davesec wrote:oh i remember in highschool there was this jar of formaldehyde and in it was this giant preserved salamander.. this thing must have been in that locked cabinet for 50+ years. anyway this one kid chris asked the teacher pretty much every day if he could have that salamander and the teacher kept saying he could if he behaved himself during the school year.
so the end of the school year comes and chris asks the teacher and the teacher cracks and says yes, unlocks the cupboard and gives chris the jar. and then chris runs out of the class and we see him run outside onto the parking lot and he whips the jar against a parked schoolbus.
So fucking funny!
thewarden wrote:
There were other teachers we used to torture in various ways as well, such as our science teacher-- nearing retirement--who we nicknamed "Tippy Turtle."
He was so old and so tired he used to just give us entire periods where he'd just tell us to read our books while he fell asleep at his desk. We ended up getting some of those "Magnum" markers and would keep track of how many days he'd wear the same outfit by drawing on the back of his pants while he was by our tables and then seeing the same mark for weeks at a time. We also started tagging our table during class with the markers. We started out tenatively with small little "Tippy Turtle" tags but as the weeks went on and nothing was said we got more and more ambitious until the point we were writing all over the tabletops in huge fonts. He finally took us aside and said "Boys, I know what's going on and
'Tippy Turtle' sounds like the U.S. equivalent of 'Happy Larry', my Higher physics teacher. He was hopelessly timid, and as such all sorts of stupid shit used to happen in his classes.
A) There was a long-running competition to attach crocodile clips onto the back of his suit jacket. One day he walked into lunch with 4 clips, one of which had a lead dangling from it.
B)Dennis, who sat next to me, used to steal Keith's set of highlighter pens and throw them out of the window one by one. When all the pens had gone Keith would jump out of the window (we were on the ground floor), collect his pens, walk round the outside of the building and re-enter the classroom, apologising to Larry for being late.
C)Dennis also started the penis game, which simply consisted of yelling a long, drawn-out chant of 'PEEEEEEEEEENIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS' during class.
D)Radge, the guy who sat in front of me, used to take bottles of chemicals and other apparatus and put them in people's schoolbags. He would then grass them up as they walked out of the classrooms at the end of the period.
E) I used to get dead arms a lot, and I got a C for physics. To this day I don't really understand how amplifiers work.