Whenever I'm in class, I scribble down funny quotes in the margin. This may be something that a classmate said, but usually it's something that the teacher/lecturer says unthinkingly, which sounds really funny when you don't have the context. I've been writing these down for a while now, and I thought it might be fun to share some with you. As always they'll be without any names, and I won't spoil the fun by giving you all the contexts, although sometimes some extra info might be useful...
Here we go:
"He has veins in his hair."
I have no idea where this comes from, but it sounds bad...
"If actors were clever, they would be authors."
Definitely from my modern theatre course, and definitely a joke.
"I will ask you what it is about in a minute, but I will throw around some quotations in the meantime."
"He offered their daughter for sacrifice and then the mother was obviously, well, pissed off..."
One of my classmates trying to explain some Greek mythology.
"God was a beta student."
My teacher explaining that God liked to do things in weights and numbers, making him a "beta" (= Dutch terminology for science) student.
"'He was speaking while using vowels' isn't that useful to mention."
Same teacher trying to get some useful feedback from the class.
These are just the ones from this semester (February onward), when I get around to it I may share some older ones, from when all of our English wasn't fully up to scratch yet, with hilarious results.
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