:
http://notfeelinclever.blogspot.com/2005/06/32-flavors-and-then-some.html
I think the nipples above the "o" are a German thing which is pronounced like we pronounce double "o"s. Have you found any other sexual representations in languange notation?!
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