Teachers

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.

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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.

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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

Professor: Fluorine is to chlorine as chlorine is to Kool-Aid. If you inhale chlorine, it burns your nose–you inhale fluorine and it'll eat your face and look for your family.

San Diego State University
San Diego, California

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