speaking of stupidity,
i was just reading some of that down there about exams

a friend of mine's sister was at college and was taked with writing about 'the significance of 'courtly love' in romeo & juliet'
she wrote a whole essay about courtney love instead
( manolith hooray for me, Wed 20 May 2009, 13:05, archived)

No
No
This is not true.
( WormuIus, Wed 20 May 2009, 13:06, archived)

i read the first few paragraphs
she isn't clever enough to fake a whole document just for yuks
( manolith hooray for me, Wed 20 May 2009, 13:08, archived)

stop
please stop

The stupidity hurts my brain.
( WormuIus, Wed 20 May 2009, 13:10, archived)

she'd tried REALLY HARD to find any connection
lots of hole lyrics quoted and clumsy parallels were drawn

i asked for a copy but didn't get one
( manolith hooray for me, Wed 20 May 2009, 13:18, archived)

reminds me a bit of a story my music teacher told the class,
about someone who wrote in an essay on the life of [some famous classical composer] that he lived in a pub. Because it had said in the textbook that at one point he moved to a "larger house".
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 20 May 2009, 13:21, archived)

pfft

( manolith hooray for me, Wed 20 May 2009, 13:22, archived)

this made i roffle
well, not so much a roll on the floor as a slight wobble on my beanbag, but wobl isn't such a widely-accepted term
( spacefish bong!, Wed 20 May 2009, 13:20, archived)

i like that it still essentially says 'wobble'

( manolith hooray for me, Wed 20 May 2009, 13:22, archived)

I couldn't reach my computer sat on a bean bag
do you have long arms?
( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Wed 20 May 2009, 13:31, archived)

i'm a veritable mr tickle

( spacefish bong!, Wed 20 May 2009, 13:34, archived)