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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 06:26 PM
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Poll question: Favorite fictional professor
Edited on Thu Oct-29-09 06:41 PM by pokerfan
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PassingFair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 06:30 PM
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1. What? No Dumbledore?
http://blog.sanriotown.com/b-side:mymelody.com/files/2007/10/albus_dumbledore.jpg
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 06:40 PM
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2. I've never seen or read HP
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 08:06 PM
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15. Maybe you should skip Gilligan's Island for a week to read it?
:P
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Twillig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 06:42 PM
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3. Wernstrom!!
He owns Professor Farnsworth in all ways.

Nevermind the undeserved A- he received at his hands.
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 07:14 PM
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4. He gets points for the ponytail (n/t)
Edited on Thu Oct-29-09 07:14 PM by pokerfan
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 07:18 PM
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5. Professor Ned Brainard
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yawnmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 07:20 PM
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6. No jones?
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poiuytsister Donating Member (591 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 07:24 PM
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8. Absolutely Jones, duh!
I love the co-ed in his class with "love you" written on her eyelids.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 09:12 PM
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27. Ooh! Gets my vote for sure!
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 11:19 PM
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36. +1, that was who popped into my mind immediately n/t
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 07:21 PM
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7. Professor Snape
*swoon*
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NecklyTyler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 07:25 PM
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9. Doctor Emmett Lathrop "Doc" Brown
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poiuytsister Donating Member (591 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 07:27 PM
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10. Julius Kelp
Aww... That's no way to talk. Tsk, tsk, tsk. "What'll it be?" That's no way to treat a customer. C'mere. Try it like this. Pay attention. You'll feel better and the customers'll be happier. Try this: "What'll it be? Hmmm?"
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Graybeard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 07:50 PM
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11. Prof. Barnhardt, a very thinly veiled Albert Einstein.
Played by Sam Jaffe who had graduated City College of NY and studied Engineering at Columbia University. Movie lore says that Jaffe provided the calculus equations on the blackboard himself, making sure that they were all accurate (except of course the ones that Klaatu corrects.)
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El Supremo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 08:11 PM
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17. Yes!
"They allow me to travel the galaxy." Or something like that.
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Graybeard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 08:21 PM
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22. Barnhardt: "Sit down please...
...there are several thousand questions I'd like to ask you."
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Flaxbee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 07:56 PM
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12. Hm. Can't decide between Barnhardt or Seldon
Well, my husband probably couldn't decide between the two. I'll choose Dumbledore :)
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kayakjohnny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 08:00 PM
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13. Probably these two....



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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 08:04 PM
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14. Indiana Jones!
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david13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 08:06 PM
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16. Dr. Pangloss.
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 08:17 PM
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19. ..
Edited on Thu Oct-29-09 08:18 PM by jobycom
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El Supremo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 08:13 PM
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18. What ? No Jerry Lewis?
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Whoa_Nelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 08:18 PM
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20. Mr. Chips?
:( Goodbye Mr. Chips :(

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064382/
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 08:18 PM
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21. Zelda Spellman
As a sidenote, try to think of fictional female professors. McGonagal (who was a high school teacher, not a professor by American terms), Zelda (from Sabrina the Teenage Witch), Elaine Miller (from Almost Famous), and Diane Turner (from Back to School), were the only reasonably prominent ones I could think of.

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Duer 157099 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 08:27 PM
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23. I must go with the skull full of mush guy
That was a great show
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canoeist52 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 08:31 PM
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24. Professor Henry Higgins - Rex Harrison in "My fair Lady"
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canoeist52 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 08:36 PM
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25. Professor Harold Hill - Robert Preston in "The Music Man"


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canoeist52 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 08:43 PM
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26. Professor Irwin Corey
"If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going."
- Professor Irwin Corey
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BarbaRosa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-30-09 01:56 PM
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41. 'The World's Foremost Authority'
:thumbsup:
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proteus_lives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 09:53 PM
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28. You forgot Professor Xavier!
"To me, my X-Men!"
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Auggie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 10:04 PM
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29. Moriarty -- one bad dude
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 10:09 PM
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30. Roy Hinkley
Which of those other slackers could have built a fully functional dentist's suite out of bamboo and thatch?


Yet somehow the esoteric art of the boatwright managed to elude him.
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bluesbassman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 10:59 PM
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31. Professor Abraham Van Helsing.




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cemaphonic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 11:02 PM
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32. Charles Kinbote.
If that is his real name...
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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 11:13 PM
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34. We musicians have a saying, "Too hip for the room.".
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cemaphonic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 11:23 PM
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37. Oh trust me, I can do it with music too.
OTOH, someone else downthread posted Nabokov's *other* famous mentally-ill academic. So I'm not the only one.
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hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 11:08 PM
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33. Buckaroo Banzai
"You can check your anatomy all you want, and even though there may be normal variation, when it comes right down to it, this far inside the head it all looks the same. No, no, no, don't tug on that. You never know what it might be attached to."

and

"Hey, hey, hey, hey-now. Don't be mean; we don't have to be mean, cuz, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
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nolabear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 11:13 PM
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35. Humbert Humbert
though I may take some heat for being so fascinated by someone who, by the simplest explanation, is a pedophile. He's a great delusional literary character, though, and I have to confess Jeremy Irons' audio book version of Lolita makes me weak in the knees.
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Vidar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-30-09 04:42 AM
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38. Hari Seldon. I miss Asimov.
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AsahinaKimi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-30-09 05:03 AM
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39. Why No Dr. Jones?
Edited on Fri Oct-30-09 05:04 AM by AsahinaKimi

I love Indiana Jones... and Harrison Ford is great!!
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Phoebe Loosinhouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-30-09 06:57 AM
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40. My sweet Professor Pnin
One of my all time favorite books

Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
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Gidney N Cloyd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-30-09 02:11 PM
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42. Waldo Wigglesworth


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Ikonoklast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-30-09 02:28 PM
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43. "Good news, everybody!"
"You are all going to die in a hideously painful and gruesome manner! Ta-ta, now!"
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Tikki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-30-09 03:12 PM
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44. Oooh...Charlie and Amita...


p.s. Amita is, also, a professor...


Tikki
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