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  • billlyboobs34, on 04/01/2008, -9/+189Joke? You mean Orlando Bloom doesn't get blowjobs from hobbits?
    • jemka, on 04/01/2008, -0/+160No, he does. It just isn't the cause of a left shift of the demand curve.
      • wc3452, on 04/01/2008, -7/+1He got it wrong, it's the reason why there is a dead weight loss when the government puts a tariff on sugar can imports from Hondouras.
        • gn0stik, on 04/01/2008, -0/+7Pfft. There are no hobbits in Honduras.
    • commenter01, on 04/01/2008, -8/+2It might be, it just depends on how good hobbits are at giving head. This is good news too, since an increase in demand with same amount of supply (i assume hobbit numbers arent increasing and there is a constant supply of hobbit BJ's) the price per blowjob goes down!
      (reply to jemka)
      • feoren, on 04/01/2008, -8/+5Buried for typing "(reply to jemka)" instead of HITTING THE REPLY BUTTON
        • commenter01, on 04/01/2008, -9/+4buried for being an intolerant douchebag.
        • j1w2d34, on 04/02/2008, -3/+2Dug for using the word(s) "douche bag"
    • alenox, on 04/01/2008, -0/+4no he gives them...
    • Zindrix, on 04/01/2008, -2/+5Legolas is a hobbit fancier, but Sam will kill him if he tries anything.
      (wonders if somebody will get the reference)
    • Buddhaismybuddy, on 04/01/2008, -0/+14Did anyone notice that the next line says "if a croissant shop ruined your sex life....."
      • glinsvad, on 04/02/2008, -0/+3It's a pretty standard issue in croissant supply/demand theory
    • KingGorilla, on 04/02/2008, -0/+2I don't know anymore. Will April Fools ever end????
  • neocognitism, on 04/01/2008, -147/+20Nailed! Hah, as a former TA for many years myself, I can tell you that guy was REALLY lucky. Like most TA's, I would have given him a zero for whatever that entire paper was, and reported it to the professor. You just can't do childish disrespectful ***** like that not get a consequence like a child needs to receive.
    • danielcmetz, on 04/01/2008, -8/+88Did you not have a sense of humor in grad school?
      • Rikkochet, on 04/01/2008, -5/+11You seem to have forgotten what most grad students were and are like...
        • neocognitism, on 04/02/2008, -12/+4I was a very funny, and very fun TA. I always got the best reviews.

          But when it comes to doing my job, as a professional, I don't laugh at disrespectful, insulting, and grade-damaging acts of stupidity like that. Do you realize how much these students were paying for me to correct their work?

          Then again, I never had a student try that specific thing on me, although I did nail a student for cheating. Lots and lots of fudged results I called ***** on.
          • BottledSunshine, on 04/02/2008, -4/+11The closest you came to being a TA was helping hand out the milk in kindergarten
          • neocognitism, on 04/02/2008, -12/+3At least I know who looks at all my Israel-unrelated comments and buries them. My words evidently really bother your troupe. Who dugg your post, who is your shill account friend right now in this story?

            Yeah, I was a TA, BottledPiss. Now I'm an accomplished scientist. You are quite intellectually inferior to me, in point of fact.
          • johnkelsen, on 04/02/2008, -2/+10Your trolling is so *****. After 2,727 comments should you not have improved by now?
          • neocognitism, on 04/02/2008, -11/+2Aww you looked! You're all the same. Contrary to your actions, I do not care about you, and will not be looking at your profile. Bye loser.
        • Solis, on 04/02/2008, -3/+1I've yet to meet a grad student. I'm sure they're all scum.
          • neocognitism, on 04/02/2008, -7/+1Scum is a poor word, if only because there are a ton of earth-shatteringly gorgeous grad student girls. Assuming you may want to tap one of them, you blow your chances with dismissing us all as "scum."
          • BottledSunshine, on 04/02/2008, -1/+7Neo, come on you can admit it, the only time you ever got a piece of ass is when your fingers slipped through the toilet paper.
          • neocognitism, on 04/02/2008, -5/+1that's pretty good. Do they let you make unrelated personal attacks? Aren't you off-script?
    • wynja, on 04/01/2008, -8/+65Overblown wind bags need not apply.
    • diggitydoc, on 04/01/2008, -6/+96childish ***** like having to write a paper on the supply and demand of croissants?
      that's one deep assignment...
      • commenter01, on 04/01/2008, -1/+36not as deep as the hobbits went!
        zing!
        • bjornski, on 04/01/2008, -16/+2Dugg down for zinging your own comment.
    • arobar, on 04/01/2008, -5/+65Humorless people like yourself are the reason any level of school isn't the fun experience it could be.
      • neocognitism, on 04/02/2008, -12/+3I don't find that funny at all, I think it's disrespectful, bordering on sexual harassment, and exhibits a clear lack of maturity.

