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Author Topic: Most entertaining student sentences, Fall 2009  (Read 93233 times)
airball
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« Reply #30 on: September 14, 2009, 02:49:04 PM »

I can fix that:

"Coach comes into the locker room and circles everyone up and the team prays in unison, sounding like a finely tuned marine albacore."

Because you can tune a piano...
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« Reply #31 on: September 14, 2009, 04:58:15 PM »

So I guess it looks something like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPpNNpzldbg
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« Reply #32 on: September 14, 2009, 06:39:01 PM »

I can fix that:

"Coach comes into the locker room and circles everyone up and the team prays in unison, sounding like a finely tuned marine albacore."


I was thinking more like:

"Coach comes into the locker room and circles everyone up and the team prays in unison, sounding like a finely tuned manticore."
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« Reply #33 on: September 14, 2009, 10:33:14 PM »

"I feel that there are certain qualities in the actions that are being recreated in which it allows certain circumstances to reoccur again."
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« Reply #34 on: September 14, 2009, 11:22:23 PM »

This one is not terrible.  As a matter of fact, it is kind of cute in a way.  And it's from an otherwise fine short essay.  It just makes me giggle a bit, because it was written in all seriousness.

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Overall, women had an impact all over.
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« Reply #35 on: September 15, 2009, 07:51:47 AM »

From a colleague's astronomy test:

"When you think of all the ways our sun is like a star, it's certainly something to look at and admire."
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« Reply #36 on: September 15, 2009, 08:30:07 AM »

This one is not terrible.  As a matter of fact, it is kind of cute in a way.  And it's from an otherwise fine short essay.  It just makes me giggle a bit, because it was written in all seriousness.

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Overall, women had an impact all over.

It's somewhere between a palindrome and a haiku.
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« Reply #37 on: September 15, 2009, 04:59:18 PM »

Assignment: Outline the argument made in the book "Opening the Floodgates"

Johnson's argument with respect to migration is an open border policy, in particular to Mexico and Central/South America, it is symbolical to "Opening The Flood Gate", because water will always get through, just like migrants will always attempt to cross.
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« Reply #38 on: September 15, 2009, 05:10:37 PM »

Hispanics are not adopting English as their main language and are purposely using their Hispanic language dominantly

I will not tell this student that Rosetta Stone's latest release is Hispanese, this will displease hu.
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« Reply #39 on: September 16, 2009, 08:36:22 PM »

1. The Confederates did not have the kind of power to overcome the Federalists in 1961.


2. Tiny compared to the closets in the new addition of the house, it is obvious these were designed in a year where a multitude of clothes was only common in the wealthy rather than the extreme amount of clothes we can now buy for cheap from Chinese factories where small children work for pennies a day.

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« Reply #40 on: September 17, 2009, 03:01:10 PM »

I think I'm going to run a contest on this one.  First poster to guess the subject described in the student's sentence gets a virtual version of one of my justly famous carrot cakes:

"He seems calm and easy going, yet a little bit conceded, all contributing to the suaveness of the picture as a whole work of art."
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« Reply #41 on: September 17, 2009, 04:11:26 PM »

I think I'm going to run a contest on this one.  First poster to guess the subject described in the student's sentence gets a virtual version of one of my justly famous carrot cakes:

"He seems calm and easy going, yet a little bit conceded, all contributing to the suaveness of the picture as a whole work of art."

Dorian Gray? (He did concede things now and again.)
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« Reply #42 on: September 17, 2009, 04:12:53 PM »

This lovely gem came in the first set of papers:

"Beowulf, like many christians and other kinds of boys-males, has a desire to fight with Captain Hook, proving his manhood with a sharp impediment instead of intellectual darings.  This may sound obvious to you the professor but to other readers it is an important change of course in their minds questing."
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« Reply #43 on: September 17, 2009, 04:26:14 PM »

This lovely gem came in the first set of papers:

"Beowulf, like many christians and other kinds of boys-males, has a desire to fight with Captain Hook, proving his manhood with a sharp impediment instead of intellectual darings.  This may sound obvious to you the professor but to other readers it is an important change of course in their minds questing."

What is this, some kind of literary celebrity deathmatch?  Or am I missing something?
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« Reply #44 on: September 17, 2009, 04:44:33 PM »

This lovely gem came in the first set of papers:

"Beowulf, like many christians and other kinds of boys-males, has a desire to fight with Captain Hook, proving his manhood with a sharp impediment instead of intellectual darings.  This may sound obvious to you the professor but to other readers it is an important change of course in their minds questing."

Surely you made at least part of that one up.

Tell me you did.  Please.
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