Overheard before a 100 level history course midterm exam:
Procter: “If you need an extra blue book, please raise your hand.”
Bimbo 1 of 2 (sitting behind me): “Yeah, right!”
Bimbo 2 of 2: “Yeah, everything I know couldn’t fill a blue book!”
I couldn’t contain myself. I think they were confused as to why I was laughing, though.
That’s what I thought. I especially thought it was funny when she had a pregnancy scare just a few weeks later. She probably would have thought she was giving birth to the messiah.:rolleyes:
One day at my old job I walked past my boss (the engineer who needed help to resize a window on his desktop) as he was standing there talking to a group of my co-workers, just in time to hear him say, “You see, down in Mexico, everyone’s a Mexican!” I had to stop and back up and ask him if he had really said that.
A classmate of mine in the 8th grade asked, “Uhh, Mr. Duquette, who won the Civil War again?”
When Fred Barnes was told people thought Fox News’s morning show was biased because it had him and two moderates he said, “Well, we have a conservative and two non-conservatives. That’s pretty balanced.”
[Note, this is what I said in my first post ever, deleted in The Winter of Our Missed Content, glad to have it back on here for all to see.]
Finally, “If it hadn’t been for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college…”
Yesterday on the news, I heard the TV news reporter say “hispanic-speaking people” instead of “Spanish-speaking people”. It’s not the dumbest thing but it made me laugh.
I’ve posted this before, but what the hey. Overheard in Blockbuster’s Video; girl to boyfriend; “This video says it’s in widescreen format, but we don’t have a widescreen tv. Can we watch this?” (cut to shot of Jim and I scampering away so we can have a good long laugh).
My younger sister went through a phase where she was always getting her head stuck in things (okay, looking at that, it seems a little odd already), and her excuse for getting her head caught was that “she didn’t know where it was!” She also thought that one piece of clothing was a clo (clothes - pronounced close, you know?) In her defense, I used to think that magician and musician were the same word, and I couldn’t figure out how people would know which one they were talking about.
A couple of weekends ago, I was in a drive-through at Sneaky Pete’s (a hot-dog stand, for those of you unaware). I hate drive-throughs, because I have a hard time mentally juggling the orders of three or more people. My wife had asked for two Sneaky Petes without onions, and my stepson wanted a plain hotdog. So when I pull up to the window, I say “I’d like two Sneaky Petes without hotdogs, a plain hotdog … wait a minute. Let me start over.” I get the order right this time, and the person on the other end of the speaker says, “Okay, I’ve got two Sneaky Petes without hotdogs, and you’ll have to repeat the rest because we were laughing too hard to hear you.”
When I went on a monthlong study abroad trip to Greece this past summer, there were a couple of real gems in our six-person group. The one – a classic blonde with wide blue eyes with a permanent deer-in-the-headlights look to them – we christened “Her Vapidness.” There were a lot of stories to go along with Her Vapidness – like her inviting a random troupe of American students back to her hotel room to party one night – but my absolute favourite happened towards the end of the trip, when we were in Athens. Another of the girls on the trip had heard that an Italian opera was being performed at the Odeion of Herodes Atticus while we were there, and had asked around if anyone wanted to go with her. Her Vapidness initially said that she wanted to. A couple of days later, the following exchange happened:
Girl: “So, H.V., we have to go buy tickets for the opera today.”
H.V.: “yeah, well, you know… I was talking to someone on the Metro? And they said it wasn’t very good.”
Girl: “Oh.”
H.V.: “And besides, it’s in Italian.”
This was said utterly solemnly, as if she had no idea that an opera might actually be presented in a foreign language. By now, I was so sick of her that I just laughed outright when I heard this crap. Totally unreal.