Girl #1: So, what exactly is Realism?
Girl #2: It’s like, the United States saying like, uhm, we want more power.
Girl #1: Awesome, thanks.
–outside LEA 132, POLI 244

Girl: You’re a tory?! But you read books!  Word books!

—Leacock

“Why is there a statue of Abraham Lincoln in a Canadian university library?”
“Because he is Abraham Lincoln.  Who doesn’t love Abraham Lincoln?”
“Um, John Wilkes Boothe.  Just a guess…”

—4th Floor McClennan

Girl #1: i went to pierre elliot trudeau college…
Girl #2: pierre elliot trudeau as in the airport in montreal?
Girl #1: pierre elliot trudeau as in the prime minister
Girl #2: is he the prime minister now?

–University/Pins

Student: “Free Burma?…What’s a burma?”
–Roddick Gates

Prof.: So Brian Mulroney used to sing and dance for the American bosses as a child in Baie-Comeau and when he became Prime Minister he never really stopped.
Class: nervous laughter

Canadian Nationalisms Class

Professor: Many of the fears over communism were exaggerated. Communists did NOT eat children! Cross my heart!

—POLI 211 Leacock 132

(after watching part of a video on the Rwandan genocide):

Girl #1: We didn’t get to finish it…so how does it end?

TA: (bewildered silence) —African Politics

Prof: “Communists eat children.”
–POLI 211

(talking about Marx’s Conflict Theory)
Prof: so what did Marx think was needed for the people to come together?
Class: silence
Prof: MUSIC! you know, like Madonna…(pauses, begins to sing and dance) “Music, makes the people, come together…”
Class: awkward laugh
—SOCI 388