"More of your conversation would infect my brain." -William Shakespeare in Coriolanus Act II, scene i

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Take that.

Girl: Yeah, he got really mad when I hit him in the teeth with a quarter.
Guy: Ouch...that's like George Washington coming up and biting you in the face.

-Future Problem Solving

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

That's a thinker...

Girl 1: [Girl 2], I have a very VERY important question to ask you.
Girl 2: Go ahead.
Girl 1: Okay...Can a woolly worm wear a turtleneck?!

-Honors English III

Saturday, January 26, 2008

"Ugh!"

Girl: Ugh! My whole world is crashing down around me! At least my whole world is superficial. Wait...I don't even know what I meant by that.

-Chem I

Thursday, January 24, 2008

And the ocean? I'm just not that much of a fan.

Girl 1: What are you going to do when you're older?
Girl 2: Well, I want to be a marine biologist . . . . but whales really freak me out.

-Precalculus

Sunday, January 20, 2008

Chess Masters

[Girl and Guy are playing chess, and Girl has just made a comment on her poor playing ability]
Guy: Why do you always have to be so self defecating!?
Girl: Um...Don't you mean self deprecating?

-Contributed by Ada

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Saturday, January 19, 2008

Yeah, stop it.

Girl: So she woke up and her eyes were watering and she was drooling all over the place and I was like, "Stop acting like a homeless person or people are going to think you have rabies!"
- Downtown Arts Center

Friday, January 18, 2008

Speak its mind.

[In the chemistry lab, the room smells horribly.]
Girl (pointing at an air freshener plugged into an outlet): This thing needs to speak up!

- Chem I

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Yep.

[In Chemistry, we are doing a lab. There are lots of students bustling about, and I need some hydrochloric acid.]
Me: Excuse me....I need some acid.
Girl: Oho...don't we all.

-Chem I

Sunday, January 13, 2008

A College Contribution

Girl: [looks at her biscuits] Oh, I think these biscuits are mis-marked.
Guy: [looks] No, that's correct.
Girl: $14.95 for a package this small?!
Guy: I see we have another member of the price club!
Girl: Hey, there's no need for that attitude. Back home I can get these for $4.00!
Guy: Well, I do have to fly these over.
Girl: What did you do? Buy them a seat on American Express?!

- College [Contributed by a Loyal Reader]

Friday, January 11, 2008

Thanks for warning us.

[Inside the Drivers' Ed car, just before a turn at the middle school.]
Teacher (to driver): Now tell the folks behind you what you're going to do.
Driver (turning to face those in the back seat): I'm going to the middle school!
-Drivers' Ed

Wednesday, January 09, 2008

We're with you on that.

Teacher: Are you confused because of the binomials?
Student: I'm confused because it's math.

-Precalculus

Tuesday, January 08, 2008

I concur.

"So...this stranger walked up to me the other day...and they told me I needed to shower!!"

-Cafeteria


Please excuse the lack of posting...there is a writers' strike, you know. :)

Tuesday, January 01, 2008

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