History

History professor, during lecture: After all, people have always had dirty…nasty…raunchy sex.

Syracuse University, New York

Overheard by: del

Professor, talking about Meatless Tuesdays during WWI: And what would not eating meat save?
Genius (excitedly): Bullets!
Professor: Um, no.
Genius: By not having to shoot the animals.

History Class, Christopher Newport University
Newport News, Virginia

Overheard by: be CNU

American tourist: Why did they put the castle so close to the airport?

Outside Windsor Castle
Windsor
England

Random freshman: And then this junior girl came up to me and was like, “look at this penis on my locker…his name is Napoleon.”

Lakeland Regional High School
Wanaque, New Jersey

Overheard by: kristina

College student #1: Look, look, it's Martin Luther King!
College student #2: …that's Eddie Murphy.

Madame Tussaud's
Las Vegas, Nevada

(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