Mrs Weir

Quotes

"Pretty colours"

"That's right"

"Can anyone tell me?"

Whilst showing off experiments

"So, you can see that lovely blue colour" (when it's clearly colourless still)

"Right the Ammonia should be turning this a pretty colour pink (holding test tube to class)

20 seconds later--

Ahh, maybe it wasn't Ammonia I put in... Normally I can smell it by now (puts test tube to nose)

cough cough WHEEZE.... Well I think we've established it WAS Ammonia..."

(Whilst doing the Sulphuric experiments in Y12) "Normally it gives off a smell of rotten eggs... but I can't smell anything.... I seem to remember it's one of those where if you can't smell it it's starting to poison you...." (puts beaker to nose)

"Wooooo *cough* that certainly does *cough* smell of rotten eggs doesn't it... we 'll just put that in the fume cupboard..."

Alcohols

[Standing at front of class with equipment for experiments] "Alcohols" (PAUSE)

Member of Class - "Annnnd"

Mrs Weir - "BURNING them."

The Idea Is...

Mrs Weir is particularly noted for her insistence of uttering the eternal words "The idea is" at every opportune and inopportunte moment, and holds a record of 14 in 40 minutes. When correcting students' work, the phrase mutates into "This is the idea".

This has given birth to the ever classic 'The Idea is...' game. The rules are simple: whenever Mrs Weir utters the words "the idea is", you hit the person nearest to you. Caution must be used while playing this game, especially if you enter into the leagues with the elite players, who are now able to hit the nearest living thing when the phrase is mentioned without even thinking. The game can become quite violent, with players getting carried away in the moment, and emerging from their chemistry lessons covered in bruises and scars. You have been warned!

Tests

(During a test) " A minute or two more - to make some more answers up"