        That's something for high school.

        Professionals are supposed to take seriously what they do, especially if every student is paying thousands of dollars for me to correct their papers.
        • makkaveli19, on 04/02/2008, -1/+7sexual harrassment? how?
          • neocognitism, on 04/02/2008, -9/+2You can't talk about sex using language like that. You can't do it at work, in typical sexual abuse policies. Student -> Teacher in college is a professional relationship. Putting "blowjob" in a joke could honestly get that kid in a lot of trouble. You have to be very careful these days, a lot of universities have adopted a zero-tolerance approach to sexual harassment, after losing huge court cases.

            It's also really disrespectful and forward to assume you wouldn't be offending the recipient.
          • nallelcm, on 04/02/2008, -0/+4I hate the world, You can't talk about anything anymore.
    • itsthebrod, on 04/01/2008, -3/+44The students must've loved you...
      • neocognitism, on 04/02/2008, -12/+3I always received very high marks and great comments.

        It just might be that I TA'ed at two of the most competitive schools in the country. Students just didn't do things like that, and we wouldn't have tolerated it. There was no problem separating work and play.
        • itsthebrod, on 04/03/2008, -0/+6Wouldn't have tolerated it? A joke? Seriously, you must've went to one uptight school that takes its education a bit too seriously. There's nothing wrong with getting a good education but having a bit fun while you're doing it. Sheesh. Your school must've had a very high suicide rate.
          • neocognitism, on 04/03/2008, -5/+1One of them did have a high suicide rate actually, but of the grad students!

            Fun is fine, but I don't think this specific example falls under fun. I'll tell you to wash my ballsack with freshly killed coed pussy, but only because this is an informal situation. I don't know why this is so hard for diggers to understand, the separation of personal and professional.
    • bgrah449, on 04/01/2008, -11/+11Why am I not surprised neocognitism's icon isn't a weed symbol.
    • cygnus2112, on 04/01/2008, -9/+7Anal-retentive draconic assholeness? Unsurprising.
    • Ibox, on 04/01/2008, -3/+9you gunna tell your mommy too?
    • gn0stik, on 04/01/2008, -5/+10Got your lunch money stolen a few times in grade school dincha? Either that or you have mommy/daddy issues and needed to suck up for approval from the prof?
      • Solis, on 04/02/2008, -4/+3You need to be tortured and then skinned alive.
    • daveseibert, on 04/01/2008, -3/+14I am currently a TA and I definitely would not bust him. It's all good fun. But, then again, I probably wouldn't have read it closely enough...

      Maybe I should change my username before saying things like this.
      • neocognitism, on 04/02/2008, -13/+3You're a ***** TA and you do your students a disservice.
        • cygnus2112, on 04/02/2008, -1/+6It seems that the students at Digg disagree with you and agree with the other TA.
    • E9437, on 04/01/2008, -4/+15and you wonder why people hate you...?
      • neocognitism, on 04/02/2008, -10/+1They don't.
        • itsthebrod, on 04/03/2008, -0/+6Your diggs say otherwise.
          • neocognitism, on 04/03/2008, -6/+1I admit I have failed this particular popularity contest, but I have many crowns from others that reassure me.
          • hadees, on 04/03/2008, -1/+5Your Mom is supposed to say she likes you.
          • neocognitism, on 04/03/2008, -5/+1So are you one of the 'tards who buries every single one of my comments? There's two today. I don't mind it as such, but I'm curious who loves me so.

