There's an annoying guy in my Brit Lit class who, aside from turning around in his seat to stare at whomever is talking, says inane and incomprehensible things. Today he, during a discussion of Shakespeare, suddenly put forth that the Bard was gay to which the teacher (who deserves a medal for not killing him already) replied that those sorts of reports have been made although there is little concrete evidence. He also noted that there were several biographies of late that said similar things about other historical figures; such as Abraham Lincoln and Adolf Hitler. The latter was based primarily on a photograph where he is shown in a "gay" stance, and is thus hardly basis for an entire biography. All of this is set-up for the comment for which this post is named.
So, of course, the kid said that Hitler was gay because "he kept his moustache in such good condition."
Needless to say the class couldn't let this pass as we have for so many of his other comments and people began incredulously talking amongst themselves, which unfortunately made me miss his other reasons.
I was also busy laughing with Steve.
NOTE: I would've found the picture, but I don't really want to type "gay" and "Hitler" into Google Images.
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That does sound like a particularly bad google images combo.
I'm not sure how they get into college...Maybe by collecting coins and then defeating Bowser in the eigth world? Either that or they just kind of stumble into it.
Those stories are really funny, the first because she's clearly stoopid and the second because that doesn't make any sense at all.
I'm sorry that you have to put up with someone at all like Danielle W. No one should have to.
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