No, Frozen!

This phrase stems from a planetary astrophysics course in the mid '80's, attended by Gorno, Kevin Conod and Kevin Sterner.

As his final project was being presented to the class, one of the students asserted that the chunks that made up the rings of Saturn were composed of ice. Prof. Caldwell asked, reasonably, "Water ice?"--as opposed to dry ice, or methane ice, or any other type of ice that exists in the solar system. The student immediately replied, "No, frozen."

It took a couple of seconds before anyone realized what the devil the student meant. He thought he was being asked whether the material was in a liquid form, completely missing the possibility that it might be some other substance than H20. The titters began slowly, increased to furtive laughter, and continued for the rest of the class. Prof. Caldwell started to correct the student, but gave it up as a lost cause, raising his eyes (presumably towards the galactic black hole, for guidance) and shaking his head in exasperation.

The phrase "No, frozen!" became a snide rejoinder among Forumites to anyone who completely missed the thrust of whatever another person was saying.