I could post another American one
The "so you must know the spice girls?" or "I guess in must be winter for you guys right now?" (said in June) ... but that's at least partially the fault of the country itself not just the occupants so .... my favourite

Me, to one of my (non-American) final year undergrad students:

"this equipment only logs on paper, not a PC, and you'll need to measure the area under the curve, so rather than counting squares I suggest you cut out the shape of the curve and weigh the paper"

Her:

"so will i need any special biological equpiment to do this?"

Arrrrrggggghhhhh. Scissors? special biological equipment?

She got a fucking 2:2 as well.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 7 Jan 2005, 10:30, Reply)