Professor: I don’t think we’ll have class on Monday — I’d rather you study for the final… Preferably not at a bar… But I realize the temptation may be tremendous.
University of Tulsa
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Professor: I don’t think we’ll have class on Monday — I’d rather you study for the final… Preferably not at a bar… But I realize the temptation may be tremendous.
University of Tulsa
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Girl: So, it’s like this — a slut is a girl who says, ‘Look at my boobies,’ but a whore is a girl who says, ‘Touch my boobies.’
Friends: [Silence.]
Eleanor Roosevelt High School
Corona, California
Overheard by: trying to watch a performance
Grumbling student: … But I’ve tooken so many Englishes before…!
Arlington, Virginia
Overheard by: McStupid
English teacher, on how language features are used in advertisements: So in the end, this advertisement is making all the single women of the world think “hello? I wanna be like the yoghurt!”
English Class
Christchurch
New Zealand
Professor: Sorry, I think I just gave a few of you post-traumatic Chaucer disorder.
Marist College
Poughkeepsie, New York
Overheard by: Russ
Guy: Dude, do you remember when our driver's ed teacher taught us how to do donuts?
Pinkerton Academy
Derry, New Hampshire
Overheard by: kr142616
Native American girl: Yeah, when I was in kindergarten, I was the only Mexican in class. Well, except for Reema. She's Lebanese.
High School
San Diego, California
Girl sitting in front of lecture hall to professor, very matter-of-factly: People don't really use adverbs anymore.
Evans Hall, UC Berkeley
Berkeley, California
Overheard by: the only one left
Loud smoking kid: Man, I gotta help out at vacation bible school next week.
Girl: Why?
Loud smoking kid: I promised Zach I would if I wasn't in jail.
Sewanee, Tennessee
