Teacher: You can use stethoscopes to listen to water in trees. You should listen to thin trees and trees with less bark.
Student: Should it be hardwood or softwood?
Teacher: Softwood. You can’t beat softwood.
Classroom
Alexandria, Virginia
Archive for the ‘Science’ Category
Your Editors Gave Up on Lost During Season One
60-something guy, earnestly, to table full of seemingly level-headed adults: They’re going to turn the moon into a weapon, the most powerful weapon ever…
Restaurant
Reno, Nevada
Overheard by: mini-me
Like Cats
Student on bike to another: The problem with string theory nowadays is that everyone just wants to get into it.
Cambridge
England
Overheard by: Anti-Math
I Eat It Before Those Orgies with the Football Team
College girl #1: Eating raw fish makes you super fertile.
College girl #2: Really?
College girl #1: Yeah, thats why I get pregnant so much.
Japanese Restaurant
Richmond, Virginia
…Trust Me
Student: The trophoblast looks like a teething ring!
Sex ed teacher: Yes. It looks like a teething ring, but it’s not.
UW Rock County
Janesville, Wisconsin
Overheard by: Akuaku
But First, a Round Of Applause for My Lovely Assistant
Physics professor: First we’ll put it in the A hole and then we’ll put it in the other hole.
Allegheny College
Pennsylvania
If Scientologists Say It, It Must Be True
Hobo woman: So if you stand with one foot on Venus, and one on Mars, it is possible to move earth with a hockey stick.
Eriberto’s
Phoenix, Arizona
Overheard by: Drew
How the Economy Works: Explained
Teen girl #1: Omigawd, I just realized. If we borrowed five dollars from like twenty people, we’d have eighty dollars!
Teen girl #2: Haha, yeah! Wait. (long pause) Yeah, like eighty dollars!
St Louis, Missouri
Overheard by: Had hope for a second, there
Get Off That Muffin for a Sec.
Guy #1, smashing grapes: I’m making wine.
Guy #2: That’s not how you make wine.
Guy #3: Yeah, you need yeast. Hey, Melissa, come here.
Maryland
Sounds Like a Good Rule
Girl to friend: And then this guy, I can’t remember his name, he was like “hey, you want some cake?” But I’ve read his blog and he believes in creationism, so I was like “no, thanks.”
Christchurch
New Zealand
