Annoying professor, about optical illusion on slide: What do you all see here?
Student: A moron with tenure.
Carleton University
Ottawa
Canadia
Student: Crack cocaine is the best thing since fried rice!
UC San Diego
San Diego, California
Law student: I can't wait for the future, man… I'm going to specialize in time travel law!
St. Paul, Minnesota
Overheard by: Minneapolitan
Professor: So a nasal quality of voice would be–you all know who Fran Drescher is, right?
Emo kid: She hurts my soul.
Memorial University, St. John's
Newfoundland
Canadia
Overheard by: Mel
Teacher: If I say “I put pants on today,” it's very different than if I say “Perhaps I put pants on today.”
High School
Falls Church, Virginia
Overheard by: amused student….
Seminary student: I always wanted to just write down a series of numbers and letters on the birth certificate, and then later tell my kid they were a robot. It’d be awesome because you’d have the real, original birth certificate to prove it — to prove that they were a robot…
Princeton, New Jersey
http://pomomusings.com/
Guy: The only reason I remember the day I got accepted to Cornell is because it’s the only time I ever walked in on my parents having sex.
http://overheardatcornell.blogspot.com/2007/03/saturnalia.html
Overheard by: doug
Ditzy new student: People don't think I'm smart. But I just don't, like, like big words. I don't use them. I used one of them once at work and no one knew what I was talking about!
University of South Australia
First grade teacher to colleague, in front of first graders: And so I walked into the living room and he was there, naked, standing on the coffee table.
Portland, Maine
Professor, in regards to nationalism in film: Now what makes a film “British”?
Valedictorian: They all speak British?
University of Texas
Austin, Texas
Overheard by: Adam
