My high school physics teacher was from India. The first week of class, she summoned someone to the board and told him to "devil up dis tea room". We were totally mystified. She started to get angry because he was just standing there, then she asked the rest of us to help him and we didn't know what to do either. Eventually, we learned how to develop this theorem.

My favorite saying of hers though is "If you do not have french curves, vee vill pro wide you with french curves. Vee vant to make your life more come fort able." Not only for the way she said it, but the idea that we might suddenly be endowed with sexy curves.

Then there were the old Home Depot commercials where the musical rhythm of the jingle converted it to "Low prices are just thuh buh guh ning."