Funny Answers From Real Students

[Trudi G]

1. Water is composed of two gins. Oxygin and hydrogin. Oxygin is pure gin. Hydrogin is gin and water.

2. Most of the houses in France are made of plaster of Paris.

3. The spinal column is a long bunch of bones. The head sits on the top and you sit on the bottom.

4. The four seasons are salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar.

5. Syntax is all the money collected at the church from sinners.

6. In the middle of the 18th century, all the morons moved to Utah.

7. The word trousers is an uncommon noun because it is singular at the top and plural at the bottom.

8. A city purifies its water supply by filtering the water then forcing it through an aviator.

9. A census taker is man who goes from house to house increasing the population.

10. Define H2O and CO2. H2O is hot water and CO2 is cold water.



What the hell are kids learning in school these days?!

[Dave Tudor]

I do sometimes wonder how 'real' these sorts of lists actually are. Though I had to laugh at this:

9. A census taker is man who goes from house to house increasing the population.

I want that job!

[Wayne]

I do sometimes wonder how 'real' these sorts of lists actually are.

My thoughts too, but No.6 made me laugh!

[Dirk Gently]

1. Water is composed of two gins. Oxygin and hydrogin. Oxygin is pure gin. Hydrogin is gin and water.

This just doesn't make sense on any level.

3. The spinal column is a long bunch of bones. The head sits on the top and you sit on the bottom.

That's not wrong, that's brilliant!

4. The four seasons are salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar.

Well, for a restaurateur that's right.

6. In the middle of the 18th century, all the morons moved to Utah.

9. A census taker is man who goes from house to house increasing the population.

Nice job if you can get it.

[Paul Clement]

6. In the middle of the 18th century, all the morons moved to Utah.

That should be worth two marks.

[Stuart Wallis]

I do sometimes wonder how 'real' these sorts of lists actually are.

All I know is, I once asked my cousin's son, when he was still at school, what he'd been learning. He said, "I've been doing history. Did you know there was a queen with a moustache?"

Thinking back to my kings and queens, I could only think of one monarch who just had a moustache with no beard.

"Did she have long, curly hair?" I asked.

"Yes" came the reply.

"That's Charles the Second," said I.

And he replied "yes, that's her!"