A Sick Rose? Quick, Where's the Doctor!

[kitsjay]

My Brit Lit class contains one blemish, deemed by me as Awkward Sexual Comment Making Guy. He might have a name, but that would acknowledge him as a human being, which isn't something I'm willing to do.

Now, normally he says something incredibly inappropriate that stops the class. My teacher, with that keen accuracy most teachers are born with, avoids eliciting any opinion from this guy in class, for which we are all thankful. Today, he came up with this gem, which while neither sexual nor really awkward, was so incredibly stupid that I feel it should be preserved somewhere so that others may learn from it. Every time I see the gears slowly turning behind his eyes, I want to cut in and say, "No. Just don't. You're about to speak, and whenever you do that, my soul hurts. So just stop."

We're reading Blake and talking about the French Revolution, its effects on Britain, how this showed up in poetry and literature, et cetera.

He opened his mouth and this proceeded from that dark abyss: "Was this after the Magna Carta was signed?"

For those not paying attention in history class (or, y'know, life), a brief recap.

Magna Carta, 1215. William Blake, 1792.

I am almost certain if I started a petition to allow this guy to get an "A" in the class if he promises never to show up again, everyone, including my professor, will sign it.

Also, yes, my subject line does combine two of my geekiest interests combined, what of it?

Comments

[neme-goddess.livejournal.com]

What school do you go to, because I want to be in on all of this funny stuff you get to be a part of. My classes are dull. I mean, they don't even have extraordinarly dumb people in them to make them LJ noteworthy (except that one ditsy girl who doesn't read any of the handouts and is constantly lost, but she's more infuriating than anything else).

[kitsjay.livejournal.com]

Oh, UT. We have guys on unicycles, trash cans that look like R2-D2, No Pants Day diehards. The usual. ;)

[handhold.livejournal.com]

I want to laugh, but I know from experience that when someone like that is in your class it's not really something to laugh at. Why do these people think that opening their mouth is a good idea?

I love your subject line. :-"

[kitsjay.livejournal.com]

I want to bring a roll of duct tape to class and wave it threateningly whenever he looks like he may say something.

*bows* It was inspired, if I say so myself.

[implication.livejournal.com]

T__T That hurt my brain. *pats* My Brit Lit teacher would have ripped him a new one for that. XD

[kitsjay.livejournal.com]

My teacher gives him this disbelieving look and then moves on very obviously. Subtle, yet funny.

[aquitaineq.livejournal.com]

...heh
Yeah, people like that are why I wonder, "why did I want to teach?" Because even in college.
At Trinity, the stupidest comments were always in my art history classes. My favorite was in my modern art class (20th century), one of the students asked the teacher during orientation, "Will we cover Leonardo Da Vinci."

Modern Art 20th century
Da Vinci, Renaissance!!!!

[kitsjay.livejournal.com]

Wow.

Just...

Wow.

Is it really too much to ask to get within plus or minus a century? To have classmates who could pass the Turing Test? Really?

[rabbid-mouse.livejournal.com]

I feel for you I really do. I can't stop shaking from all the laughing you made me just do. Back in the day they had this contraption that was a sort of mussle that fit over the head and had a metal plate that went over the tounge. Your teacher needs one of those for this guy.

[kitsjay.livejournal.com]

Ah, the good old days...