Education

Professor: Here you are, every day, sitting in this little cave which is evolutionary very stupid. You're not reproducing while you are in here. You aren't even trying to… Well, maybe that's not true.

Psychiatric Physiology Class
Pomona, California

Overheard by: Whats He talking about again???

Teacher: So, he gets this chick to marry him and she leaves her princess life in wherever, and now he's dreaming about mud!

Columbia, Missouri

Student, after teacher announced students would take turns to read: Erm, excuse me… Why can't we read quietly for ourselves?
Teacher, with mock shock: Because… We're here together! This is a room full of communion and harmony!

University of Zurich
Switzerland

Overheard by: Stephie

Five-year-old daughter: Daddy, ask me some math questions.
Father: Okay, what is 4 x 4?
Five-year-old daughter: It's not 9!
Father: That's correct.

McDonald's
Manhattan, New York

Overheard by: Michael Moore

Biology teacher: Today we are going to learn to make a wet mount.

Tampa, Florida

Overheard by: the one chortling in the back

Teacher: Who was right in the American Revolution?
(silence)
Student: We were?
Teacher: We were! God, I thought you were all communists for a minute.

Kalamazoo, Michigan

Middle-aged man: So the other day my friend asked me to borrow some porn tapes. He said he needed to teach his son about the birds and the bees.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/overheardinminneapolis/~3/324355344/getting-straight-to-the-point.html

Overheard by: the wirled

Junior girl, watching group of new freshman and shaking her head: I swear they keep getting smaller.

Weber State University
Utah

Professor, pulling blue scarf out of pocket for magic trick: Now that… that is what I like to call… a blue scarf.

Villanova University
Villanova, Pennsylvania

Freshman #1, reading from textbook: Butte. What is a butte exactly?
Freshman #2: A fancy way to say “butt.”
Freshman #1: God, you learn so much at college.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/overheardinminneapolis/~3/353858064/not-enough.html

Overheard by: kbay