"stalin Put On A Nice Spread..."

[boxtops]

From the exam howlers - http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=420614

[jno]

as Ibid says...

[boxtops]

LOL, a whole new meaning to referencing!

[jno]

those are excellent

[abstibus]

One of mine wrote that Durkheim's greatest achivement was his suicide.
Another wrote that Mao Zedong took care of the ladles.
Mind boggling.

[Zacs-Master]

When I was about 8 I did some work on Chaucer's Canterbury tales and wrote 'they went to various places and revealed themselves to one another. It was pinned on the classroom wall on parents evening.

[sandyRoe]

Chairman Mao did have an eye for the ladies. I never knew he kept an eye on the kitchen gear too.

[boxtops]

I still remember my domestic science teacher sniggering (I didn't know why) when I wrote that you have to keep an eye on the storage of flour, as you can get orgasms in it.

[emmie]

books written on valium, i expect some were, x

[boxtops]

You'd have to use very tiny writing, em :-)

[emmie]

it just goes to show that our education system really needs to up it's game.

[boxtops]

I wrote that in 1962, em - plus ca change....

[AB Editor]

Marvellous.

[emmie]

what is?

[abstibus]

Here are some from nurses:
the bile ducks
a weekend va@ina (don't know if I can write the full word, Ed.)

[ichkeria]

I believe the Stalin quote, not sure I believe the others, especially the "valium" one. It has the same ring of authenticity about it as Francis Drake "circumcising the world with a ten-foot clipper", which I am damn sure IS made up :-)
Another possibility is that it's actually someone being rather clever (!)

[emmie]

Or Master Bates and Seaman Stains from Pugwash.

[ichkeria]

The Pugwash names of course are an urban legend...

[jno]

now now, em, the Guardian had to pay damages for repeating the myth about Seaman Staines