SHANFIELD: Rating professors with red-hot chili peppers
Miriam Liddle  |  by media.www.dailyfreepress.com. All rights reserved. 12.10 | 11:46

Let's just put it out there: If you're hot, you know it. You can have all the eating disorders and worries about the size of your biceps you want, but those people who are hot, deep down, they know. There will be days when hot people get Fs on tests, dumped or fired, and the first thing they'll think is, "I'm not hideous.

" They won't tell anyone, but it will make them feel a tiny bit better. But I think there are people out there who know they aren't hot and worry that everyone else knows it too. Professor Bob Zelnick is one of them.

Imagine -- a successful journalist who was portrayed by Oliver Platt in a Broadway play doesn't think he's hot? Maybe the Oliver Platt thing gave it away. Regardless, Zelnick, along with many other professors at Boston University, is worried about his hotness not because he's looked in the mirror lately, but because he does not have a shriveled little chili pepper next to his name on RateMyProfessors.

com. I have my issues with RateMyProfessors.com.

There are three ways to rate a professor's likability: with a blue face, green face or yellow face. The yellow goes to the professor who has daisies sprouting from his footsteps and a small parade of dewy-eyed forest animals following in his path. The green face, boasting an uninterested horizontal line for a mouth, indicates that the professor provokes no emotion and, in your boredom, you just become nauseous.

The blue is only given to those professors whose presence fill classrooms with sadness and hate. When you see this professor you know that somewhere, a small dog has just died. To me, this coloring system is not politically correct.

Since when is the world racist with emoticons? Not all green people have horizontal mouths and not all blue people are sad. Why is blue the international symbol for depression?

Blue is the color of our sky, our oceans and Hypnotiq. With the exception of that disgusting drink, when things are blue it's usually a good sign. The final irrelevant way to judge a professor's teaching skills is the chili.

A chili means this professor is physically appealing. Chilies are tiny, shriveled Mexican fruits that taste like burning leaves, and I am not attracted to them. I don't think chilies are even from the earth; Tums probably invented them so they could get more business.

If my professor really was hot enough to deserve a symbol that labeled him so, I'd much prefer to give an image of Brad Pitt. It doesn't matter if the professor is male or female. I'd give it to all sexes because the more I get to look at Brad Pitt, the more credibility I give the website's ratings.

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Keywords: Brad Pitt, Oliver Platt
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