(While discussing the rationale for creating international organizations)
Student: Is it not possible that a state could create an international organization simply to serve as a diversion for other things?
Prof: How do you mean? Give me an example…
Student: Well, this one time on ‘24′…
(Class explodes in laughter)
—POLI 345 (Int’l Organizations)
Student: Is it true that a McGill professor is working on a bunker-busting bomb?
Professor: Yes, because we have learned that Concordia is up to something in their bunkers
(Class: slight laughter )
Professor: Yes, that is where they are training them to deliver pizza.
(Class: loud laughter and applause)
—POLI 227 (Intro. to Developing Areas), Leacock 132
Girl: You’ll always be my VP External!
(Handsome) Boy: Thanks baby, I can be your VP Internal if you want me to be 
Girl: EWW!
- DouglasÂ
Guy: We’re taking it back, I’m putting the rape back in diplomatic relations.
—SSMU Lounge
[Prof is doing a colonialism simulation it incldues a girl and a boy pretending to be married farmers.]
Prof: Okay, go on and farm.
[The boy and the girl go to the front, and sit down on the steps of the stage.]
Prof: Stand up, you can’t farm sitting down!
[The two students stand up, and just stand there doing nothing.]
Prof (To boy): Come on, farm! Use your hoe!
–Intro to Developing AreasÂ
Guy 1 (Giving Out Flyers): “Freezing for tuition freeze”
Guy 2: “What? This place is already cheaper than daycare!”
—Between Arts and McConnell
Prof: “Costa Rico is much better at producing bananas than Canada.”
- ECON 208
girl 1: i went to new york over break and all the flags were at half mast.
what’s up with that?
girl 2 (jokingly): saddam hussein died.
girl 1 (seriously): oh, that makes sense.
–Arts Lobby
Girl: So how was your night last night?
Guy: I dunno, we’ll have to see what the Facebook pictures say
- SnowAP Tent
[student reacting to professor's story about landmines in Zimbabwe]
Student: “Ok… I’m from Zimbabwe… where EXACTLY are the land mines?”
—POLI 244Â