            So. Are you?
          • neocognitism, on 04/03/2008, -5/+1So you're one of my admirers who buries every single one of my comments.

            Who is the other? Who dugg your comment? Do you have the balls to admit it?
    • proliance, on 04/02/2008, -4/+7Students pay to be taught by a real professor and they get schlubs like you. Did you have a lot of students drop out of your classes?
      • neocognitism, on 04/02/2008, -9/+1Only the ones who fell behind in work or were getting poor grades.

        I didn't go to crap schools like that; the professor taught the lectures.
    • neocognitism, on 04/02/2008, -14/+4I am seriously thrilled to have my first -100 comment. That I can remember.
      • bjornski, on 04/02/2008, -7/+3I'm proud to be one of the few that didn't digg you down.

        This type of juvenile ***** should have been outgrown in high school.
        • opticwind, on 04/02/2008, -4/+4Agreed. Listen, kudos to the kid for taking a risk like this but he knew the consequences and got off light.
        • glinsvad, on 04/02/2008, -1/+4As a general rule of thumb, don't put it down on paper unless there's a reason to. Although this was quite innocent, it was unnecessary and a waste of the TA's time.
  • czeman, on 04/01/2008, -7/+119One of my high school teachers would correct our homework by having us go up to his desk and he'd appear to skim down our pages of written answers to textbook questions. I put him to the test one day, because I didn't think he was actually reading what we wrote. I wrote down stuff like,"Mary ***** her little lambs" and stuff like that. All of my answers would be random ramblings. He either decided not to bust me, or he wasn't reading one word. lol
    • Shawshanksr, on 04/01/2008, -26/+5she probably thought you were referring to her and decided to give you full marks
    • kashk5, on 04/01/2008, -0/+35I had a history teacher like that. One friend of mine would write out a summary of the previous night's baseball game right in the middle of the paper and he did well on the paper. Another friend cursed the teacher out but got caught. I guess if you want to *****, try not to curse because that sort of stuff sticks out
      • UberNick, on 04/01/2008, -0/+13We'd throw in the clause "as you're not reading this, we infer..." throughout the paper. By trial and error, we determined that our professor only read the first and last sentence of every paragraph-- unless an F bomb caught his eye mid-paragraph.
        • glinsvad, on 04/02/2008, -0/+5Confirmed by experiment! Also, you can pretty much append anything to a 10+ page scientific report as no-one will bother to read "the optionals"
    • johnomaz, on 04/01/2008, -8/+3Or, you just made this all up hoping you would be as cool as they person that wrote the paper in the scanned image.
      • czeman, on 04/01/2008, -1/+3Actually, no. In fact, one of my co-workers had the same teacher, and we were talking about that not too long ago. lol
      • jftitan, on 04/02/2008, -0/+4I did it to my US History teacher once too. However I got caught, but instead of going to the principles office. He had to save face because he wanted to know who my Special Ed teacher was. My reply to him was "I'm not in special ed... Are you assuming I'm retarded?" He ended up changing the subject and ignored me for the rest of the class.

