Archive for December, 2007

Oh god, you’re right! I was thinking about that other Pope.

Student: I mean, that’s a reason Catholicism is not saying “Gays are going to hell!”
Professor:
Actually, they are. The Pope has said flat-out…

Overheard in a Gender and Women’s Studies class, Sondheim Building
by Kee

Followed by, “Being excessively quoted on Overheard at UMBC”

Professor: My Christmas list includes “drunken coma” at the top…

Overheard in a Philosophy class, Academic IV Building
by Coldbeard

The rugby players seem to get a little miffed about it, judging by his bruises.

Professor: I mean, do you ask heterosexual people if they chose to be heterosexual?
Student: I do all the time.

Overheard in a Gender and Women’s Studies class, Sondheim Building
by Kee

I’m annoyed that I have to breathe the same air as her.

Ditzy Girl: I’m not political at all, like, I could care less about global warming.

Overheard outside of Lecture Hall 1
by David

But only because she saw the “Epiphany!” bubble come up on the pop-up video.

Professor, interrupting: You’re having an epiphany and I don’t think you really know it.
Interrupted Student: Oh, I know it.

Overheard in a Gender and Women’s Studies class, Sondheim Building
by Kee

Not only walking past, but waiting for you to slip up, sir.

Professor: …and if it was only white people who descended from Adam and Eve–You know, these are the moments when I hope there’s not anyone walking past my classroom door.

Overheard in Sondheim
by girl walking past the door

I think there are probably a lot of dudes who want into her gay world.

Girl 1: My love cheated on me with this stupidest girl…
Girl 2: Wait, your girlfriend cheated on you?
Girl 1: Umm, no… my boyfriend.
Girl 2: I’m so gay, even my brain thinks gay-ly. I automatically assumed that your ex was a girl because they cheated on you with a girl. The idea of a man cheating with a woman didn’t even cross my mind. In my gay world, women cheat on women with women.

Overheard in the Commons
by Lisa

The shoving them down our pants was just for fun, though.

Professor: You take some guppies from different populations in Trinidad, put them into little plastic bags, shove them down your pants and smuggle them through the airport back to the lab in California. At least, that’s what we did.

Overheard in a Biology class, Engineering Building
by Eleanor Rigby

I wonder what he was doing before class…

(Besides hanging out with this guy.)

Professor: (Coughs.) Damn… too many herbs in my throat.

Overheard in a Philosophy class, Academic IV Building
by Coldbeard

The engineers say it’s really difficult to make a robot appear to age.

Student: On that note, I think there’s a huge gap between Catholics in power like the Pope and actual real human beings.

Overheard in a Gender and Women’s Studies class, Sondheim Building
by Kee

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