History

(outside the university library)
Guy #1: So you scored.
Guy #2: And I know the holocaust inside and out.

Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canadia

Woman: How old is that bible?
Clerk (picking it up): 1911.
Woman: Thats the first one?
Clerk: First what?
Woman: First bible.
Clerk: (astonished silence)

Resale Shop
Hammond, Indiana

Gucci girl to friends: God! I’m so tired of my Nazi book group! (silence) I mean, they don’t want cookies, they don’t want to socialize, it’s just like, book book book you may not mention anything besides the book!

Glencoe, Illinois

Overheard by: I was worried for a minute

Student: I’m as much like Hitler as Hitler was.

Ball State University
Muncie, Indiana

Overheard by: Kat

Girl: I thought dinosaurs were a fairy tale.

Junior High Science Class
El Paso, Texas

Teen girl to classmates: Jesus was not a President!

US History Class, High School
San Diego, California

Guy: You know, I’m usually anti-slavery… Except when I drink, then I’m all for it.

Bar
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Professor: So the wars of opium wars were fought because the Chinese didn’t want their citizens smoking their bongos and being loopy.
Student: Wait, bongos?
Professor: Yeah those pipe things… Bongos, right?

Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan

Overheard by: Erika

Boy holding a box of revolutionary war army men: Mom, who won this war?
Mom: Y’know, I’m not sure.

Craft Store
Wisconsin

Professor: And the French, they?re only worth 2/3 of a person because, well, they?re on our side, but they don?t fight well.

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