Professor: The French lords were so disbelieving. It was like your favorite puppy going ‘Rawr, rawr, rawr!’ and taking a chunk out of your arm — they were just like, ‘Huh? What?’
Burdine Hall, University of Texas
Austin, Texas
Overheard by: she actually growled
Girl: Wait, who’s Hitler?
Guy: Are you serious?
Girl: I don’t watch a lot of tv…
Peabody, Massachusetts
Professor: Adams and Jefferson weren’t the only presidents to die on the Fourth of July. Does anyone know the third?
Student #1: Was it Monroe?
Professor: Yes, Monroe also died on the Fourth of July. Quite interesting, isn’t it?
Student #2: Is that why we celebrate the Fourth of July?
Liberal Ed floor, Columbia College
Chicago, Illinois
Overheard by: Ready to graduate
Student #1, viewing political cartoons of Egypt: There’s a face on that rock!
Student #2: Because it’s the sphynx!
New Hampshire
Film studies professor: Until the 1970s, no one realized that the world was divided into men and women.
Birmingham University
England
Professor, on possible Nazi allusions in animation: Well, it was a German film, and any time you hear German muttering, it’s harsh words and armbands.
Rhode Island School of Design
Rhode Island
Overheard by: Sandro
Light-skinned black woman: I’m just saying, I’d have been in the home and not in the fields.
Taco Mac
Atlanta, Georgia
Hobo #1: No matter how you look at it, a swastika is still a swastika.
Hobo #2: (nods in agreement)
Tucson, Arizona
Overheard by: Adam
Tween to friends: Imagine if Hitler gave everybody hugs!
Baltimore, MD
Tour guide: The vestal virgins would be raped and buried alive if they were no longer virgins. If they let the fire go out, they would just be buried alive.
Tourist: I dunno if that’s any better.
Little old Japanese woman: Hey, at least the first way you get some thrills.
Colosseum
Rome
Italy
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