Re: Don't give me words, lasting through time, give me no rhyme, show me!

[Dee Baer <dbaer@odin.english.udel.edu>]

Two of our WC favorites come from "diagnostic"(hate that term)essays 
written under considerable pressure:  "I came to the pitchfork in the 
road...." and "It's time to nip this thing in the butt."

I hope it doesn't seem cruel or condescending to laugh at these--for 
those of us who are reading/evaluating 150 essays in at most two days' 
time, these gems provide a smile at the wonderfulness of our language.

On Thu, 27 Mar 1997, Stephen Newmann wrote:

> One of the students in our Catholic college reported in a theology essay
> that Jesus was condomed to death. :)
> 
> 
> On Thu, 27 Mar 1997, Karen L. Morris wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Steve's "Another classic line from a student paper:  "By all intensive
> > purposes . . . "
> > (this ranks right up there with "The statute of Liberty" or one student
> > who
> > recently came to the English Department here looking to enroll in a class
> > she believed was called "suppository writing.")"
> > 
> > made me remember these gems from student papers
> > 
> > "In the mean time......" (not a time I'd like to live..... and
> > "Rape is a mounting problem on campus."
> > 
> > Karen
> > 
> > karenm@teleport.COM  (ears up, whiskers clean, and still purring) 
> > 
> > 
> 
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