a highly academic BURN.

in one of my classes, every thursday, the prof shares some recent research he's done on innovation. one of his slides today basically indicated he "discovered" that teams who have members across multiple time zones exhibit diminished productivity due to coordination issues.

i know. you're on the edge of your seat, it's that thrilling.

anyway, a student raises his hand and pretty much says, "isn't that really obvious?" followed by "do you really need a statistical test to tell you that? because it seems really obvious."

this, as you might imagine, totally puts the prof on the defensive since i think trashtalking his research is akin to slapping his puppy dog after kicking it in the nuts.

so then the prof, after asking a series of unrelenting rhetorical questions and causing a serious (read: overwhelming) awkwardness to befall the classroom, turns to the kid and says:

IT'S SO EASY TO BE AN ARMCHAIR STATISTICIAN.

i didn't have the balls to yell out zzzzzing like the situation totally called for, but the entire classroom just lost it.

it was SO awesome. BURN.