        Simply put, I think since I made it clear that his assumption about my intelligence was incorrect, to save face he ignored me hoping I would let the subject go. Which I did. I figured since I wrote "I doubt your reading this, because honestly I really hate you." And we both called it even. But I really wanted to use the ASSume argument. "Yes, you made an Ass out of Yourself... Yes, We already discussed U."
    • Hoogs, on 04/01/2008, -3/+137In high school Spanish class my friend once showed the teacher his math homework and got full credit.
      • glinsvad, on 04/02/2008, -1/+7Math is a universal language indeed
    • ligyron, on 04/01/2008, -1/+9Yeah, I wanted to try this for this when I was in high school. So we had to write a paper, and in some random paragraph I wrote something like, "At this point, the monkey it is cold outside in the decided to run away" or something similar, so that it is noticeable enough to comment on and appear as a mistype/brainfart so they don't think I'm messing with them. I did it a couple times since, and only one time a teacher has pointed out the mistake by simply underlining it
    • DeathJux, on 04/01/2008, -1/+34I had a professor (who was also the county DA) for State and Local Politics, and he said he would always grade our papers three times, to ensure that at least one of the times he wasn't drunk.

      I think being a professor could be a lot of fun, as long as you aren't an uptight dick.
      • MacEnvy, on 04/01/2008, -0/+17Unless you care more about your own research than teaching ... I know a few natural sciences profs who are just there for the paycheck so they can do their research for free with good equipment. It usually doesn't make for very good teaching.
        • opticwind, on 04/02/2008, -0/+5You hit the nail straight on the head. And it's not just a US thing...I'm doing a study abroad in Japan the the science teachers are just as indifferent. じゃね
      • HisTumness, on 04/03/2008, -0/+3That reminds me of a French professor I had who once said he started to grade our essays, and they weren't very good. Then he had a glass of wine and looked at them again, and they were a little bit better but still not great. Then he had another glass of wine and looked at them again and this time they were good enough to grade. He was a pretty funny guy.

        This is going to get dugg down, isn't it...
    • DavidGuetta9, on 04/01/2008, -0/+13Just recently I had a business test, and wrote Hello for number 10.

      I got a 100%
    • KyleGoetz, on 04/01/2008, -0/+9That takes balls to write in high school. In my high school, that probably would have gotten you expelled, or at least suspended for a lengthy period of time.
      • czeman, on 04/02/2008, -0/+3Yeah, I can't begin to imagine what would have happened if he saw what I REALLY wrote. lol
    • TheDirtyCarl, on 04/01/2008, -0/+3We used to have an English teacher who made us do two book reports a quarter. Turns out he only read the "the climax takes place when..." part (which he made us underline) of the two page report. I used the same report for most of the year.
  • TEHxINTERWEBS, on 04/01/2008, -13/+3I did this sooo much in middle school. At my middle school teachers made you write 1-2 page papers if you ever did anything wrong (ex: cuss, throw stuff during lunch, and even going to the bathroom too much during class....wtf seriously...) and I would fill a paragraph or two with "blah blah blah" and no one ever noticed.
  • timla, on 04/01/2008, -27/+259Juvenile?: yes
    Humorous?: probably
    Disrespectful?: hardly

    TA Needs to take the stick out of his ass.
    • bromac, on 04/01/2008, -33/+20No, it's disrespectful. Putting something like that in assumes the reader isn't paying attention. It insults their intelligence.
      • CatalystGhost, on 04/01/2008, -4/+6No. If he had written it that way, he would not have changed the answer later. He would've simply left that as his actual answer to it. He clearly assumed that the reader would read that and then go on.
      • bgrah449, on 04/01/2008, -2/+12No, it's insulting his work ethic. Or are you insulting my intelligence by not thinking I'd know the difference?
      • bobbyi, on 04/01/2008, -4/+5Only in the sense that putting questions on the final exam assumes the students haven't studied and insults their intelligence.
      • Rikkochet, on 04/01/2008, -2/+7No, it's a test. Testing someone isn't disrespectful, it's seeing if something is working the way you expect it to. Tax audits aren't done out of disrespect. Tests aren't given to students out of disrespect. You don't have a road test to get your license out of disrespect - it's done to see if you actually know what you say you know.
        Sometimes people turn the tables. So what?
    • TnTBass, on 04/01/2008, -2/+128Perhaps the TA is a hobbit?
    • WNW3, on 04/01/2008, -12/+2TAs suck!
      • WNW3, on 04/02/2008, -1/+1Sure, digg me down. But do you seriously think people who stay in college to pump up the already inflated egos of douchebag professors for slave wages instead of getting out into the real world are anything but pathetic?
    • bdog9, on 04/01/2008, -0/+15It implies that he is lazy, which could be considered disrespectfull, but really, who isn't lazy?
      • Macskeeball, on 04/02/2008, -1/+11I'd type a defense against that, but I don't feel like it right now.
    • bgrah449, on 04/01/2008, -0/+4you forgot:
      probable? certainly
    • bingobongony, on 04/01/2008, -6/+7You forgot: fake? Obviously.
    • gudnbluts, on 04/01/2008, -0/+23It's disrespectful to imply Frodo would ever cheat on Sam.
    • Trichomonas, on 04/01/2008, -0/+1He could have written anything else...and using a curse word that usually will draw the readers attention to it is not a good way to see if someone is actually reading the work.
    • coresnake, on 04/01/2008, -0/+2The look on the teachers face: Priceless.


