All groups have these: stock phrases that inspire derision, sometimes so much that they’re basically reduced to jokes whipped out whenever a bit of sarcasm is necessary.
People interested in queer history: “But that’s just how men TALKED in those days!”
Translators: “Type this in French, would you?”
After the discussion of any completely random event, someone turning to the actuary in the group and asking “what are the odds on that?”
Videogame developers: “Wow, you get to play games all day? That must be fun!”
Every field I’ve worked in: “The customer is king”. Guaranteed to get a laugh.
In the graphic arts field we have a good many including:
“Oh, just make it fit.”
“Huh, I could do that at home with Publisher.”
“I wish I could draw.”
“I have a Polaroid, will that do?”
"That’s great! Could I see it in (blue, red, yellow, burgundy) and maybe all over to the (left, right, centered)?
"I want that type like they used in (Austin Powers, Matrix, TeleTubbies, name your own obscure film).
“I want something real classy and rich but with a lot of yellow.”
When filming a commercial: “We’ll fix it in post.”
As a secretary being asked to do yet another mind boggling, useless, time intensive bit of nonsensical crap that serves only to make some middle manager look like they know how to use Excel - “Oh it’ll only take a minute”. (Can you tell I’m having a bad day?)
Post-grad students: ‘So, do you wanna, like, teach or somethin’?’ or ‘What are you going to do with that degree?’
Classics students in particular: ‘Classics? What is that, like, Shakespeare*?’
----> insert equally inappropriate ‘classic’ item
Meanwhile back in the technical writing department:
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[li]Don’t worry about the technical stuff yet, the engineers will fill that out when they edit.[/li][li]We don’t have any specs yet, just talk to marketing/engineering to get started. [/li][li]Our overseas contractor will write the docs, you will just need to localize them. That’ll only take a half-day, right?[/li][/ul]
“Ah school, the best days of my life”
“What, there’s a Classics department around here?” snigger, snigger
“Linguistics? Is that, you know, all about French and German and Italian and stuff?”
God yes. I came in here to post something like this, and I just had to second it. The next time I tell someone I’m in Linguistics and they ask me how many languages I know, I will scream. I swear.
I’ll scream with you 
(Are you in university? Which one?)
First-year grad at the University of Chicago. You?
“So, you speak Saudi?” 
When I was in anthropology grad school: “Anthropology? Cool! I love dinosaurs!”
“Oh, he’s just so nervous!” This is always said right after a dog has tried to bite the shit out of you for some infraction like picking up his leash.
“Oh no, honey, you can’t take him back there without me. He’ll just freak out if I’m not there.” Ninety percent of the time, these patients look around as if to say, “Thank god those nutwads are out of my face for a minute,” and sit quietly while the owner gnaws his fingernails down to the knuckle and hyperventilates.
“We tried to trim his nails/clean his ears/give him medications, but he just won’t let us.” Won’t let you? Good lord, who’s in charge here, you or the dog?
And my personal favorite:
“Oh, he bites us all the time.”
This makes sense ONLY to polymer clay artists:
“So… then you paint it?”
“No. It’s not painted at all. The designs you see are made from colored clay arranged in canes (insert complicated-sounding explanation for simple process here).”
“Ahh. So THEN you paint it!”
“No. See, the clay is colored. It’s made into those shapes and then stacked and sliced.”
“Oh. NOW I get it. You paint it after you slice it. How do you get the design on both sides?”
:rolleyes: :smack: :rolleyes: :smack: :rolleyes:
“Statistics? Oh, God, I HATED that in school!”
TypeNow.net has a page of fonts from popular TV shows and movies.
Oh yeah, preach it!
And, if you’re a history grad student, you get one of two diametrically opposed responses:
a) History was my favorite subject in school.
b) I hated history in school. All those dates and stuff. So boring.