Some of This and Some of That
Here's a collection of classic slips of the #2 pencil by our best and brightest young students:
Homer wrote THE ODDITY.
The author of AESOP'S FABLES was Aesophagus.
If one angle of a triangle is more than 90 degrees, the triangle is obscene.
Prose may be divided into two parts: friction and non-friction.
Ibid was a famous Latin poet.
A yokel is the way people talk to each other in the Alps.
Acrimony is what a man gives his divorced wife.
In Christianity a man can only have one wife. This is called monotony.
FILET MIGNON is an opera by Puccini.
According to Shakespeare, life is a tail told by an idiot full of sound and furry.
Two shots rang out. Two of the servants fell dead, the other went through his hat.
It 1937, Eugene O'Neill won a Pullet surprise. (uh, Pulitzer Prize)
Doctors say that fatal diseases are the worst.
Doctors practice medicine until they finally get it right.
Quinine is a valuable medicine that comes from barking trees.
Damp weather is very hard on the sciences.
Nero was a cruel tyrant who would torture his subjects by playing the fiddle to them.
Originally published November 14, 2002.
