I Believe in Harvey Dent

edit: picture of our guest lecturer. Not kidding.


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Today in Batman, our "surprise guest lecturer" was a fairly tall guy, presumably one of the former class facilitators, dressed as Batman...and lecturing to us...as Batman. By "dressed as Batman," I don't mean the awesome new military style Batsuit, as seen on Christian Bale in Batman Begins, which if you haven't seen, 1) you have issues, and 2) looks like this:



Instead, we got the Adam West Batman:
Granted, our speaker wore real Kevlar gloves and black military lace boots, but the rest of his outfit was pretty much the same, grey PJs and tight black briefs at no extra cost.

At least the guy wasn't short. He looked to be around 6'2" or so; the boots may have helped. He also didn't speak like Adam West (as much as I love West's speaking style, it simply won't do for the Dark Knight of Gotham). If anything, he sounded closest to Michael Keaton's Batman voice from Batman '89 and Batman Returns...same fake gritty voice, same attempt at intimidation, but not really quite there.

At any rate, he taught us a bunch of martial arts moves that we could use to get ourselves out of trouble, most of which I forgot because of the following very precious moments:

-Batman trying to show us how to get out of handcuffs with a hidden key but failing and spending a good 10 minutes trying to get one of his gloves off instead

-Batman explaining the California Penal Code regarding concealed weapons:
Batman: "Concealed weapons are illegal in the State of California."
Student: "What about guns?"
Batman: "Guns are allowed because it's a constitutional right."
...awkward pause...
Student: "HELL yea."

-Batman throwing people all over the room

-Batman doing a foreflip on himself and slamming into the ground on his back

-Batman revealing his preferred local food establishment: Dollar Curry on Shattuck ("Well being an independently wealthy person, I only go there to...uh...feed the many orphans of Gotham.")

-Batman showing us all the contents of his utility belt, which included four very real, very sharp shurikens and a poncho ("You never know when you're going to need a poncho - always be prepared")

We thought it was just a poorly executed April Fools' Day joke when Batman entered the class. Nope.
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Among the many website pranks today, such as Gmail's new backdating service Custom Time or Google and Virgin's new joint project to put man on Mars (aptly named the Virgle Pioneers), my definite favorite was YouTube's full-blown front page rickrolling. Just can't get enough of that Rick Astley, ya know?