Your supervillain/hero catchphrase

I take attendance by asking the students a question. Today's afternoon session was thematically linked to the morning, though I don't think anyone submitted answers that used that link.

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

Lots of noises:

• woo-hoo
• Oh no
• yo yo
• wee woo
• nothing
• Silence!
• *silence*
• none -- I would keep myself "mysterious"
• ummmm.
• badda bing badda baah
• HaHaHaHaHaHa

And then some, nefarious or virtuous depending on how you read them / how they are delivered:

• gonna hack em all.
• I'll be the God of the New World
• "seize the means of production"
• Here goes
• "the end"
• Aight I'm a head out
• Run it through valgrind
• Never fear, is here!
• Please don't fight back
• Gotta Catchem All
• Not on my watch
• Listen to my full monologue!
• I'm sleepy :(
• lol good luck guys
• Too much sauce
• Big O!

I definitely can see a sinister cackle following "Listen to my full monologue!"

This post's theme word is skail (verb intr.): "to scatter out, spill, or disperse." The assembled crowds skailed before the doomsday machine.

If you were a superhero, what power would you have?

I take attendance by asking students a question.

If you were a superhero, what power would you have? (previously)

Traditional:

• invisibility
• fly (x3)
• mind control
• telekinesis
• teleportation (x4)
• time travel (x2)
• painless and instant shapeshifting
• technically you can shapeshift into a version of yourself with every power ever, so is that cheating?
• all possible powers

Extremely traditional award goes to "water to wine". Less traditional but reasonably-scoped version of "time travel" is just "actual ability to use time management", which might be my favorite low-stakes superpower.

• power to defeat all LeetCode hard questions
• A in this class :)
• The Gardener - plant communication
• cloning
• to always have exactly as much money as I need
• food generation
• eating w/o negative effects fooood
• to teach PA drivers how not to be completely incompetent
• no sleep
• be good at math
• super cool breath

The Professor's Side-Eye award goes to "using hash maps in class" because we just talked about this and no, you absolutely may not.

This post's theme word is yentz (v tr), "to cheat." Shapeshifting to a "form" that has different powers seems like a wish-for-more-wishes sort of yentz.