Miscellaneous: Today, I overheard a conversation two of my friends were having...

By apenglishstudent - 31/03/2009 05:12 - United States

Today, I overheard a conversation two of my friends were having about Homer, so I interjected with a quip about a Simpson's episode I had seen before. They were talking about the poet. I'm an AP literature student. FML

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By Gen - 17/12/2008 09:40 - France

Today, I was telling off one of my friends, a fellow student of medicine, who was spending his evenings watching "House" instead of revising for our important exam, as I was. The topic mentioned in the episode came up in the exam. He got 4 points more than I did. FML

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By Dsark - 19/02/2014 05:12 - United States - San Diego

Today, during a lecture, my teacher jokingly talked about the time he was best buds with George Washington. Another student then asked, "Really? You knew him?" I'm in an advanced placement U.S. history class. FML

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Kids, it doesn't get any better

By Anonymous - 15/03/2020 03:02

Today, I was sitting in class when I overheard a group talking about how much they don't like me. When they saw me there, they burst out laughing. FML

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By ImprovTeacher - 16/06/2019 14:05

Today, I was teaching a small group of improv students. I asked one guy to do a monologue, and laughed to myself while he did so. I said, "Sorry, I'm just laughing at the way you're doing it." He then got upset and pointed out that he had a speech impediment. FML

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By Anonymous - 17/10/2013 13:43 - United States - Romulus

Today, in calculus, our substitute teacher told me I was smart. Everybody in the class, including my friends, burst out laughing. FML

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By Anonymous - 19/01/2016 01:46 - United States - Encino

Today, a friend told me that when I read, I make all the expressions the characters in the book are making. Apparently, I have been doing this since I was a kid, and no one ever told me. FML

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Foot, meet mouth

By Anonymous - 20/01/2016 02:51 - United States - Mission

Today, I was talking to one of my supervisors at my new job. He asked if I knew a professor at the school I recently graduated from, and I decided to babble on about how shitty of a professor he was and how much I loathed his class. He then looked at me and said, "That's my dad." FML

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By WhyIHateTeachers - 25/06/2015 03:49 - United States - Ormond Beach

Today, I submitted a poem for my English class. I had fun writing it, so I wrote a second which was not nearly as good. My procrastinator of a friend never did his, so I gave him my extra poem. Mine was given a 75% while "his" received a 93%. FML

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By Anonymous - 08/11/2015 06:15 - Canada - Gatineau

Today, I overheard my in-laws talking about me. It started off with light insults and ended with, "People like her are the reason murder ain't always wrong". FML

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And then I go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like…

By Anonymous - 23/04/2023 12:00 - Austria - Graz

Today, at my mum’s birthday dinner, my brother-in-law used a Latin phrase in the wrong way. Since we all have learned Latin, I taught him the correct way until everyone facepalmed in my direction. He made a rather nice wordplay and now I’m known as the educated idiot who is too stupid to understand a simple joke. FML

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humorizer 14

Tuesday 31 March 2009 12:31

doh!

Jimboom 11

Tuesday 31 March 2009 12:34

Mmmmm. Literature..... *drools*

Comments

flame1819 0

Saturday 16 January 2010 4:55

Ha! My best friend did something similar when they mentioned Homer in Language Arts Teacher"blahblahblah... like in homer's the Iliad..." Him"Homer who? Simpson?" Teacher"No." Him"Doh!"

khodges2 0

Thursday 28 January 2010 14:14

stupid!

RusselFaraday 0

Friday 5 February 2010 4:05

don't butt into conversations

Mattsta123 5

Thursday 25 February 2010 7:05

so am i

charlesss 0

Friday 5 March 2010 6:16

You deserve it for thinking AP Lit makes you some kind of genius. Don't flatter yourself.

DatingScaresMe 2

Thursday 3 June 2010 20:47

The Greek tragedies are much better than the epics, anyway. It is also nearly I possible to confuse Aeschylus with any pop culture references ;-)

fmlmj 0

Sunday 15 August 2010 9:19

huggghh

angel55033 12

Monday 14 February 2011 9:10

Simpson homer is way more memorable and well known

TergesteCity 12

Sunday 27 May 2012 16:33

I'll never understand why the need to modify foreigners names to your language instead of calling them by their real names: Milano->Milan, Venezia->Venice, Firenze->Florence, or in that caseὍμηρος->Homer etc etc. It would be like if for example in Italy we call New York-> Nuova Iorca, that's sound awful. O_o