the midterm, and some jokes

29 July 2002 - 3:04 pm

laura and i gave our class their midterm last week. i was hoping that with only 12 students they would all just show up, freeing us from litany of ridiculous excuses that comes with undergrads and tests. but no. one of them managed to miss the test and come in afterwards and say hey i'm sorry i missed the test but my mom is really sick, you know, with that prempro thing. and i'm like, your mom is in menopause, and you're using that as an excuse to miss the test? and you want us to let you make it up? not bloody likely! sheesh.

now, on to the jokes! if you were listening to npr on saturday, you may have heard these:

what did the mother buffalo say to her son as he left for school?
bye son.

why was cinderella bad at baseball?
she ran away from the ball and had a pumpkin for a coach.

what did the zero say to the eight?
nice belt.

why did the fried chicken cross the road?
he saw a fork up ahead.

why was the baby ant so confused?
because all his uncles were ants.

why was the archaeologist so sad?
because his career was in ruins.

okay, that's all, folks! that's wraps it up for today! thank you for coming, and please tip your waitresses. don't hit your head on the way out. thank you, thank you very much.

elvis has left the building.