Professor, discussing an 18th century painting: Now, it is important to remember that at this time women did not wear panties. This is a beaver shot par excellence!
San José State University
California
Archive for the ‘History’ Category
Don’t Make Me Do Date Math, Tricia
18-year-old girl to 20-year-old girl: The Declaration of Independence looks really old and faded. How old is it?
National Archives
Washington, DC
You’d Think There’d Be a Train
Canadian girl #1 to tour operator: Where can we do tours of Auschwitz?
Tour operator: Um, well, Auschwitz is in Poland, so…
Canadian girl #2: No, but we mean the one the Germans set up for the war. The German one.
Tour operator: Yes, I understand, but they set it up in Poland.
Canadian girl #1, after pause: Are you sure? We came to Berlin just to see it.
Berlin
Germany
Overheard by: Jit
This Will Be on the Midterm.
American history professor: So this Bacon guy died of the flux. Or as I like to say, he shat himself to death.
University Of Louisiana
Monroe, Louisiana
Overheard by: a bored Am. History student
Unless You Count Facebook Status Updates
Suit #1: So you live in the Watergate.
Suit #2: I do. The famous Watergate complex.
Suit #1: It’s famous?
Suit #2: Yeah–the Nixon scandal and everything.
Suit #1: Oh–I don’t really follow current events.
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Behind the Wheel, Sure
Girl (reading inspirational quote): “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.” (pause) Helen Keller. (to friend) Wasn’t she, like, a killer?
Indigo Bookstore
Toronto
Canadia
Overheard by: Sunissa
Later, They’d Vomit Up Quarters
Drunk girl #1: I’m Wells Fargo!
Drunk girl #2: Really? I’m Wells Fargo, too!
(they gleefully skip off together)
Pearl St Mall
Boulder, Colorado
That’s Obviously the Isaiah Washington Memorial
Middle-aged wife: Oh, honey, look! It’s the George Jefferson memorial.
Middle-aged husband: Seriously. You are such an idiot.
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A Dicktatorship?
Professor: So Russia had this really phallus-oriented system of government…
University
Newfoundland
Canadia
Overheard by: Mel
Unlike My Grading Scale
Professor: The guillotine was humane. It was just humane many thousands of times.
Oberlin, Ohio
Overheard by: Secret Spy
