Friday, July 16, 2010

Drinking before an exam is not always the best strategy

A student describing the Articles of Confederation:

"It was far from full proof."

It feels really special, but it's kind of smelly

A student answering whether or not we worship our government:

"We put them up on a pedistool."

Monday, May 17, 2010

Causing laughter because of absurdity; provoking or deserving derision; ridiculous; laughable....

When a student mistakenly substitutes Ludacris for ludicrous....

Thursday, April 29, 2010

A new wing of the hospital

Appearing in a student's essay:

"Does this automatically mean that Joe Taxpayer really needs to foot the bill for a child that for all intensive purposes shouldn’t even be in our country?"

Seen on Facebook

"She has great stage presents!"

At least not from this web page...

"...there is no end in site to this problem."

What is a dogberry?

A malapropism (also called a Dogberryism or acyrologia) is the substitution of a word for a word with a similar sound, in which the resulting phrase makes no sense but often creates a comic effect.