Overheard: star naming

Astronomy 210, Fall Semester 2010
Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA

(Overheard at the start of the class, as the instructor reads student comments and questions submitted for a weekly online reading assignment.)

Instructor: (Reading student question.) "'If you could name a star, what would you name it?'"

(Beat.)

Instructor: "I wouldn't name it after myself. I would name it after my wife."

Students: "Awww."

Student: "What's your wife's name?"

Instructor: "Mrs. P-dog."