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#1580 Up↑ /91 Down↓ [Report] 2010-12-19 16:32 EST
//update to quote 592
Student: Mr. Boericke, is it true that you killed an alligator before?
Mr. Boericke: Well. Technically, I didn't KILL it, but I still feel really really bad about it.
Mr. Boericke: When I was in the army, our team was put up on top of this hill during training and there was nothing but marsh all around us. We had this mortar with us and one of us spotted an alligator like 5 miles away, so we did all the calculations, someone else put the shell in and we hit it spot on.
Mr. Boericke: I still feel really bad about it and to this day, I regret doing that.
Student: Wait, but it wasn't YOU who killed it.
Mr. Boericke: Right, but I still sat around and giggled like an idiot. -
#1579 Up↑ /46 Down↓ [Report] 2010-12-19 16:25 EST
// The class interrogates Mr. Boericke about his life.
Student: Mr. Boericke, you've done like everything! Have you ever gone skydiving?
Mr. Boericke: *Pauses* No, but I've jumped out of a plane.
Student 1: I heard you did martial arts.
Mr. Boericke: Yeah, I did martial arts for 20 years.
Student 2: ...are you a ninja? -
#1578 Up↑ /59 Down↓ [Report] 2010-12-19 16:22 EST
// Mr. Boericke goes on a tangent instead of telling us about Social Security.
Mr. Boericke: And notice the huge difference in the money you get if you retire at 62 and if you retire at 70. They try to get you to work til 70 and they're DESPERATELY hoping you die before then.
Mr. Boericke: But I'll probably make it. Nobody in my family gets dementia or Alzheimer's...although my grandfather did get a little senile...
Mr. Boericke: He lived in this nice old folk's home and it had this big window overlooking a pond with ducks in it.
Mr. Boericke: He would say that the ducks were watching him and reporting him whenever he did something bad. -
#1577 Up↑ /58 Down↓ [Report] 2010-12-19 16:14 EST
Mr. Boericke: Why am I so much farther ahead in this class than the other?
Class: You haven't gone on a tangent yet.
Mr. Boericke: *pauses* Oh, that's right. I did go on a tangent in the other class.
*silence*
Class: That's your cue to go on a tangent.
*Boericke proceeds to tell the class why Bloomberg could be the next president* -
#1576 Up↑ /23 Down↓ [Report] 2010-12-19 16:11 EST
// update to quote 1306
// A student has asked about Sharkey
Mr. Boericke: Yeah, I saw that quote. They said something about Sharkey being able to open beer bottles with his toes or something. That's not what it was.
Class: Wait, so what was it?
Mr. Boericke: My mother's first boyfriend was from the Jersey Shore and he was a lifeguard. It was that he could crush cans with his bare feet.
Mr. Boericke: And yeah, one day there was a hurricane and his lifeguard chair was swept out, so he went to save it and he was never heard from again. -
#1306 Up↑ /58 Down↓ [Report] 2010-05-16 12:10 EDT
// Talking about the Jersey Shore in econ
Mr. Boericke: My mother's first boyfriend was from the Jersey Shore. He was a lifeguard named Sharkey and he could open beer bottles with his toes.
Mr. Boericke: Then one day there was a hurricane and Sharkey went down to the beach to save the lifeguard chair.
Mr. Boericke: He was never heard from again.
Class: *silence* -
#1093 Up↑ /60 Down↓ [Report] 2010-03-22 18:24 EDT
// Some questions from Mr. Boericke's econ tests.
Which of the following best describes the relationship between price and demand for a product?
A) Demand varies directly with changes in price.
B) Demand varies inversely with changes in price.
C) Demand is not affected by changes in price.
D) All of the above - demand is a slippery and amorphous thing.
What is a disadvantage of the barter system?
A) Matching needs is an issue (a plumber with a toothache needs to find a dentist with a leaky pipe).
B) There is no store of value.
C) Both of the above answers are correct.
D) There are no disadvantages - barter is still the way God intended us to do business.
What reason do we have for studying perfect competition when competition is never perfect?
A) It is useful to understand the concepts of supply and demand as they relate to price so that the results can be used to model real-world competition, though it may be far from perfect.
B) Americans love competition, perfect or imperfect.
C) There is no reason - this is not the first or last piece of useless information you'll learn in high school.
D) All of the above. -
#966 Up↑ /66 Down↓ [Report] 2010-01-18 15:11 EST
Student: Mr. Boericke is having us watch Capitalism, A Love Story for an extra credit project.
Student: But it's not in theaters anymore and it hasn't come out on DVD yet, so we have to torrent an illegal bootlegged version of the film.
Student: So now we're sticking it to the man in two ways.
