Professor: I invent things too! My great invention is this toast, and you make it in a toaster, and then you stick it in the freezer. And, like, when you want toast, you just put it back in the toaster…
Students: (confused silence)
Professor: Man, no one understands me! (stomps out)
SUNY
Geneseo, New York
Overheard by: Jeni
Student: Is ‘too’ an adverb?
English professor: Why do you care?
http://overheardatcornell.blogspot.com/2006/12/big-honking-update.html
Overheard by: maria
Science professor: This is plastic deformation, like what happens to those baby-seal catchers. You know, the plastic that comes around soda cans? Sometimes you catch penguins too, but those are much harder–they run really fast, and they have no regard for their bodies. They just throw themselves off cliffs.
Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts
Pol-sci professor: Nuking other countries is kind of rude.
University of Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee
Professor, showing slide: And here we have another example of a seal or stamp, with a procession of men along the bottom. However, they could be aliens. (pause) Anyways…
Art History Class
University of Alabama
Overheard by: Bennett
Kid: I am the Antichrist.
Teacher: Your parents must be proud.
Kid: No! They’re pissed!
Brimmer and May School
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Psychology professor: Sex is best. Money is second best. Domestic violence is pretty cool.
Los Angeles, California
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
Professor: This clip is from a documentary about women’s professional wrestling in Japan, which is pretty much the–
Football jock, interrupting: –Coolest thing ever!
Kaufman Hall, UCLA
Los Angeles, California
Overheard by: Not an athlete
Professor: Well, I'm not supposed to state my own political views. (pause) Ah, to hell with it, I'm just going to say it: Sarah Palin is a complete fucking disaster!
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland
Overheard by: Brittany
