Quotes from MHS
Quotes in green
are examples of students trusting spell-check
and not their own proofreading skills!
Quotes in purple are examples of... interesting student writing.
| Quote | Source | Date |
| Hey, where did you get them one sheets at? | junior high student in the hallway, packing three grammatical errors into one sentence | 2007.05.17 |
| How do you run the volume on these things? | Andrea, senior, after four years of high school education in the state with the most wired schools in the nation | 2007.05.11 |
| I can't figure out how to turn this pencil on. | Ashley, trying to be helpful | 2007.04.04 |
| I would make the best cow. | Demetria | 2007.02.22 |
| One cannot just toss the books Doctor Zhivago and Grapes of Wrath aside lightly. One must throw the books with great force. | Demetria Waba, channeling Dorothy Parker | 2007.02.07 |
| Come on, Cory, logic is for sissies! | anonymous One-Act director | 2006.12.11 |
| I don't wear swimming trunks. | Leb | 2006.11.27 |
| Wouldn't it be fun if the school was upside down and you could walk on the ceiling? | passing fifth grader | 2006.11.22 |
| It seems like we're never going to graduate. | Allessa Scholten, sophomore | 2006.08.25 |
| Essay title: "Of Mice and Men v. Pride and Predigest" | Freshman Lit final essay | 2006.05.17 |
| CAH: "Angie, don't be a
pooper." RDD: "Be a pooper scooper!" |
Rachel DeKnikker | 2006.04.27 |
| When I can hear the donut, it's time to throw it out. | CAH on Kennon's morning snack | 2006.02.16 |
| Gene was always good when it came to studding and getting good grades.... | Freshman Lit essay | 2006.02.13 |
| Life is like trail mix: it has a lot of stuff in it. | Corinne Waba, helping eat the leftover judge lounge food after hosting CFCs | 2005.12.10 |
| ...[President Bush] did declare war and this is a very big war. The war I am talking about is The War on Tourism. | Comp I essay | 2005.11.22 |
| BS: "Patty's in Albuquerque." KK: "I thought she was in New Mexico." |
Freshman girls, helping CAH take attendance | 2005.10.28 |
| You should put cinnamons on the quiz! | Emily Jo Miller | 2005.10.27 |
| I have broccoli on my shirt! | Kyle Halgerson | 2005.09.26 |
| America for the most part has done a good job in all faucets of life.... | Cory Struck, Comp IV | 2005.09.19 |
| We're seniors. Let's do something really really easy so we can screw around the rest of the time. | Patrick Kane, on planning a Homecoming float | 2005.09.14 |
| Freshmen are little goobers most of the time. | Anonymous debate coach | 2005.09.10 |
| I can't read and walk. | Rachel DeKnikker | 2004.05.15 |
| I'm back here -- don't forget me! | Marsha Ristesund, during class congress | 2004.04.01 |
| CAH: "Do you like communism" EV: "I guess I do now." |
exchange between CAH and Emily | 2004.02.13 |
| Mankind makes me sick. | Patrick Kane | 2004.02.12 |
| I think this whole emphasis on winning and losing is overdone. | CAH | 2004.01.07 |
| Let's see that big pimpin' trophy. | anonymous math teacher | 2003.11.12 |
| I have a fly on my retainer. | Tiffany Thompson | 2003.10.17 |
| Yuck -- fly poop. | Tiffany Thompson | 2003.10.17 |
| For example Boo Radley was supposedly supposed to be this really bad guy.... | junior lit essay | 2003.10.07 |
| Some privileges are driving, voting, and excreta. | sophomore comoposition student | 2003.09.24 |
| Where's that one I knew? | DJ DeKnikker, struggling with a ten-word vocab quiz | 2003.09.19 |
| Hello, little froggie. | Rachael Donelan, interp practice | 2003.09.18 |
| This [job] could also help me deal with people who are not so brilliant... without going bonkers and commando on them. | Rachel DeKnikker, Comp I | 2003.08.25 |
| However, with this occurrence, it begins to start the beginning of peace between the two groups. | freshman lit student, on the murder of Tybalt | 2003.05.14 |
| ...I will begin to start a journey of my own. | junior writing student | 2003.04.28 |
| Romeo and Juliet...met one night at a party, and the next day were untied together as one. | freshman literature student | 2003.04.28 |
| The 4-6th grade musical is a musical that is being presented by 4-6th grade. | sophomore journalism student | 2003.04.28 |
| Research and Writhing | Keith Raap, heading for a paper for Research and Writing | 2003.04.17 |
| You cannot overstudy! | Rachel DeKnikker | 2003.04.15 |
| You can't spell crap without rap... | CAH, reading a bumper sticker | 2002.12.20 |
| ...and you can't spell wiener without iener. | Patrick Kane | 2002.12.20 |