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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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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
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
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
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
Today, in calculus, our substitute teacher told me I was smart. Everybody in the class, including my friends, burst out laughing. FML
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
Today, I joined a conversation about a TV show at work, agreeing enthusiastically. After a few minutes, I realized they were talking about a completely different show with a similar name. I nodded along, trapped, hoping no one asked questions. FML
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
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
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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Top comments
humorizer 14
doh!
Jimboom 12
Mmmmm. Literature..... *drools*
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Comments (134)
stitesy29 18
Yaaay simpsons!!
youknowimright 5
Doesn't that mean your in highschool and your academic proficiency really doesn't matter in the real world yet?
chris_a7x 11
*facepalm*
Taurus_ChicKa 37
DOH!!!!
SaintJimmy21 19
if it was the other way around, you would have seemed stuck-up :)
RockNRollAndrew 18
Well your friends sound like dorks
dogpolice 11
"Just kidding!"
Anikaaaaa 31
I don't get why the English speaking part of the world decided that Ὅμηρος: Homeros should be called Homer. That doesn't make sense. Same for Aristotle, who was called Aristoteles. So that was your opportunity to be a giant nerd and say, oh you plebeians meant Homeros...
the_bassist__ 15
Haha... Simple mistake! But you probably should've been able to figure out who they were talking about.
Konarika 11
But the real Homer's name is pronounced differently because he was Greek... Didn't you hear the difference if you're a literature student?