Student Quotes

Since it’s the end of the semester, I’m going to type up a few of the quotes I jotted down in my book during classes. There are a lot where I can’t remember the context, so they don’t make sense to me anymore, but at least these two sketch days do. I also sometimes didn't write anything down or I couldn't write quickly or clearly enough. Hopefully you’ll get an idea of the way my students talk, and some of the unintended humor I get from class discussion and skits.

The first is from the very beginning. I gave them a Calvin & Hobbes comic- if you scroll back enough in the blog, you can see the comic.

• Oh my god, it’s too terrible!
• Tiger, you eat a lot of food, but I’m a good boy.
• What is it in me?!
• I promise it is the best food in the world.
• Are you sure it can be eaten?
• Oh My Lady Gaga! (They used this phrase a lot at the beginning.)
• Have it gone bad? 3 days ago!

The second set of quotes are from Halloween week and were some of the funniest skits in the semester. I gave them a phrase and a Halloween-themed picture, and they had to make a short skit using both. The pictures were: skull, ghost, candy, pumpkin, vampire, witch, mummy, werewolf, bat, zombie, haunted house.

• Hey man, I’m the greatest ghost.
• Oh come on, as a witch I have magic powers.
• It’s a toy bat, and I fix it up.
• No I’m fantastic- and the most beautiful candy in world.
• Humans are so selfish and I want to eat you!
  
• Why are you just having a head?
  
• This plan is a “playing down” me! (play down was one of the phrases)
• Hi everybody, give me all your toys or I’ll turn you into PIIIIG. (She kind of yelled the end of it.)
• I was injected by horrible disease!
• I’m Mr. Pumpkin. I hate this color. (talking about himself being orange.)
• Even for cat, this pumpkin is not big enough! Oh goddamnit.
• I haven’t taken a bath for one year. (I do not remember the context for this one at all.)
• We are skulls now, but want to love. (It was a skull… love story. Very strange.)
• You are the fattest skeleton I’ve ever seen. (How???)
• I’m so bored with you. Get as far away as you can!
• I’m a ghost, don’t you know?