If It's Bobbing for Saviors, Count Me Out.

Sunday school teacher: We're going to play a fun game next! Does anybody want to guess what it is?
Five-year-old student: Take of our shirts and pants?
Sunday school teacher: No!

Sunday School Classroom
Fredericton
Canadia

Overheard by: Andrew

Posted on March 10, 2019
Canadia, Clothes, Default, Games, Kids, Questions, School [Elem., Middle, & High], Students, Teachers

Yay! I've Been Trying to Outdo Myself for Weeks!

Student: How do you spell “wear”? W-e-a-r? (pause) That is the stupidest thing I've ever said.

San Diego, California

Posted on March 9, 2019
California, Education, Questions, Students, Stupidity, Words

Introducing Madame Toussaud's Naughtiest Exhibition Yet

Enthusiastic undergraduate to group of friends: I never knew you could do that with wax!

Oxford
England

Overheard by: Intrigued Grad Student

Posted on March 9, 2019
England, Friends, Hair, Students, Weirdness

Invented by Mister Newton.

Professor: So, I can see that some of you try to care about my feelings, and others don't give a fig.
Student #1: Whoa! Could you not use such harsh vegetables?
(entire class goes silent)
Student #2: I didn't know a “fig” was a vegetable.
Student #3: I thought it was a grape. A dried grape.

Johnson & Wales University
Providence, Rhode Island

Posted on February 25, 2019
Colleges & Universities, Education, Feelings, Food, Rhode Island, Students, Stupidity, Teachers, Words

I'll Just Slip Into Something More Comfortable

Evolution professor: So why can't humans have more then just two sexes? Man, that'd be a lot of fun, wouldn't it?
Class: (uncontrollable laughter)
Evolution professor: Oh, I can see. (pause) I shouldn't have said anything, let's continue…

UC
Santa Cruz, California

Overheard by: I'm glad he said it

Posted on February 24, 2019
California, Colleges & Universities, Education, Gender issues, Questions, Sexuality, Students, Teachers

My Dad Kept Telling People to Kill Me

Student #1: I told my dad I wanted to be famous, and he told me I should kill someone. I was like, seven.
Student #2: At least he's supportive.

Philedelphia University, Pennsylvania

Posted on February 5, 2019
Advice, Colleges & Universities, Family ties, Murder, Parenting, Pennsylvania, Students, Stupidity, Wishes

Whether You Deserve It or Not

New York liberal Jewish humanities teacher: You don't have to be all “ma'am” and stuff around me.
Student: Ma'am, I was raised in the South, you have to expect some non-ironic chivalry, sorry.

Florida State, Tallahassee

Overheard by: Dr Steve Manly