Lecture notes = treasure trove of forgotten quotes.

When revising for that horrible, horrible exam of which we shall no longer speak, I found a number of quotes and comments scribbled in the margins of my lecture handouts for sessions given by the great P. Maestroni - a very amusing, laid-back and pleasantly-accented ("Sometimes I sound like... what's his name... the one from the TV who says 'Que?' ") lecturer of the microbiology persuasion.

With that explained, please read on... blue = Il Maestro himself (sadly, paraphrased in places), black = my comments on his lectures. :)

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"So my son had asthma... and you know that can come from not coming into contact with enough microbes and such naturally. So I took him to stables and had him work with the horses, in the muck and the dirt... his mum wasn't very happy about that."
[pause]
"[mutinous] But then she's never happy anyway."

"10:18am: current distribution of lecture:
- at least 95% on tangents
- about 5% on lecture material.
we heart Piero"

"10:35am:
on a tangent again.
That was a long time...

10:36am:
tangent over.
oh well."

"My brother-in-law, he's a very highly-ranking urologist. Every time he grabs those bits it's another £200. He earns quite a lot in a morning."