Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Make It Stop

I graded a late paper this evening. It included this mysterious claim:

"Grief motivate Batman is a different sense."

You really can't make this stuff up, people. Unless you're one of my students, in which case it comes as easy as falling off a log.

In the closing paragraph, I found this nugget:

"I believe movies really are magically."

Watoosa's reply was, "Magically delicious?"

That's why I love her.

7 comments:

Jackamo said...

I'll leave a comment when I stop laughing! I shudder to think what the future is going to be like.

Phil K. said...

"Grief motivate[s] Batman [in] a different sense."

Is that what they were trying to say? Not that even THAT is a coherent thought.

I was looking through some old papers from my undergrad days. I came upon my first 5-pager for a Intro to Sociology class, Freshman year. It was atrocious. I was embarrassed that I even turned it in. The punctuation errors alone were grounds for an automatic F (in an English class, likely) but I guess my prof fought through it. I think I got a B on it. I'll try to get some quotes out of it for you.

Ickenham said...

I think that's what she meant. But there's no telling.

Freshman Sociology class, eh? Send it!

Josh said...

Was this student from Japan, by any chance? Because I think I may have witnessed (& photographed & blogged) some of their other work! ;-)

Greg said...

I doubt you remember, but I was in a "one performance only" band that was entitled Magically Delicious. We played the opening fall 1994 semester party at Samford. I remember you being in attendance. I wonder if Watoosa was there as well?

Watoosa said...

Aren't there some other reasons why you love me? I think you should devote several posts to that. OR a whole separate blog. Cataloging my awesomeness might become too burdensome for you, though. Nevermind.

Greg, if there was a party at Samford, I was there. Unless I was at another party that had costumes. I always opt for costumery.

Watoosa said...

Wait, what I meant to say was: "Love motivate Ickenham is a common feel. Me think husband really are smartly."