Okay, that just made my day! I'm an editor and some of the stuff I read every day would make you run screaming, but these were absolutely priceless! Can't wait to share them with my college-aged daughter!

And I agree the satire of the descriptive phrase crossed with the SAT math question was the best I've read in a while!

Thanks for sharing the laugh!

TinaLee

Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

That was mmy favorite. It reminds me of my freshman year roommate who so astutely observed (in regards to one of our hallmates): It's like he like likes her.

I moved out after a month.

Thanks baldworth, this brighten my day at work!

<i>5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.</i>

LOL Thank you so much Baldworth!!

laclaire, I thought this entire list, was like, Brilliant !

A friend of mine, a lecturer in English, sent me this one from an exam:

&quot;My friend really annoys me when she behaves like a pre-Madonna.&quot;

Hilarious, Underhill!

Great post, it deserves to go ttt.

Or is that pre-Madonna behavior?

I'm still chuckling - a bit like the sound a dog............

Are people here assuming these are all meant to be serious? I'm sure that at least some of them are intentionally funny. Numbers 7, 9 and 19, for example. Maybe they all are....

As mentioned above, they aren't really high school writings, but are from another source and have been around for awhile. I wish my high school students could have been so witty, satirical and ironic.

My old homeroom teacher in Alicante still has a photocopy of an essay I wrote in which I call the Sistine Chapel the Cistern Chapel and describe the bare-bottomed angel as having his &quot;culo al aire&quot; which roughly translates to &quot;his ass hanging out.&quot;

Thank God my language skills got better!

I wish these things don't come up in class- I had a student ask me if I was in junior high &quot;pre-Madonna&quot; . He was definitely trying to figure out how old I was... not asking me if I was spoiled.

Three fun lessons, rolled into one!

1) How old I am
2) How long Madonna has been around
3) The meaning of &quot;pre-Madonna&quot;.

The best part of the lesson was the kids comparing my age to the age of their parents...

Very...VERY funny!!!!

My sister &amp; I went to Venice...we she came back to her office....she had a phone message.
&quot;Are you back from Venus?&quot;
The girl answering the phones had been telling clients all week that she was in Venus.