If you were a superhero/villain, what would your catchphrase be?

I take attendance by having students answer a question.

If you were a superhero/villain, what would your catchphrase be?

Halfhearted heroism:

• I tried :P
• I feel like I need to say something but I don't really know (<-- about="" an="" anticlimax...="" li="" talk="">
• You stop that!
• Save me.
• Life is so complicated. (<-- a="" and="" arriving="" at="" chaos="" himself="" i="" imagine="" just="" li="" madness.="" of="" ongoing="" scene="" superman="" surveying="" the="" to="" tutting="" wreckage="">
• "And have a good day!"
• No.
• Ugh, I guess I'll help you if I have to.
• "I'm not that kind of superhero; please stop asking me to fly."
• eh, maybe tomorrow

Mathy (and I'm not sure what the accompanying costume or scenario is):

• min flow
• P = NP
• "If a vertex cover is polynomial time reducible to..."
• I am a CS major

Onomatopoeia:

• Give me the meatloaf, pow!
• beep boop
• meep
• swagsauce swagu
• Bananana
• pow
• Gotcha!

Entertaining:

• "CATCHPHRASE!!"
• Student X wrote: "ITS helpdesk, this is X how can I help you"
• "I'mma let you finish... but Beyoncé had one of the best music videos of all time!"

The winner was a repeat-offender-for-sarcasm, whose catchphrase, "a pun so infuriating it distracts my enemies," leaves a lot to the imagination while still conveying the right smug tone for a catchphrase. And not really committing to heroism or villainy. (Although some might argue that the entire punnish approach puts it squarely in "villainy".)

This post's theme word is desuetude, "a state of disuse." He heaved himself out of the recliner and said, in a voice cracking from desuetude, "If humanity needs me again, I can come out of retirement and be Superman. Again." then sighed melodramatically.

Find my car: the photo series

It's still weird and novel to me to have a car, specifically associated with me, for my own personal transport needs. I find it especially striking that the car is like an indicator, an anchor of my physical location; to a first-order approximation, it says, "Lila is nearby."

"... and easily findable."

I find myself taking these photos to document the bizarre idea that keeps repeating in my mind: "I know what that is, that's my car. That's my car. That's my car."


This post's theme word is chatoyant (adj), "having a changeable luster like that of a cat's eye at night", or (n), "a chatoyant gemstone, such as a cat's eye." My car is not chatoyant, but it is nevertheless easily distinguished from other vehicles and the surrounding environment.