Friday, February 8, 2008

anything + "loins" = hilarity

For part of their Romeo & Juliet exam, students were supposed to memorize a few short quotations from the play. On the exam, they had to fill in blanks. Here are some of their answers.

Actual text:

  • A plague on both your houses!
    - Mercutio

Student answers:

  • A shame on both your parts!
  • A head on both your sides!

Actual text:

  • From forth the fatal loins of these two foes,
    A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life.
    - Chorus

Student answers:

  • From forth the tomb loins of these two people
  • From forth the long loins of these two families
  • From forth the cut loins of these two lovers
  • From forth the prodigious loins of these two lovers
  • From forth the vexed loins of these two families
  • From forth the deep loins of these two lovers
  • And my favorite, which gives me a hilarious visual:
    From forth the fighting loins of these two lambs

1 comment:

cathi c stegall said...

wow...i needed that!

God gives us teachers moments like these to prove to all the other poor souls in the working world that we have it best!