      Whoops sorry wrong meme!
    • Buddhaismybuddy, on 04/01/2008, -0/+6Did anyone notice that the next line says "if a croissant shop ruined your sex life....."
    • gamingspartan, on 04/01/2008, -1/+2Ah perhaps TA is Hobbit + love with Orlando Bloom = misconstrued hatred for another man. TA's are usually overworked an under appreciated but common thats original and he/(she;) incorporated it randomly A for Affort. Not to mention at the U of M it's 17,000 dollars a year, the professors and TA's should be laughing hardily.
    • KyleGoetz, on 04/01/2008, -1/+7#1 - Implying that the TA doesn't actually read the papers he grades? That's disrespectful, to imply that the TA doesn't do his job.
      #2 - Really? Writing about blowjobs to a perfect stranger isn't disrespectful? I suggest you go out to the real world. Your TA is a person of authority; it's just as disrespectul as talking about blowjays with your boss DURING WORK.
      • KingGorilla, on 04/02/2008, -0/+2Unless you work in the porn business
      • opmike, on 04/03/2008, -0/+2We don't like logic and reason. We prefer to live under the delusion that things in the real world operate in the same fashion as they do on the web.
    • SLockhart, on 04/02/2008, -0/+3That was extremely disrespectful. To hobbits.
  • Alphateam, on 04/01/2008, -7/+237He is lucky he got away with the spelling error too. The B in bloom should have been capitalized.
    • dlightle, on 04/01/2008, -4/+77That's grammar, son. He spelled it right.
      • LordVoldemort, on 04/01/2008, -7/+4It's not grammar.
      • klparrot, on 04/02/2008, -3/+3No, it was a spelling error, since in this case, it's not the same word if it's not capitalized. An example of a grammar error would be writing "he spelled it right", rather than "he spelled it correctly".
      • HisTumness, on 04/03/2008, -0/+4It's not a spelling error or a grammatical error, it's an orthographic error. Punctuation also falls under this category. If the error doesn't change the way you read it, it isn't a grammatical error.
        On a side note - why the hell are we arguing about this?
    • Steven8890, on 04/01/2008, -0/+7I think that would stand out more.
    • Bmarofsky, on 04/01/2008, -4/+31Speaking of the letter b, can anyone tell me how to make a backwards b?
      • powatom, on 04/01/2008, -2/+16Hold a mirror to the screen.
      • ligyron, on 04/01/2008, -0/+19Look on the back of your computer
      • MattB123, on 04/01/2008, -0/+24d
      • zanderw00t, on 04/02/2008, -3/+1Can someone explain this one to me?
      • dmoore764, on 04/02/2008, -2/+1Tell me if you are quoting something written by a professional comedic writer. If so, I will laugh, but if not, how will I really know the joke is funny?
      • yacks, on 04/02/2008, -2/+2press the key between the backwards curvy 'Z'' and the 'E' missing the button line.. do not hold the shift key though.
  • minnymoo, on 04/01/2008, -12/+4pwnd.
  • kanvas, on 04/01/2008, -1/+36THAT was the TA's problem? He should have questioned the fact that a hobbit would even consider blowing Orlando Bloom.

