Okay, crazy cat lovers — enough. Let’s get back to a topic we can all agree on, like, say, how some people are OMG soooo dumb. (Lawls all around!) For example, Jeremy claims the colorful banner to the left was posted by an R.A. at a dorm on his California college campus.
related: You say “debackle,” I say…who let you into college?
extra credit: How do you pronounce “Qatar”? [Slate]
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#1
Chesire Cat
Love it! College hijinks at its best.
First?
Feb 7, 2011 at 9:13 pm rating: 2
#2
Denny
Moroons!
Feb 7, 2011 at 9:24 pm rating: 17
#3
aaa
Somehow I get the feeling that none of the quarters were ever that RA’s best quarter.
Feb 7, 2011 at 9:26 pm rating: 14
#4
Uninspired Required Name
I resisted, what’s my prize?
Feb 7, 2011 at 9:26 pm rating: 3
#5
Spike Nesmith
Correct spelling? Pah, who cairs?
Feb 7, 2011 at 9:28 pm rating: 7
#6
Wade
Is that a sunrise on the poster? Or was it re-tasked from its previous employment as a mat under the dormitory urinals?
Feb 7, 2011 at 9:28 pm rating: 10
#7
Sam
I’m going to guess UC Irvine. They’re on quarters and they have that open stucco early 90s look.
Feb 7, 2011 at 9:29 pm rating: 0
#8
Odious
I want to make a sign:
“Quarter should be in quotes, dumb-ass number two”.
Feb 7, 2011 at 9:37 pm rating: 16
#9
Joshua
“Dumb-ass is hyphenated, Moran!”
Feb 7, 2011 at 9:42 pm rating: 17
#10
edicius
As I posted on Twitter, I’ve got that beat. This was posted on a doorway for an Admissions Open House.
http://yfrog.com/gyn2tpqj
I’m sure those parents and prospective students went away impressed.
Feb 7, 2011 at 9:44 pm rating: 18
#11
Amanda
Bahahah where did they get that big sheet of paper?
Feb 7, 2011 at 9:58 pm rating: 3
#12
Pun-DMC
thar’s nuttin’ liek kollej !
Feb 7, 2011 at 10:01 pm rating: 1
#13
Canthz_B
Poorly drawn, and badly “quartered”, so someone should be both!
Feb 7, 2011 at 10:54 pm rating: 17
#14
Meredith
It would be even funnier if they were on the semester system.
Feb 7, 2011 at 11:15 pm rating: 16
#15
clumber
In Jr. High I was on Pep Club* and I wasn’t able to make some stupid meeting the day before some all-school rally for football or soccer or some such thing. I was quite astonished the next morning to see about a dozen brightly painted with sparkles and heart-dotted i’s signs all over the halls proudly proclaiming, “Let’s get ROWIE!!!!”
Yes, they spelled Rowdy wrong in two entirely different ways in one word. leans back proudly in chair Yepper, that’s what college prep classes gettcha’. Motivation to never, ever fuck something up half-assed.
*Yes, yes I know. Yes, me. No one is more surprised than the people who know me. I even won pep club member of the year once… Go ahead, free laughs for all!
Feb 7, 2011 at 11:26 pm rating: 7
#16
Mrs.Beasley
Looks to me like the “LET’S” was stuck in as an afterthought.
Maybe the artist thought “MAKE THIS QAURTER THE BEST” just didn’t look right.
Feb 8, 2011 at 12:46 am rating: 6
#17
Jen
To be fair, for some reason writing in gigantic letters does tend to induce dyslexia. I once wrote ‘LUNGUO SAVES’ on a sign to take to a hockey game. But the thing is, I noticed as soon as I finished writing it, and rewrote it on the other side. How do you look at an English word that has any letter other than ‘u’ after a ‘q’ and not think something is wrong?
Feb 8, 2011 at 1:00 am rating: 2
#18
Nahhh
Cliché alert:
DYSLEXCIS OF TEH WORDL, UNTIE!
Feb 8, 2011 at 2:17 am rating: 2
#19
unholyghost2003
I am sure this will be the best “qaurter” as your best and brightest students are going to read that and transfer. Starting next quarter it is all down hill.
