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Is This Any More Stu­pid Than the Po­lit­i­cal In­ter­pre­ta­tion? Dis­cuss.

Teenage girl #1, ex­plain­ing Shake­speare to friend: So, ba­si­cal­ly, Romeo is, like, a man whore. As soon as he knows some chick won’t have sex with him he gets all pis­sy and emo and goes af­ter some­one else.
Teenage girl #2: So, like, he just wants to make ba­bies? Man, I al­ways thought it was more ro­man­tic!
Teenage girl #1: Nope. He just wants to hop in­to bed with who­ev­er’s avail­able.

Birm­ing­ham, Al­aba­ma

So It’s Not a Chain,Then?

Stu­dent #1: … And this con­cludes my pre­sen­ta­tion on Su­dan. Are there any ques­tions?
Stu­dent #2: Su­dan… Is that where that Ho­tel Rwan­da thing hap­pened?
Pro­fes­sor: No, that would be Rwan­da.

In­ter­na­tion­al Mar­ket­ing class, Uni­ver­si­ty of Ne­bras­ka-Lin­coln
Lin­coln, Ne­bras­ka

Over­heard by: Mea­gan

Be­sides, Was­n’t Har­man­fa­dites a King Of Per­sia?

Male stu­dent: We were learn­ing about har­man­fa­dites in my psych class to­day.
Fe­male stu­dent: What’s that?
Male stu­dent It’s when a per­son is born with boy and girl parts.
Fe­male stu­dent: Nasty.
Male stu­dent: Yeah. I was won­der­ing, if two of them have sex, are they both gay? Or les­bians?
Fe­male stu­dent: I can’t talk about this while I am eat­ing.

Wayne State Uni­ver­si­ty
De­troit, Michi­gan

Over­heard by: Jon­son