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Author Topic: Most entertaining student sentences, Fall 2009  (Read 76833 times)
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« Reply #315 on: November 06, 2009, 05:17:31 PM »

"The weakness of working with gorillas is that they could attack you."

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« Reply #316 on: November 06, 2009, 10:17:14 PM »

"The weakness of working with gorillas is that they could attack you."



Not to mention the way they'll treat your Samsonite.
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« Reply #317 on: November 06, 2009, 10:23:16 PM »

"The weakness of working with gorillas is that they could attack you."


Not to mention the way they'll treat your Samsonite.

I should think the weakness of working with gorillas is that long before they have a chance to kill you, you will be dead from the long climb into the rainforest to try to find them.  Or the poachers killing gorillas will get you first.
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« Reply #318 on: November 07, 2009, 08:48:34 AM »

Nah, that's just mountain gorillas.  Lowland gorillas are a lot easier to find.  And gorillas in general are more likely to just charge you and scare the hell out of you than kill you, various horror movies notwithstanding.
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« Reply #319 on: November 07, 2009, 11:30:59 AM »

Nah, that's just mountain gorillas.  Lowland gorillas are a lot easier to find.  And gorillas in general are more likely to just charge you and scare the hell out of you than kill you, various horror movies notwithstanding.

The gorillas like to watch horror movies?
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« Reply #320 on: November 07, 2009, 12:12:07 PM »

Nah, that's just mountain gorillas.  Lowland gorillas are a lot easier to find.  And gorillas in general are more likely to just charge you and scare the hell out of you than kill you, various horror movies notwithstanding.

The gorillas like to watch horror movies?

Beats heck out of playing with your own poo.  Or so I'm told.
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« Reply #321 on: November 07, 2009, 12:26:02 PM »

Nah, that's just mountain gorillas.  Lowland gorillas are a lot easier to find.  And gorillas in general are more likely to just charge you and scare the hell out of you than kill you, various horror movies notwithstanding.

The gorillas like to watch horror movies?

Beats heck out of playing with your own poo.  Or so I'm told.

Is this something one needs to be told?
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« Reply #322 on: November 07, 2009, 12:38:24 PM »

Nah, that's just mountain gorillas.  Lowland gorillas are a lot easier to find.  And gorillas in general are more likely to just charge you and scare the hell out of you than kill you, various horror movies notwithstanding.

The gorillas like to watch horror movies?

Beats heck out of playing with your own poo.  Or so I'm told.

The mad pooper at Anthroid's school might disagree.
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« Reply #323 on: November 07, 2009, 02:44:49 PM »

The author uses the poetic ego to express that he is fed up with the behavior of modern man, destined to live in a capitalist world without transcendence, which does nothing but affect him.

Dear cruel world: Please stop affecting me once in awhile. I need a break.
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« Reply #324 on: November 07, 2009, 03:48:25 PM »

Regarding a poem which begins with the line "Tonight I can write the most sorrowful lines."

The reader is able to capture the negative attitude of the narrator due to his use of the word "can."

That whole "Yes we can!" campaign...obviously negative.
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« Reply #325 on: November 07, 2009, 06:12:35 PM »

Nah, that's just mountain gorillas.  Lowland gorillas are a lot easier to find.  And gorillas in general are more likely to just charge you and scare the hell out of you than kill you, various horror movies notwithstanding.

The gorillas like to watch horror movies?

Why not?  They like porn.  Wait until about 1:20 or so in the video.
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« Reply #326 on: November 07, 2009, 10:45:32 PM »

Nah, that's just mountain gorillas.  Lowland gorillas are a lot easier to find.  And gorillas in general are more likely to just charge you and scare the hell out of you than kill you, various horror movies notwithstanding.

The gorillas like to watch horror movies?

Why not?  They like porn.  Wait until about 1:20 or so in the video.

The male gorilla is French?  Aren't also the females?  After all, their legs and armpits aren't shaved.
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« Reply #327 on: November 08, 2009, 12:05:51 AM »

On Thursday, "I need to start narrowing down my topic."  Student thens suggest sweepingly vague topic remarkably similar to sample paper handed out.  Paper is due next Monday.

On a Friday, different student, "What paper is it again that is due on Monday?"

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« Reply #328 on: November 08, 2009, 12:21:26 AM »

My bad, wrong thread plus typos.  It's like the universe wants me to focus exclusively on job applications or something. 
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« Reply #329 on: November 08, 2009, 11:34:28 AM »

He is not sure if he wants to chase after his lost love, but there is a nonconsentual force between the brain and the heart to search for her.
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