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Katrina
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Posted Thu Jan 28th, 2010 7:53am Post subject: Hilarious Little Things
Okay, since I regularly use the Lovely Little Things thread to post things that I find hilarious, I decided humorous occurrences deserved their own topic. To begin:
One of my sisters and I asked one of my... less academically gifted sisters a series of historical questions.
Number one: When was the Civil War? Her answer: 1812.
Number two: What are the first ten amendments called? Her answer: The Preamble
Then we each took the citizenship test. My history major sister and I got 95%. She got a solid 60%.
The frightening thing? This individual will be teaching elementary students in two years.
"Whatever, the books will tell me all that stuff!" and "I don't even know who Patrick Henry is," do not inspire confidence. 
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Laur1991
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Posted Fri Jan 29th, 2010 6:09am Post subject: Hilarious Little Things
Oh jeez I didn't know the answers to those questions either.  I did a fake American citizenship test and I got 35%.
...Does that make me hilarious?! 
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Katrina
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Posted Fri Jan 29th, 2010 7:14am Post subject: Hilarious Little Things
No, that just makes you normal because you haven't been listening to George Washington stories for like 15 consecutive years. Really, this girl had no idea how many Supreme Court justices there were. I think she guessed 10, but WHY WOULD YOU GUESS AN EVEN NUMBER???
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Hope
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Posted Sun Jan 31st, 2010 6:01pm Post subject: Hilarious Little Things
Was watching an old episode of Grand Designs last night and the couple on it had finished their house but not their garden. They were standing outside on the decking with Kevin McCloud and suddenly there was a shot of a single strip of grass in the middle of the expanse of mud and Kevin said "I see you've laid some turf". My god, I seriously couldn't stop laughing. I started and the more I thought about it, the funnier it got. I was seriously crying by the end. Not sure why it amused me so much but it really, REALLY did.
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speckledband
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Posted Sun Jan 31st, 2010 6:10pm Post subject: Hilarious Little Things
Last year me and my friend were out walking and it started to rain there were some ducks in a pond,my friend said to me seriously, no trace of humor or irony 'I bet ducks don't like this weather much' i couldn't stop myself from cracking up all the way back home
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Katrina
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Posted Mon Feb 1st, 2010 6:32am Post subject: Hilarious Little Things
My mom once walked into a library and said, "Wow, there's a lot of books here!" These comments are pretty much constant. 
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michael
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Posted Mon Feb 1st, 2010 4:41pm Post subject: Hilarious Little Things
Boiler12 said:
No, that just makes you normal because you haven't been listening to George Washington stories for like 15 consecutive years. Really, this girl had no idea how many Supreme Court justices there were. I think she guessed 10, but WHY WOULD YOU GUESS AN EVEN NUMBER???
oh god... as if our govt didn't suck already... that would be a nightmare!!
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TobiasMonk
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Posted Mon Feb 1st, 2010 5:55pm Post subject: Hilarious Little Things
Boiler12 said:
Okay, since I regularly use the Lovely Little Things thread to post things that I find hilarious, I decided humorous occurrences deserved their own topic. To begin:
One of my sisters and I asked one of my... less academically gifted sisters a series of historical questions.
Number one: When was the Civil War? Her answer: 1812.
Number two: What are the first ten amendments called? Her answer: The Preamble
Then we each took the citizenship test. My history major sister and I got 95%. She got a solid 60%.
The frightening thing? This individual will be teaching elementary students in two years.
"Whatever, the books will tell me all that stuff!" and "I don't even know who Patrick Henry is," do not inspire confidence.
I know this is supposed to be hilarious, and the above really only says she just didn't do very well at history, but am I the only one surprised that this person got into a University? Please tell me she's a brilliant mathematician or linguist, or something, humor me please.
I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
Walt Whitman
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michael
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Posted Mon Feb 1st, 2010 8:08pm Post subject: Hilarious Little Things
a friend recently told me about a time where a student meant to write that something was "mediocre" and instead wrote "media okra"...
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TobiasMonk
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Posted Tue Feb 2nd, 2010 2:29am Post subject: Hilarious Little Things
Okrahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the plains...
I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
Walt Whitman
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Katrina
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Posted Tue Feb 2nd, 2010 7:40am Post subject: Hilarious Little Things
I know this is supposed to be hilarious, and the above really only says she just didn't do very well at history, but am I the only one surprised that this person got into a University? Please tell me she's a brilliant mathematician or linguist, or something, humor me please.
Well, she's an elementary ed major, so she just has to know more than the average six-year-old. Not to say that el ed majors are stupid (it takes a VERY special person to teach little kids), but it's not the most difficult major. She's just... borderline mentally challenged. And she's an enormous whore, not that that has anything to do with her stupidity, but she is. I love her as a sister, but she's the ultimate example that not everyone has to, or should, go to college. She must've gotten through the SAT's okay (although it's the easiest test ever written), but it's not like research universities really care about teaching, anyway. As long as they get the tuition money, you can fail all you want!
Let's just say that since we've moved up in the Greek world, she definitely wouldn't have gotten a bid if she had rushed this year...
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marzgirl
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Posted Thu Feb 4th, 2010 8:11pm Post subject: Hilarious Little Things
My husband is in the Air Force. Before we got married there was an air show going on near by and he said "wow, those are funny looking clouds". I said "no, Mr. Air Force rocket scientist, those would be contrails."
I will never let him live that down. 
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
~Martin Luther King Jr.~
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michael
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Posted Mon Feb 8th, 2010 10:36pm Post subject: Hilarious Little Things
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2010/02/08/politics/p.....ontentBody
sarah palin had to write "lift americans' spirits" on her hand, 'cause y'know, she might forget that.
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TobiasMonk
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Posted Mon Feb 8th, 2010 11:15pm Post subject: Hilarious Little Things
What she needs to write on that hand is nuclear, not nucular, and maybe a map, so she knows where Europe is....and Pennsylvania.
I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
Walt Whitman
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michael
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Posted Mon Feb 8th, 2010 11:18pm Post subject: Hilarious Little Things
honey, there is no hand big enough for what sarah palin needs to know...
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