Years ago for PE we were doing athletics, and a teacher was giving us these drawn out boring instructions on how to pass the baton in a relay race … when she was done, she asked “any questions or comments” and I let rip with the loudest fart you ever did hear.
HS English teacher correcting a student’s grammar: “If you don’t know the difference between a lie and a lay by now, you’d better learn before you get to college!”
To be fair there’s a number of other battles fought which would given the crown to someone else at some point. Hastings is just the most obvious answer.
This happened to me, only it was describing projectiles in my physics class. Rather than drawing a wide arc, he made a rather “peculiar” parabola on the board, starting with one ball at the bottom, a path up to the top with another ball, then the path back down with the final ball. No-one realised until that last ball and he just looked at it for a second. Then he drew the “grass” where the ball would land.
I’ll admit it. I’ve drawn a phallic figure on the board while teaching a college basic physics lab. Actually, it wasn’t that phallic, but as the possessor of the ultimate filthy mind, I said, “Oh my,” which prompted the students nearest me to realize what I had done and begin to snicker. I decided that I should get rid of the offensive drawing as quickly as possible. Since there was no eraser handy, I used my hand, and a quick up and down motion, to try and rub out the figure. Hysterics ensued for several minutes.
Our 10th Grade history teacher was a bit weird. Most of the time he was a no-nonsense character, but sometimes he would lose it and display the most bizarre sense of humour ever.
So one time we all had to get our report cards ‘commented’ by him. My friend Jeff Schneider, a good student, handed his in. He got it back the next day. It said in huge letter: