In a display of male aggression, a California math professor was arrested for scent-marking the office door of a colleague.
Fig. 1. The miscreant.
Evolutionary psychology
January 27, 2011 • 2:41 pm
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He must have been pretty pissed off.
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Our “reptilian brain” takes over perhaps…!
People are willing to do anything for a nicer office these days.
Hmmm, I was rather upset that my department chair assigned me a classroom in the Business Department building for my 9 am class…..
and yes, I am in the mathematics department…
Maybe he misheard ‘peer review’ as ‘pee-er review’…
Cracking up.
Damn, you stepped on my line 🙂
Golden showers in the ivory tower!
“School officials had rigged the camera after discovering puddles of what they thought was urine at the professor’s door.”
So he peed on the door more than once — enough times to prompt school officials to take action… Wow. Just wow.
Alas, poor Uric! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent puddle-making.
I said, “Pi”, you idiot!
🙂
Mathematics is such a tooth, nail and urine discipline. Next they will bring out the slide rules, so watch carefully!
Neutering worked wonders for the stray male cat we adopted …
By the way, does anyone recommend (or not) the book “Caveman Logic” by Hank Davis?
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LMAO
I guesss he was really pissed off.
That’s why graffiti was invented.
That’s precisely why no child of mine will be a Professor!
Hey Professor Coyne I thought you were some kind of respectable serious academic professor scientist guy teaching Our Children how to compete, I’m shocked to see all this frivolity and joking and smut on a serious professor’s Web Sight or whatever you call it.
Whaddaya mean? This is obviously serious academic human ethology…
Oh sure, someone writes a paper on vocal expressions of dominance among Cistothorus palustris and it’s scholarly.
As soon as you link to a small case study on non-verbal expression of dominance, it’s smut.
Seems kinda unfair.
Yeah, gettin’ kinda locker-roomie in here…
Ha! Nice try, bub, but Professor Coyne is no more a fan of sexist epithets than I am or than Professor Dawkins is. You may remember how the latter reacted to your little quarrel with me…
Geeze, OB, with those boots?
Repetitive kidney function intersecting a plane surface?
What are the legal and employee peenalties for such a misdemeanor?
If he has tenure, a case of Depends.
If not, he has to teach the jocks and freshmen how to balance their checkbooks.
A response to tenure review? A personal tenure review report?
Well, that just gives a whole new meaning to piss off, doesn’t it?
The Los Angeles Times says Petrov was captured on videotape urinating on the door of another professor’s office on the San Fernando Valley campus. School officials had rigged the camera after discovering puddles of what they thought was urine at the professor’s door.
P + D = LOL
(P + D) x 2 = MEGALOL
All right, who leaked this story?
Attorney to math professor: “Urine in trouble now.”
Smart guy, that professor; he’s what’cha call a wiz kid.
It’s clear that this was fueled by right-wing rhetoric. He’s probably a member of the Tea Party. Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin.
Tea Party? No. Pee Party.
It’s nice that’s he doing such innovative and important things with his Pee-hD.
heh heh
heh heh!
After doing that, he should be relieved of his duties.
From Son of Hempenstein: “I guess he never heard of piss pucking*. (you piss in a tobacco tin, freeze
it, then slide it under the door. Instant mystery puddle)”
*that’s puck, not puke – ed.
That’s so clever and inventive in a disturbed sort of way. How do kids come up with this stuff?!
Delayed action mystery puddle, isn’t it?
One can think of many places such an object could be left. But why a tobacco tin (who has a tobacco tin?) and not something that releases the frozen confection (Piddle-Pop?) easily?
Took me awhile to figure that tobacco can meant snuff tin. And why didn’t anyone think of that when I was an undergrad? No dorm refrgerators.
What’s the big deal? He was obviously just having a wee bit of fun.
Read all these comments first thing in the morning. And I’m laughing out loud before nine o’clock and after onle 1½ cups of coffee.
THANK YOU 😀
At least at Berkeley my professors were housebroken, as far as I know.
Perhaps this was someone unclear on the subject of Wikileaks.
Wizzo!
His lawyer will say to him “urine the pooh now so keep your mouth shut”!
This is MY OFFICE! THAT ONE is urine!
“dark pictures, thrones, the stones that pilgrims kiss,
Poems that take a thousand years to die,
But ape the immortality of this
Red label on a little butterfly.”
-Nabokov
Why “red label”? Because that’s the colour that went on the type specimen for a species when he named it. Exegi monumentum aere perennius, a species name is forever 🙂
Nice, but this is the thread for pee jokes . . .
So it is true:
– Draw a peer-pendicular line to some vertical*, and chances are you will find a math professor near the cross-section.
* As in “colleague’s door”
I guess he was inspired by the “Neolithic Art Critic” from Mel Brooks’ “The History of the World”.
I wondered if he had some apprehension towards taking his course of action: “To pee, or not to pee – that is the question. Whether it is nobler …”
“…to pee, perchance to stream. Aye, there’s the rug.”
Perhaps he was merely demonstrating a solution to the Poincare conjecture, using Ricci flows. If so, perhaps he was able to demonstrate formation of neckpinch singularities.
I really wish they would get off their butts and figure out what causes the piss shivers.
Excellent.
Reminds me of the Procol Harum song:
I’ll blacken your Christmas
And piss on your door
You’ll cry out for mercy
But still there’ll be more
Woah, okay, I can sort of understand in a moment of anger thinking once that it was a good idea to do something so foul… but he was doing it so regularly that the university became suspicious and set up a camera?!? WTF??? That’s just weird…
Oh, and the obligatory dick joke:
I wonder what section of the penile code this falls under?
It’s only a pissdemeanor.
..,.no big shakes.
Funniest thread I’ve read in a long time!
Could have been worse. Consider what some other primates do when they’re mad at you.
I’m glad it said this was at a state university. I had a horrid thought that Zeno might have been the victim, but he’s at a community college.
This denotes the beginning of a new branch of mathematics. There is complex analysis, real analysis, functional analysis…now make way for urinalysis.
mathematical epistemology?
Mistress Pedanté here:
“In a display of male aggression, a California math professor was arrested for scent-marking the office door of a colleague.” The arrest might have been a display of male aggression, but I think you meant “…of a colleague in a display of male aggression.”