Feb 8, 2011 at 5:24 am rating: 2
#20
Canthz_B
They say “Let’s make this quarter the best” in colleges too? I thought they only said that on slot machine row…they damn near pray it!
Feb 8, 2011 at 6:37 am rating: 7
#21
AndreaC
I always felt bad for the RAs. You knew they hated being the first line of defense against bad behavior in dorms but took the job because they needed the rent free qaurters (oh yes I went there)
The fell into two categories:
1. The enforcers: oh yes indeedy there will not be any pot smoking, beer guzzling, or illicit sex going on in my area and we will very much so have team building parties and decorating committees cuz this job is going in my resume dammit!
2. The lad backers: unless the marijuana smoke miasma is affecting the visibility of the hallway to less than 2 centimeters in front of you , I ain’t even gonna get off my couch. The enforcement is limited to him shouting “keep it down in there man!” when sexual moaning can be heard all the way across campus to the admin building (2 miles away)
Feb 8, 2011 at 7:04 am rating: 6
#22
Graham
So why is it called a quarter anyway? According to my research each academic term is about 10 weeks long. That makes it about a fifth not a quarter.
And the the best at what? Drinking and fornicating? Or is there some vain hope that the readers of said poster will be inspired and actually do some studying…
Any why is it called recess? I thought a recess was an alcove.
(Grumble, moan, rant, mutter)
Feb 8, 2011 at 7:18 am rating: 0
#23
Nunavut Guy
Grab……hike…..wrench………tear! Virtual wedgy too.
Feb 8, 2011 at 9:26 am rating: 0
#24
NumismaticNerd
It reminds me of my school (Few colleges go in quarters, so it very well could be)
Yeah, Art Institute… We’re artists, not writers/grammarians…
Feb 8, 2011 at 9:43 am rating: 0
#25
H for Toy
I’d like to know what the gray writing in the middle says. All I can make out is:
“Tale #1
U a bum
Ales
Xder”
but getting that close to my computer screen makes my eyes cross.
Feb 8, 2011 at 10:40 am rating: 0
#26
DYSLEXCIS OF TEH WORDL UNTIED
They should have used Comic Sans:
http://www.comicsanscriminal.com/
Feb 8, 2011 at 11:24 am rating: 2
#27
Nuki
I think it’s cruel that they confine their RA’s to one dorm and never let them outside. They’re meant to roam free and kill rodents!
Feb 8, 2011 at 1:05 pm rating: 10
#28
Janellionaire
I think I like the neverending cat debate of 2011 better than Fucking Delicious.
Feb 9, 2011 at 1:12 am rating: 0
#29
Amy
Yeah, but you’re all forgetting in the new world of “progressive” education, we can all spell every word in whatever way affirms our self esteem or some other such nonsense.
That, and schools are more focused in teaching kids about liberal pet political causes than they are about teaching math, reading, or any other substantive curriculum.
Who cares if little Sarah’s illiterate when she goes to college? As long as she votes for Democrats, she’s just fine! /sarcasm
Feb 9, 2011 at 9:59 am rating: 0
#30
Shallow
I find myself actually compelled to comment. Mostly because I’m both horrified and amused that both sign writers are WRONG. The first one with their spelling “skillz”, and the second one with their grasp of grammar.
If I was the first sign writer I’d write a third sign reading: “Well at least I only made one mistake, instead of four, on my sign.”
At any rate, it makes me worry. I feel like their English professors should use these as learning tools.
Feb 9, 2011 at 2:06 pm rating: 0
#31
Chesire cat
I get something similar from this one woman I had to send out mass emails too for a business purpose. I would get them back saying something like “I am out of the office blah blah blah” must be annoying that anytime someone emails her and she is not there they get that back as a reply.
Feb 9, 2011 at 8:10 pm rating: 0
#32
Frankie
HAHAHA, this is the college where I got my B.A. I recognize the dorms, and I’m pretty sure my apt. was the one on the ground floor there. This was also the place where one of my R.A.s thought it’d be a smart idea to let some gang members from Richmond know that he was the “authority” in those parts, and that they better do what he said. He got knocked the eff out.
Feb 10, 2011 at 5:50 pm rating: 0
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