Student: Is ‘too’ an adverb?
English professor: Why do you care?
http://overheardatcornell.blogspot.com/2006/12/big-honking-update.html
Overheard by: maria
Student: Is ‘too’ an adverb?
English professor: Why do you care?
http://overheardatcornell.blogspot.com/2006/12/big-honking-update.html
Overheard by: maria
Student: Is there really a job where you can just throw paper at people and then run away?
Canadia
Freshmen dorm girl: Take it from someone who swallows quite often: it's actually pretty fun!
Washington State University
Pullman, Washington
Kid: I am the Antichrist.
Teacher: Your parents must be proud.
Kid: No! They’re pissed!
Brimmer and May School
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Professor: How old are you?
Visiting high school student: Seventeen.
Professor: And you're not married? Well, you've come to the right place!
Freed-Hardeman University
Henderson, Tennessee
Overheard by: Lisa
Girl #1: So pasta, like, traumatized you?
Girl #2: Yeah, I hate pasta! Pasta ruined my life!
Frary Dining Hall, Pomona College
Claremont, California
Male MBA #1: We should have a contest to see who can bring the hottest date to charity ball.
Male MBA #2: That wouldn’t work, because looks are subjective.
Female MBA: Um… No… Some people are objectively hot. You can be empirically attractive.
http://overheardatkmc.blogspot.com/2006/10/lets-compare-dates.html
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Teacher: Did you hear Germany got a new polar bear?
German exchange student: Shiza!
Guy: What’s wrong with polar bears?
German exchange student: Ugh… You have no idea.
Grady High School
Atlanta, Georgia
Student: This morning I watched Walker, Texas Ranger. They're always going around talking to Native Americans.
Professor: That's good.
Decorah, Iowa
Professor to students: You need go out and have a lot of sex.
Seattle University, Washington