Currenting

Me:  So what are they supposed to be building in there?
Colleague:  A constant current source, but it’s not constant currenting.

Circuit

Colleague:  Is somebody building a circuit in there?
First Student:  Yeah, [Second Student] is.

Resistor

Me:  I’m thinking about an inappropriate joke about this class and resistor codes.

Op-Amp

First Student:  Is that the same op-amp from last time, when you…?
Second Student:  No, I took that one home.
First Student:  Why?
Second Student:  Because it was so cute.

Spilled

Student:  I spilled candle wax on my laptop, and it hasn’t been completely cleaned out yet.

Smell

Me:  Do I smell dead to you?

Snort

Ten-Year-Old:  Hey Dad!  You didn’t know your bathtub will snort allspice!

Janitorial

Me:  I’m not sure what you want is Dr. Seuss references among your janitorial staff.

Alice O’Connor, nee Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum

Colleague:  She was just a horrible person.  I refuse to call her “Ayn.”

Serious Insult

Me:  “Your Facebook picture looks like Ayn Rand,” is a pretty serious insult.