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Collegehumor.com is running a contest where people send in stupid questions asked during their classes. Here's 5 submissions:

Quote:A) University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
Submitted by Curtis

Professor: Semester grades will be posted online sometime tomorrow afternoon.
Prom Queen: So like...11-ish?

B) Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Submitted by Kyle

In anatomy class...

Professor:I am double jointed in my elbows so I can lock my hands, step over them, and pull them up to behind my head but I can't get them over my head because I am not double jointed in my shoulders.
Mr. 4.0: So how do you get them back up front?
Professor: *sigh*

C) Lakeland Community College, Kirtland, OH
Submitted by Clark

Intro to Logic class discussing philosophers

Professor: "Now, who can tell me who John Locke is."
Turbo-Nerd: "The bald guy on Lost!"
*Silence*

D) University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
Submitted by Jodee

While in basic math class second week of classes.

Professor: (Writing fractions on the board) Now fractions are used all the time and can be very useful.
The Brilliance: What are the lines in between the numbers?
Professor: *Stares*

E) Penn State Lehigh Campus, Fooglesville, PA
Submitted by Jess

In Astronomy class...

Professor: We're in college now, kids. What's another word for tilt? It starts with an I?
Back-Row Bill: Axis?
Class: *Laughter*

A buddy of mine used to be a park ranger at Gettysburg. One day he was leading a tour group around the battlefields and pointing out the various monuments and their significance. During his running commentary, he pauses to ask for questions.

Ready?


How did they fight such a hellacious battle without tearin' up all these statues?

As a college professor, I have seen my fair share of these -- questions in class, writings in papers, and in e-mails.


My all-time favorite was from a student whom I always wondered how she qualified for admission in the first place. After she had missed several consecutive classes, without contacting me, I e-mailed her to let her know the midterm was coming up. I received this reply (all spelling, etc. from the original):

"I'm sorry i didnt get back in tuch with you about my absince. I've been sick with something. I'm sorry for your incontinence. When I can meat with you."

That's not made up. That's real. She failed the class. She failed several others that semester and was dismissed from the university. Then, her mother came to campus wanting to know why everyone hated her daughter. The apple didn't fall too far from the tree, in that case.

Grammar-Nazi Wrote:. When I can meat with you."

Sounds like a threat to me. lmfao

A guy I work with is a die hard uat fan and I was joking with him about how UAB has better traditions and is up and coming etc... So I also brought up how even auburn had better traditions than uat and told him about how the eagle flies over the stadium before the game and he stopped me mid sentence and asked,
"Have they been using the same eagle all these years for all those games?"
I love bammers

Grammar-Nazi Wrote:"I'm sorry i didnt get back in tuch with you about my absince. I've been sick with something. I'm sorry for your incontinence. When I can meat with you."

At least she was considerate of your bladder problems.

Here's your sign. lmfao

TMcCarty Wrote:Collegehumor.com is running a contest where people send in stupid questions asked during their classes. Here's 5 submissions:

Quote:C) Lakeland Community College, Kirtland, OH
Submitted by Clark

Intro to Logic class discussing philosophers

Professor: "Now, who can tell me who John Locke is."
Turbo-Nerd: "The bald guy on Lost!"
*Silence*

This one shouldn't even count...it's blatantly made up, or something along the lines of a joke a college instructor would tell.

This technically doesn't count as stupidity, but my Calculus II class was taught by a guy for whom English was his 4th language (Nkashama if anyone remembers him). The first day of class he is going through the syllabus, and explains to the class that "this quarter there will be three testes."

But the biggest laugh I ever heard in a classroom was in my final MBA class. One of the groups had a project on a hair salon in Houston where the owner had been certified as a "Master Braider"...we were able to avoid laughter the first 3 times it was said, but when the professor asked what you have to do to achieve the certification of "Master Braider" we finally lost it...

Crazy... Stupid people should wear signs.

My Quantitative Methods (statistics) professor was also not a first language english speaker. He asked the question one night in class... If I flip a coin, what is the probability that I get head. If I flip the coin many times, all night long, what is the probability of my getting head.

I did not think much about it but my friend was laughing out loud in the class (as was about half of the class). Then I realized what he said.

This thread got me thinking about an e-mail I received a while back from a friend of mine who teaches journalism at Doane College. He gives a
"People in the News" quiz the first day of classes each semester, just to see how intelligent his students are. This year, he collected the answers and sent them out to his colleagues. Here are the results of his quiz.

[quote]1. Barack Obama

Quote:religious nun from the Roman Catholic church

Department of Redundancy Department?