A Tribute to Al Cavallaro

...the man who goes to the beach to solve math problems.

Cav Quotes

  • Ah jeez...
  • Golly-gee willikers...
  • Wouldn't it be nice...
  • Let's do it..to it!
  • Good ol' Galwah...
  • OK guys and gals...
  • I'll tell ya what...
  • Ya' late!
  • I've gotta tell ya...
  • Let's go!
  • Observe.
  • It's a KILLA.
  • Yundastand?
  • Are you mocking me?
  • Have a good one, everybody.
  • We gotta get going on this, everybody.
  • I'm gonna turn on the systems, OK?
  • Hamburger
  • Do you really need to know this in the real world? NO! There's only 5 words that you need to get through life. Would you like fries with that?
  • The deeeeeeeNOMinator...
  • Just because you can have lasagna in Florida doesn't mean you can't have it here.
  • Pretend, everybody, I'm getting really angry now.
  • You can kill a fly with a bazooka, but man, is it messy.
  • Hey...I can go home on the New Jersey Turnpike, but it'll take a heckofa lot longer.
  • Lemme tell ya something: nerds are the greatest people on earth.
  • Wouldn't it be nice...
  • Let's do it to it!
  • Good 'ol Galwah...
  • Ok guys and gals...
  • I'll tell ya what...
  • I've gotta tell ya...
  • Observe.
  • When you're sitting in Yankee stadium, next to 70,000 other people. You'll be the only one who knows how to take a derivative.
  • Feel free to shut up
  • I hate to say shut up
  • Feel free to get up and walk around
  • Have a good one, everybody.
  • We gotta get going on this, everybody.
  • I'm gonna turn on the systems, OK?
  • The deeeeeeeeNOMinator...
  • Can you? Sure you can, but I don't want to hit my head against the wall either!
  • Just because you can have lasagne in Florida doesn't mean you can have it here.
  • You can kill a fly with a bazooka, but man, is it messy.
  • Hey... I can go home on the New Jersey Turnpike, but it'll take a heckofa lot longer.
  • You don't have your colored pencils...?
  • It's difficult to see the universe when we're in an apple.
  • We're lost in the forest -- and there IS no forest.
  • Hush, puppies!
  • Mike Epstein: This is indoctrination!
    Cav: Yes. You're an apostle of the obvious.
  • I wish I could [curse at you], but I'm professional.
  • Oh, my gracious goodness....
  • Put your heads together -- gently -- to figure this out.
  • pretend i'm getting mad, everyone.
  • let's go!
  • give it a go!
  • don't draw mickey mouse pictures
  • oh sheesh
  • today we're gonna switch gears everybody.
  • we're switching gears now
  • using your 140 iqs...
  • bingo!
  • that would be a great math fair project
  • golly gee whillikers (sp?)
  • using your feel for numbers...
  • stay with me...
  • all right, everybody
  • |====|-----| this is calculus.....
  • oh, ya didn't do the homework
  • yahlate!
  • you're becoming a mathemagician
  • we're gonna have a THING next week, folks.
  • wouldn't it be nice to have colored pencils, everybody
  • thhhheeeee limit as h approaches 0
  • i don't mean to snow anybody
  • oh! you're not gonna do the work!
  • give me the bottom line answer
  • open your notebooks to a nice clean page
  • before we get hung up, i want you to do this for homework, everybody
  • next year, when you're in a calculus environment...
  • we're phasing out of this topic
  • there's a four-second pause. what do you do?
  • when the dust settles, what's the answer?
  • oh, ya don't know.
  • what do dat mean?
  • this is pain!
  • this is a rigged problem
  • f-eypoo
  • be bold! pull it out
  • there's a wrinkle
  • when the dong dings
  • oh, another assassination attempt
  • what a coin-cki-dink
  • spring is our enemy, everyone.
  • pretend i'm not talking, everybody
  • i like to blast through it and then go back and check.
  • T-formation
  • next year, when you're at yale or harvard or penn state or the state penn...
  • Have a Tic-Tac. They're vitamin-enriched.
  • Open to the cleanest page in your notebook.
  • Student: Do you have to show that part?
    Cav: (long pause) No. You don't have to. But if I'm eating a mocha-chip ice-cream cone, I WANNA SEE IT!
  • Folks, I'm gonna plant a seed.
 

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