Biology teacher: Parvo disease is a disease in mammals that can be fatal; squirrels, cats and dogs can all get it.
Kid, whispering quietly to himself: Ruff! Ruff ruff! Kaboom!
Florida
Teacher: See, adjectives are boring old turtles.
Students: Uhhh.
Teacher: But participles are like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!
Marshall High School
Virginia
Overheard by: amused student….
Student #1: … And this concludes my presentation on Sudan. Are there any questions?
Student #2: Sudan… Is that where that Hotel Rwanda thing happened?
Professor: No, that would be Rwanda.
International Marketing class, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska
Overheard by: Meagan
Freshman, walking out of library: Geez, these books are heavy! They should make, like, lighter versions of books…
Melbourne University
Melbourne
Australia
Overheard by: Eavesdropper…
Male student: We were learning about harmanfadites in my psych class today.
Female student: What's that?
Male student It's when a person is born with boy and girl parts.
Female student: Nasty.
Male student: Yeah. I was wondering, if two of them have sex, are they both gay? Or lesbians?
Female student: I can't talk about this while I am eating.
Wayne State University
Detroit, Michigan
Overheard by: Jonson
Hipster girl: Ugh, I had, like, the worst day yesterday. I was skipping on the quad, and I ripped my skinny jeans.
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, New York
White teacher: Time to yell grades! These are the good ones: Smith, Jameson, De-Jesus…
Asian kid, whispering to friend: Isn’t it supposed to be Degesis?
White kid, to teacher: Did you just say ‘De-Jesus‘?
White teacher: I’m white.
Columbia, New York
Overheard by: Father Seraph
Male student: I feel that this case may have been influenced by the fact that…well, people just hate Michael Bolton.
Seton Hall Law School
South Orange, New Jersey
Overheard by: he's got a point
MBA #1 whispering: Every time [the professor] says, ‘investment of comparable risk,’ don’t you feel like he is saying, ‘rodents of unusual size’? Like in The Princess Bride?
MBA #2: You don’t like Accounting, do you?
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