Teacher: If you wish to have a discussion, raise your hand and I will call on you if you are worthy enough.
Student: I love you?
140 Brandies Road
Newton, Massachusetts
Teacher: If you wish to have a discussion, raise your hand and I will call on you if you are worthy enough.
Student: I love you?
140 Brandies Road
Newton, Massachusetts
Spanish teacher, in Spanish: Margarita, what are you doing today?
Margarita: [Mutters something in Spanish.]Student: Did you just say, ‘I’m planning to attend the party where it is raining babies’?
Margarita: Baby shower. I’m going to a baby shower!
Community college
Tucson, Arizona
Overheard by: oh my
Girl, about overhead projection image: Any way you can make that bigger?
Whole class: That's what she said!
University
Toronto
Canadia
Overheard by: like, for real?
Little boy looking at stuffed animal: Look, Mommy, it’s the monkey that comes out of your butt!
Mother: Yes, it’s the monkey that flies out of your ass. That’s why we’re not going back to Chuck E. Cheese’s.
Learning Express
Exton, Pennsylvania
Girl student to friend: If we can't operate an elevator here, how are we going to operate an elevator in another country?
Loyola University
Maryland
Overheard by: Nikki C.
Teacher: All right, then, so what are some of the languages that influenced the English language?
Student #1: Canadian!
Student #2: You’re dumb. This is Brit Lit… so obviously, British influenced the English language.
4771 Campus Drive
Irvine, California
Bimbette: Yeah, my dad bought me this really great promise ring for my birthday.
Teacher: Isn’t it a little too late?
High school
San Diego, California
Professor: A modern example of the peasant revolt of 1381 are the anti-poll tax riots that took place under Margaret Thatcher. She refused to work with the public, and it brought down her government. We should take a lesson from this… I hope there are no microphones in here.
Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, New York
Overheard by: Hopes There Aren’t
Trainer: You like the weather out here?
New girl: Yeah, it’s really dry… And, um, weird for directions and stuff, you know? Like, does the sun set in the west out here, too?
Trainer: Uh, yeah.
Phoenix, Arizona
Male grad student to female TA: Oh, hey! Congratulations on not fracturing your skull!
Geology Department
University of Iowa
Overheard by: Another Grad
