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The Unofficial Manual for Graduate Teaching Assistants

The Unofficial Manual for Graduate Teaching Assistants

Teaching Introductory Computer Science Courses for Non-majors:

LATE HOMEWORK - When a student turns in his/her project two weeks late and asks for full credit, accept the late work and tell them that it will be awarded full credit. However, do inform them that you will not have time to grade it until after you complete your Ph.D.

DISRUPTIVE STUDENTS -

  1. If students will not stop talking when the class period begins, announce that there will be a quiz the following day on today's lecture. Then leave.
  2. If your students are prone to reading the school paper in class, try taking out a full page ad in the paper informing them that they are going to flunk your class.

LECTURES -

  1. In the event that you are unprepared for a lecture, be sure to use the class time to stress to the class the importance of keeping up with the readings. In fact, spend most of the class time stressing this.
  2. When the time comes to lecture on a subject you know nothing about, the art of controlled digression is invaluable. Here, you try to incite unrelated questions from the class which you answer at length. Then at the end of class scold them for digressing and tell them they'll just have to get the material from the book.

GRADING -

  1. Always use a fire engine red felt-tip marker with a 1/2 inch tip to grade papers. Position your comments strategically so that they spell "DUMB" when seen from a distance.
  2. You may grade assignments however you like. Here is a guide to quick and easy grading: 20 % Name 20 % Penmanship 50 % Homework is stapled together 10 % The work itself Warning: Be prepared for a 60% class average.

GRADING ERRORS - If student A approaches you complaining that an answer on their exam was marked incorrect but was marked correct on student B's exam, promptly mark student B's answer incorrect as well. This will redirect the heat from you onto student A.

EXTRA CREDIT -

  1. If students request extra credit to make up for the homework they didn't turn in, be sure to make the opportunity available to them. Some good extra credit problems are: Solve the dining philosopher's problem, using semaphores. Write a C compiler for the Commodore 64. Translate Moby Dick into ASCII-8 code with a leftmost odd parity bit. Design a replacement for the 80486 chip. Build a File Allocation Table (FAT) out of balsa wood.
  2. You may also wish to tell the student that they can do extra credit work while you decide whether to accept it. When the student turns in the work, decide against it.

CHEATING -

  1. When it is obvious to you that several people have copied each other's homework, grade one person's work on a separate sheet of paper, then photocopy your comments onto everyone else's homework.
  2. Should you have very skilled cheaters in your class, try giving incorrect information during your lectures. This should result in incorrect answers on exams. Examples that have proven effective include:
  • The three components of a computer system are Larry, Moe and Curly.
  • The only possible digits in the binary system are 0, 1, and 2.
  • The three components of the CPU are the ALU, REGISTERS and cheap bathroom lighting fixtures.
  • The microphone is an output device.
  • "Booting" the computer involves waving a large magnet over your hard drive for 60 seconds.
  • MS-DOS is the operating system for the CRAY Y-MP.
  • When preparing to purchase a new computer system running Windows, you should make sure it has at least 128,000 bytes of main memory.
  • Protocols include saluting your computer and calling the mouse "sir".
  • CPU stands for Ceramic Public Urinal.
  • Structured Programming says that you can write any computer program using only three basic control structures: Sequence, Selection and Guessing.

LAB - You are expected to spend at least 4 hours each week in the lab to assist with student's questions. Students have been known to come up with some real beauties:

  • "Why should I save it? I wasn't done yet."
  • "My disk erased itself!"
  • " Hurry up, I need help. This was due last week."
  • "Directory? What's that?"
  • "What do I need my textbook for? I'm using a computer." 

Here are the solutions to the most common problems:

  • P: "The screen is blank - I can't see what I'm doing" S: Turn on the monitor
  • P: "How do I get into Windows?" S: Stare at it long enough and it will start to look like candy.
  • P: "I can't get this computer to do anything." S: Have them move to a computer that has a keyboard.
  • P: "The stupid printer printed the wrong file." S: Reprimand the printer.
  • P: "WordPerfect didn't do what I told it to do." S: Tell them they have to earn its respect first.

