We're doing a project on the Cold War in one of my classes, and a few weeks ago we made propaganda posters for either America or Russia.  The examples we looked at were HILARIOUS.  There was one with a lady holding corn with a really weird train, and another said "CAPITALISM: OUR CHILDREN'S INHERITANCE" with a stereotypical family- housewife, office dad, playing-with-dolls daughter, YMCA son.  The "Captain America" old covers were the silliest- "CAPTAIN AMERICA: COMMIE SMASHER."  

Then, after we went over the examples and common symbols for each country, we made our own, in groups. My classmate drew a lunch lady holding corn, and we used Google Translate to write on the top in big letters in Russian: "This Is In Russian."  Below it we wrote, "JOIN THE CORN."  The corn lady said, "The power of corn compels you (girl boss.)  Then, my other classmate misheard the teacher saying "forces inside the countries" and thought he said "horses."  So we drew a horse holding a sickle, and his eyes looked all weird so we named him something and colored him green and labeled him "The Horses Inside Us" in Russian. Then we drew a russian army guy holding a stone-age style hammer. 

It's not that funny recounting it now, but trust me, it was HILARIOUS at the time. 

I had to write an essay about the feelings of a character, and in the closing sentence, instead of saying she felt fury, I said she felt furry. This is why you quadruple check your work, everyone. 

Recently in social studies I was learning about oligarchy in Greece. Someone misheard and instead of oligarchy they heard Olive Garden. My social studies teacher ia fairly nice (we do get yelled at a lot) so then we ended up having debate on breadsticks. At the end of class we had to do a drawing about oligarchy versus a different form of government. Basically for the oligarchy side everyone ended up doing something Olive Garden related. (I did giant breadsticks dressed as aristocrats.) This doesn't really seem as funny recounting it but at the time it was hilarious and we all died of laughter.

A breadstick dressed as an aristocrat sounds pretty funny to me!

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my teacher: when you finish the test you can go outside for a breather!

*ten minutes later*

*entire class playing freeze tag on the field and all of us are in uniform so we're either wearing skirts or pants and can't run very well*

my teacher: ...

everyone: *hurries back into classroom* 

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