    • SurrealDream, on 04/01/2008, -0/+16...well, they're at the right height.
  • adh3isive, on 04/01/2008, -19/+9***** TA's.
  • vanguardanon, on 04/01/2008, -1/+56I did something similar in high school except I just wrote, "Are you actually reading this?" The first time it went unnoticed, the second time he circled it and wrote something intimidating. I didn't do it again.
    • greenlight2001, on 04/01/2008, -0/+22What did he write?
      • cdahlkvist, on 04/01/2008, -1/+64"something intimidating"
        • greenlight2001, on 04/01/2008, -2/+44Well, there's a difference between "I'll give you a 50 on your paper next time" and "I'll brain ***** your mom if you do this again, you piece of *****"
        • NathanielJ, on 04/01/2008, -11/+6There's also a difference between threats that teachers give in the real world and threats they give in the evil land of ***** that you made up in your head.
          • greenlight2001, on 04/01/2008, -3/+11Humor: It's not for everyone apparently.
          • bgrah449, on 04/01/2008, -0/+13The Evil Land of ***** ... what an awesome land. Now I'm bummed it doesn't exist.
      • speedk0re, on 04/01/2008, -3/+14i think he wrote "i'll brain ***** your mom if you do this again, you piece of *****"
    • WootZoot, on 04/01/2008, -2/+41"something intimidating" Can't you read?
  • Hincapie, on 04/01/2008, -4/+42[citation needed]
  • HailfireX, on 04/01/2008, -0/+20Maybe a friend typed that in while he wasn't looking? I know I did something similar to a friend once on his statistics homework but had the heart to tell him before he submitted it.
    • wrathchilde, on 04/01/2008, -0/+15Evil geek prank of the day: I changed my IT guy's signature file to "Evil IT Dude" in white text on white background. Only shows up in text-only email readers. he he Teach him to leave hit station unlocked.
  • IceSabre, on 04/01/2008, -0/+101Did they mention that Orlando Bloom was the TA?
    • irvin666, on 04/01/2008, -0/+10That makes much more sense now come to think of it.
    • markperia, on 04/02/2008, -0/+2nah the TA's a hobbit.
  • martinherrera, on 04/01/2008, -1/+20is this viral marketing for the next hobbit movies under production?
  • harusp3x, on 04/01/2008, -4/+0Wow.. *Paul Shaffer laugh*
    • J3EBS, on 04/01/2008, -0/+1Until there is a viral video depicting Paul Shaffer in all his laughing glary/sorrow, preferably with approximately 20 different clips strung together, this comment will be devoid of all humor.
  • jack45208, on 04/01/2008, -6/+2I carefully read it... made me laugh out loud!
  • ichunxo, on 04/01/2008, -0/+121Pretty amusing. I'm an undergraduate grader for a computer science class, and I just laugh whenever students write in jokes or crap like that. Granted, I've yet to receive a paper that talks about hobbit blowjobs, but seriously.. laugh it off. Grading papers and homeworks is BORING AS HELL, so I actually appreciate it when I can get a decent laugh out of it.
    • Clumber, on 04/01/2008, -1/+11About 4.3 epochs ago just before I left for college, my dad sat down with me to give me his Rules of Life and College. 1 of those rules was : On any test, with any prof you can count on a 50% higher grade if you can somehow make them laugh while grading. So from a B to a B+, for the math challenged. (Or in case I am typing rubbish) I found it to be very true, though it did require the additional stress of figuring out the prof's (or the TA's) sense of humor. Some of the other rules were to always sit in the front 3 or 4 rows, and at least half of the classes, be sure to ask a question in class, any related question. Your goal is not to be cool, but to stand out in class in a way that makes it harder to grade you down.

