 Mark Erickson watching a slide show produced in his honor |
 Dean Eppler '74 shaking hands with Mark Erickson after sharing some good stories |
Some quotes from the slide show
- “He’s got the mouth of a sailor. Never find a nicer guy, but he’s
got the mouth of a sailor.” – said of Dr. J. Mark Erickson
- “If you proofread your papers and catch the little shit, it helps to camouflage the big shit.” -Mark Erickson
- QUESTION: “Dr. E, what does taphonomy mean?” ANSWER: “It means you’re not getting into Yale.”
- “One of my favorite memories of JME was that on a field trip
(name one, there were many when this occurred) upon finding a prize
fossil and handing it to him to identify, he would examine it and say
something on the order of “hmm…it appears to be an inarticulate
Orbiculoidea. Thanks!” and with that he would *pop* it into his shirt
pocket, presumably to be added to the SLU fossil collection.
I lost many a fossil to this ploy, as did other unsuspecting students, but I am glad that they were donated to a worthy cause. The lesson learned was that one must know their fossil taxonomy or take the time to identify it from the literature, lest the prize be lost to the sage. It worked for me!” -Dave (Street) Streetsmith ‘86
- “Exams are one little fly in the ointment of life.” – Mark Erickson
- “Word control, people. Self expression is going to be mediated.”
-JME
- “Come to work and face a class of homicidal maniacs.”
- “I remember when a burger used to cost $.25 at McDonalds. I’d
come out with a free lunch and a dollar I found on the floor in change.
It was like manna from heaven.” –Mark Erickson
- JME on asexual reproduction:
“Make a clone army someday, if the Jedi are low on manpower.”
- “Trilobites are much sexier.” -Mark Erickson
- In the field, one heats lunch up by leaving it on the dash for a
few hours…and eats lots of hardboiled eggs.
- Referring to the incomplete digestive system:
“It’s sort of like constipation, I suspect” -JME
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