Bonkistry Wins

Bonkistry Introductory Chemistry at Duke has been taught for about a zillion years by Professor Bonk (really), and his course is semi-affectionately known as "Bonkistry." He has been around forever, so I wouldn't put it past him to come up with something like this.

Anyway, one year there were these two guys who were taking Chemistry and who did pretty well on all of the quizzes and the midterms and labs, etc., such that going into the final they had a solid "A". These two friends were so confident going into the final that the weekend before finals week (even though the Chem final was on Monday), they decided to go up to U of Virginia and party with some friends up there.  So they did and had a great time. However, they had impressive hang overs overslept all day Sunday and didn't make it back to Duke until early Monday morning. Rather than taking the final then, what they did was to find Professor Bonk after the final and explain to him a version of why they missed the final.

They told him that they went up to U Va for the weekend and had planned to come back in time to study, but that they had a flat tire on the way back, didn't have a spare and couldn't get help for a long time, so they were late getting back to campus. Bonk thought this over and then agreed that they could make up the final on the following day. The two guys were elated and relieved.  So, they studied that night and went in the next day at the time that Bonk had told them. He placed them in separate rooms and handed each of them a test booklet and told them to begin. They looked at the first problem, which was something simple about molarity and solutions and was worth 5 points. "Cool" they thought, "this is going to be easy." They did that problem and then turned the page. They were unprepared, however, for what they saw on the next page. It said:

(95 points) Which tire?

Redneck Teaching Sex Ed

Q: Why did the redneck school stop teaching sex ed?

A: They needed the car for driver's ed.

Biology Lab

A group of students had a biology lab. As a part of this lab they were supposed to scrape some bacteria off their teeth with a toothpick and then examine it under the microscope. But this one girl had some problems identifying her bacteria and asked the professor what they were. "Those are sperm cells."

Student Bloopers - Part II!

This is a collection of actual student bloopers collected by teachers from 8th grade through college.

  • The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare. He was born in the year 1564, supposedly on his birthday.
  • He never made much money and is famous only because of his plays.
  • He wrote tragedies, comedies, and hysterectomies, all in Islamic pentameter.
  • Romeo and Juliet are an example of a heroic couplet.
  • Romeo's last wish was to be laid by Juliet.
  • Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miguel Cervantes. He wrote Donkey Hote. The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote Paradise Lost. Then his wife died and he wrote Paradise Regained.
  • One of the causes of the Revolutionary War was the English put tacks in their tea. Also, the colonists would send their parcels through the post without stamps. Finally the colonists won the War and no longer had to pay for taxis.
  • Delegates from the original 13 states formed the Contented Congress.
  • Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the Declaration of Independence. Franklin discovered electricity by rubbing two cats backwards and declared, "A horse divided against itself cannot stand." Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead.
  • Abraham Lincoln became America's greatest Precedent. Lincoln's mother died in infancy, and he was born in a log cabin which he built with his own hands. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves by signing the Emasculation Proclamation. On the night of April 14, 1865, Lincoln went to the theater and got shot in his seat by one of the actors in a moving picture show. The believed assinator was John Wilkes Booth, a supposingly insane actor. This ruined Booth's career.
  • Johann Bach wrote a great many musical compositions and had a large number of children. In between he practiced on an old spinster which he kept up in his attic. Bach died from 1750 to the present. Bach was the most famous composer in the world and so was Handel. Handel was half German half Italian and half English. He was very large.
  • Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he wrote loud music. He took long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling for him. Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died for this.
  • Louis Pasteur discovered a cure for rabbis.
  • Charles Darwin was a naturalist who wrote the Organ of the Species.
  • Madman Curie discovered radio.
  • And Karl Marx became one of the Marx brothers.
  • The First World War, caused by the assignation of the Arch-Duck by an anahist, ushered in a new error in the anals of human history.