      Another one of his rules is "Never wrestle in the mud with a pig, you'll both get dirty but the pig enjoys it" but I am not sure that is relevant here. Love ya' daddy!
    • Lucasban, on 04/02/2008, -1/+2one time i turned in my english homework written in greek, and got a 100%.
  • mewmewkittys, on 04/01/2008, -5/+4Bad handwriting.
  • pharmakon, on 04/01/2008, -0/+23of course the TA was pissed, he didn't even place a proper in-text citation.
  • veryfishy, on 04/01/2008, -1/+3This is disgraceful work from this student - everyone knows Gimley was blowing Legolas....
  • iamondigghaha, on 04/01/2008, -3/+6Look, the TA's not really a TA if they don't expect to get ***** on. The right response is to let the kid know he's reading it and not get uppity about it. I think the TA handled it well.
    • nayajhen, on 04/01/2008, -0/+4Agreed, he warned him and let him off... nothing happened.
  • Supernova36, on 04/01/2008, -0/+19Who didn't do this to other peoples essays? add a single "*****" into the middle of a paragraph, set MS Word to replace 'the' with 'penis', etc..
    • moletimer, on 04/01/2008, -0/+9...or 'work' with 'wank'. That always has humorous results :P
    • oneoverzero, on 04/02/2008, -0/+5Somebody replaced every instance of "man" with "penis" in a poem he wrote for his English class. Aside from words like "penisage" (from manage), it made a surprising amount of sense. "The one eyed penis in the land of the blind" is one of the most brilliant lines of poetry ever.
  • Cornloaf, on 04/01/2008, -1/+39Junior year in high school there was one Asian girl in my class. The class was Driver's Education for half the year and Economics for the other half (I know... weird). This girl claimed that the teacher never checked her tests or homework because she was Asian. One day she showed us some work before she turned it in. Almost every answer was a joke. "Name 3 unlawful places to park your car : In a swimming pool, roof of a house, on top of an old lady." One essay question was a story about the smurfs.
    • elliott9, on 04/01/2008, -0/+12I did the same thing. I once answered an entire 20 question homework assignment with things that John liked to do to sheep.... got full credit :)
    • jserio, on 04/01/2008, -0/+24And??? Did you see the paper after it was graded? Don't leave us hanging here man!
    • jaxun, on 04/01/2008, -1/+9No WAY! Did you go to College Park (Pleasant Hill, CA), and have Mr. Bristow? I got kicked out of his Economics class my senoir year for doing the SAME DAMN THING! Turns out he read the rather off-color remark I made (trying to defend the straight A students whose GPA he was f**king with cuz he was so lazy), and I barely finished night school in time to graduate (4 hours to spare). He got the last laugh on that one. That was 1988. Good times!
      • jaxun, on 04/01/2008, -0/+4Never mind. Looks like you went to Terra Nova in Pacifica. I wonder if Bristow transferred. Or he has a clone.
        • Cornloaf, on 04/02/2008, -0/+4I am not even going to ask how you knew what school I went to. The teacher's name was Mr. George and his teeth were as fake as his hair. I also think it was 1988 when this story happened.
    • Hoogs, on 04/01/2008, -2/+2...and?
    • tian2992, on 04/02/2008, -0/+5At one test, My Language teacher wrote at the middle of a paragraph: "This section is only for testing your ability to understand instructions, you must answer only the pair questions, any other questions answered will reduce your score". Still half of the class flunked!!
  • ZeroSumDivide, on 04/01/2008, -0/+27So THAT'S why they were taking the hobbits to Isengard...
  • TarBalls, on 04/01/2008, -5/+0LOL that was funny
  • TnTBass, on 04/01/2008, -1/+3It makes sense when you consider that the TA is a hobbit, and a prude.
  • buddypriefert, on 04/01/2008, -12/+2BBC quotes Orlando Bloom who evidently doesn't think that was very funny:

