Evidence prof, about hearsay exceptions: When Lebron James makes a three at the end of a game, is it a statement? He’s not actually saying anything. Actually, often when I go to games there is a woman with Downs Syndrome who sits behind me. She’s a lovely woman… She thinks the players are talking to her.
http://overheardinlawschool.blogspot.com/2007/03/whatd-you-say-shaq.html
Poli-Sci professor putting a picture of a panda bear on overhead projector: Well, normally we’d talk about the syllabus right now, but our department’s so cheap they couldn’t print a syllabus for each of you, so I’ll show you a picture of a panda instead.
http://www.overheardinathens.com/search?query=panda
Non-native presenting for speech class: Everyone has cows in their life. Cows at home. Cows at work. Cows in our families. Cows can take over everything. But how do we get rid of the cows?
Teacher: Chaos. It’s pronounced ‘chaos.’
Truman College
Chicago, Illinois
English teacher, on The Sun Also Rises: In one sense this book is a love story between a nymphomaniac and a man without a penis… [Pause] Discuss.
Acton, Massachusetts
International Trade professor: This may seem counter-intuitive, but why would any country agree to something that would make it worse off? Just like my first marriage, it happens.
http://overheardinlawschool.blogspot.com/
Professor: It’s debatable whether or not LSD was actually dangerous. I mostly remember the ’60s.
East Carolina University
Greenville, North Carolina
Visiting Chinese professor: We like Clinton for his love stories.
University of Tulsa
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Professor: Your paper is doing some heavy petting, but it’s not going all the way!
http://www.overheardatmcgill.com/archives/2007/04/03/but-if-youd-like-your-paper-to-round-third-come-by-my-place-for-some-extra-credit/
Teacher: What were people in the ’50s basically concerned with?
Stoner kid: … Scoring?
Lincoln-Way High School
Illinois
Overheard by: Sally
Gender professor: I don’t know how you’d know by just looking at men if they’re the chivalrous kind or the rapey kind.
http://overheardinlawschool.blogspot.com/2007/04/not-rapey-kind.html
