How do these people manage to get into Cambridge?
When I was doing my AS Levels, a girl from the year above, Erin, was doing an AS in English with us year twelves. One day, Jack asked her to pass him something, and said that it was to her left.

At this point, Erin made sort of gun hands - index fingers pointing outwards and thumbs pointing upwards - and put her hands in front of her and looked at them intently.

"Erin," said Jack, "what was that?"
"Oh!" replied Erin, "If I do that, then these fingers make an L shape, so I know it's the left hand."

She got an A in the end.

EDIT: I just remembered another one. A couple of weeks ago, we were sitting in the kitchen at uni, and Chris, illustrating how tired he was, put his head onto his glass of water and pretended to go to sleep, to which Jamie commented "Can you hear the sea?"

We chuckled, at which point Siobhan piped up "How come you can hear the sea when you put a shell to your ear?"
It took us far too long to explain that it's not the *actual* sea you hear.
(scoob666 Ain't Nuthin' Ta F' Wit, Mon 10 Jan 2005, 15:17, Reply)