    http://208.65.153.238/watch?v=uxIsiTo4VJo&Orlando_ ...
    • RgyaGramShad, on 08/28/2008, -0/+14the second i saw you started that with an ip address, i knew it would be a rick roll. fail.
    • FearLess77, on 04/01/2008, -0/+6very clever how you put the IP instead.....bastard
    • Ibox, on 04/01/2008, -0/+1DIK
  • fullofshit, on 04/01/2008, -0/+3Does anyone remember the digg article from a long time ago about the worst research paper ever? It had pictures in it etc. I still can't find that link....can anyone help me out?
  • x0rcist, on 04/01/2008, -3/+12IM A TA LOLZ RESPECT MY AUTHORITY
  • MattFromSeattle, on 04/01/2008, -1/+4Nobbin' the hobbit... A new term is born.
  • shuckl4k, on 04/01/2008, -0/+9I think that capital O was a gamble. Made it a little too noticeable.
  • rsHoratio, on 04/01/2008, -0/+3I wish I wrote text books. I would so do that!
  • DjViral, on 04/01/2008, -0/+1hahaahah hillarious
  • alexkrycek, on 04/01/2008, -0/+38My Cinema Studies professor used to draw a checkmark next to the part of the essay where he stopped reading. He reasoned that we should know when our essays started sucking.
  • Esenzi, on 04/01/2008, -0/+0but it's true!!.
  • asskicker32, on 04/01/2008, -9/+1I dont get it. How is this funny?
  • RgyaGramShad, on 08/28/2008, -0/+30look at how the next question starts… it looks like "if a croissant shop ruined your sex life"
  • nem0, on 04/01/2008, -5/+16TA is a model of what a good teacher should be. He turned this into a learning experience for the kid. He's right -- the next TA might not have a sense of humor. If the kid get's busted in the future he'll have no one to blame but himself.
    • KyleGoetz, on 04/01/2008, -1/+4This is the first truly sensible comment I've read in this discussion. I think too many Diggers have forgotten that essays for university aren't "hang out with your buddies" time.
  • Lilbrittle, on 04/01/2008, -13/+7Wasn't this already posted yesturday? Why must people resubmit crappy things? Also Reddit > Digg

    Everyone knows that picture of kevin rose looking down the fine ass womans shirt was fake. Kevin rose likes dudes...
  • mnemy, on 04/01/2008, -0/+5I did crap like that in HS history. Got away w/ it for the longest time, then the teacher actually decided to read one one day. He read some of the less explicit ones to the class. Fun times
  • Snick422, on 04/01/2008, -0/+19D1."If a croissant shop ruined your sex life..."

    Not kidding, take a closer look.
  • huxleyan, on 04/01/2008, -0/+10I'm TAing an Intro to American Govt right now, fourth semester in a row. Kudos to this TA for catching something like that.

    After reading 140 four page papers you really don't look for anything after a while. I feel sorry for my students on the bottom of the pile because I am already slightly drunk and very irritated when I get halfway through.
  • falco216, on 04/01/2008, -0/+2I Like To Capitalize Every Word.
  • digitalpencil, on 04/01/2008, -0/+3I feel sorry for him, people always write things like this when they can't think what to write and they've been at it for hours.
    I remember pulling Lee Brimelow up for finding instance names like '*****' in his flash code, apparently he just puts them in when he gets frustrated with non-working code and sometimes forgets to rename.. lol
  • triassic911, on 04/01/2008, -2/+0Bloom is a gay?
  • steelclash84, on 04/01/2008, -2/+16$10 says it was a female TA. A male TA would have laughed his ass off.
  • decker12, on 04/01/2008, -0/+10Christ, I love blowjobs.
  • Puisapres, on 04/01/2008, -0/+1Well, someone likes their slash fiction...
  • binorgog, on 08/07/2008, -1/+1The only thing that would have made that movie gayer is if Hayden Christenson was a hobbit.
  • nardo510, on 04/01/2008, -1/+1I did something like this. Their was this very good looking girl in the class and I wrote in my history assignment "If I could just tap Rachel once" he never said anything about it. I wonder if he read the paper and shrugged, I got a B- on it too.
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