Students Write the Darnedest Things

1.         Whenever my friend has the chance, she likes to see the latest movie.  She just wants to relax, watch the movie, and eat snakes.

2.         While some dieters are just overweight, others are a little old beast.

3.         These kinds of neighbors are easily spotted because you never see them.

4.         Some people have semi-erotic pets such as skunks or those huge Brazilian parrots.

5.         Going to college helps one develop a lot of self a steam.

6.         I told him not to, but my boyfriend gave me a peck on the check.  I never really expedited him to do that.

7.         I heard it through the great vine.

8.         Driving down town was awful; the traffic was bupper to bupper.

9.         The altitude in Colorado can get very high, and that is why the sun is hotter there than it is in Houston.

10.       When I was working at that restaurant, I was serving and busting six full tables at the same time.

11.       Have you ever thought about how the common bald point pen works?

12.       Pollution in Hong Kong is caused by the exhausted gases of automobiles.

13.       Before the assignations of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy, gun control was not important.

14.       The Mark IV was not what it was crapped up to be.

15.       There are a number of obvious symptoms of  cocaine use.  The psychological symptoms are characterized by intense anxiety,              depression, confusion, and hallucinations, especially fornication (the conviction that ants are crawling under one’s skin).

16.       When a child comes home from school, he will more than likely throw himself down on the coach in front of the T V for the next
             couple of hours.

17.       The most popular T V shows today are crime shows, comedies, and soap boppers.

18.       The law does not consider someone alive at the time of contraception.

19.       The English language is being ruined by old tire phrases.

20.       She was a spare of the moment and spontaneous woman.

21.       A main example of student writing is the s. a.

22.       An unusual clam descended on Mexico City.

23.       Love is a double edge sore.

24.       In his essay “Death and Justice,” Mayor Koch explains the emotionless feelings of the murderers.

25.       The newest computer mouse is really great.  It’s like taking a nice troll on a deserted beach with absolutely no hindrance.

26.       I apologize for not being in class today; I had to take my mother to the doctor.  Yesterday she ran over her leg with our station wagon.

27.      Stopping illegal immigration will put an end to a viscous cycle that is unjust and dangerous to the illegal aliens themselves.

28.       In this cartoon, Spiderman appears as a mirror mortal.

29.       The term laissez faire means loose rain.

30        The author says that English should be the official language of the United States: this false statement can be proven.

31.       When I graduated from high school, I had a feeling of triump.

32.       I always thought abortion was immortal.

33.      Cowboys wear big hats and boots and are all bold-legged.

34.      Conversation overheard at the student center coffee bar:

            First Student:  “Don’t use Nutra Sweet.’

            Second Student: “Why not?”

            First Student:  “Nutra Sweet causes impudence.”

            Second Student:  “How do you know?”

            First Student:  “I read.”

35.      "He was a crack-attic."

36.     My older brother is my ideal. He sits in the mist of his piers.

37.     One member of the group is a tenor, but the lead singer is a bear a tone.

Literary Boners

1.         Willa Cather graduated valid Victorian from her high school.

2          Ralph Ellison received honorary doctrines from several universities.

3.        Eteocles died an honorary man fighting for his country.

4.         Rome became a great military power, but the Romans first had to fight a series of punitive wars.

5.         Theme is the jest of the story.

6.         Phaedra follows the conventions of Greek tragedy by using a noble character, by keeping all violence off stage, and by using an             ethnic messenger.

7.         Roderick Usher died in an unusual manor.

8.         A common theme in poetry is cease the day.

9.         For Browning, it was paramount that an individual strive to develop moral, spiritual, and facial life.

10.       Browning’s Duke was morally insufficient.

11.       In this poem, Blake has bobbled the reader’s mind.

12.       The affair between Emma and Rodolph lasts until Rodolph explores her to the limit, becomes tired, and finally abandons her.

13.       The Byronic hero has a travesty in his past that still afflicts him.

14.       In this novel, the author’s theme is the deciduous and transiency of the real world.

15.       For example the term “elfin grog,”  in “La Belle Dam Sans Merci,” is used to explain a place that a couple would go to possibly have              sex.

16.       Hedda Gabler felt trapped.  She looked at her future as a grudgery.

17.       A flat character has been sterile typed while a round character has been scalped.

18.       In “The Lottery,” even though many traditions have gone to the waste side, one has not.

19.       June 27^th has been known as the longest day of the year.  In order to conduct a lottery involving a slow death such as stoning, a long             day would give plenty of time for the goal to be accomplished.

20.       Don Juan is the name of a poem which reflected a very nonsensick and sinnicle outlook of the romantic period.

21.       The lamp and fountain are two forms used quite often in the romantic period because at night that is how one had to write, with
             the use of a lamp and fountain.

22.       Negative capability refers to the ability of a romantic poet to be negative.

23.      Weltschmerz is a major neoclassic writer who first used quotes.

24.      Weltschmerz occurred during creative moments.  It was used to describe the inability of the artist to notice his environment.

25.      Weltschmerz is the ability to become disgusted with everything.

26.       A Shakespearian sonnet has 14 lines of iambic container.

27.       The word “omniscient” means giving God he-man like qualities.

28.       Adultery was the wife of a high class of man and a squire.

29.       “Was this the face that launched a thousand ships?”—What Queen Elizabeth said to Columbus.

30.       World War I—a very serious dispute.

31.      Dowry—a down payment on a marriage.

32.      An ode is a poem on death or some other grave subject.

33.     Faulkner's " A Rose for Emily": The townspeople knew Emily and Homer were getting married because Emily had bought a silver            toilet seat with the letters H.B. on it.   

34.    "The Most Dangerous Game" : The story will leave you insipience[in suspense].

35.     Frost's poem is written in bland verse.

36.     Frost farmed, taught, and wrote journals for poultry.