Professor: Are there any Buddhists in this class? Anyone in here a Buddhist? Huh? All these Asians and no Buddhists?!
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland
Professor: Are there any Buddhists in this class? Anyone in here a Buddhist? Huh? All these Asians and no Buddhists?!
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland
Professor: Well, they had Nazis, but those aren’t exactly lighting fixtures.
Theatre Class, SUNY
Geneseo, New York
Overheard by: Jeni
Professor: Now, if we did eliminate illness and achieved immortality there might be serious religious repercussions. Can anyone think of how this might affect religious beliefs?
Bimbette: Well, like, if Hitler were immortal, he would, like, go to jail for, like, a million years and then, like, chill out for eternity, you know?
Eternal Youth and Immortality Seminar
Lafayette College, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: knows that Hitler would still be dead because he SHOT himself
Professor: At concerts, you move your head in an up-and-down motion in certain parts, also known as “headbanging.” You may also be Satanic. You may or may not, or you might just to piss off your parents.
http://www.overheardatumbc.com
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….
Professor to another: I saw you walk in with your purse, messenger bag, and backpack. You've been having sex again?
USC School of Social Work
California
Accounting professor: You should drink champagne and go swimming — it’s lots of fun. Once you’re tipsy and get three to four feet underwater you have no idea which way’s up.
http://overheardatkmc.blogspot.com/2006/11/what-accountant-does-for-fun.html
Animated professor: And without the socialist revolution, to paraphrase Jar Jar Binks, “People gonna die!”
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Substitute teacher, as bird clock chimes on the hour: Is that a real bird, or is that just my drinking problem?
Class: [Silence.]Substitute teacher: … It’s my drinking problem.
Glen A. Wilson High School
Hacienda Heights, California
