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By Barbara McLay, University of South Florida

Sometimes You Have to Laugh

I bring my own tea bags to work at the university, but since the coffee shop only charges a quarter to get a cup of hot water, milk, and sugar, instead of boiling water and having to wash cups, I just go order a medium cup of hot water every afternoon. Usually I don’t even have to say anything but hello, because the student behind the counter recognizes me and hands me my water. One day a new girl was on duty, so I said, “Medium hot water, please.” The girl turned to the supervisor and asked, “How do I get medium hot water? Do I put half boiling water and half cold?”
Pat Maher, University of South Florida

Not Yet Perfectly Fluent

Donating any organ requires surgery, and some organs require evasive surgery.

Resilience in children of divorced families usually have a positive personality.

The enforcement of alternate crimes should always be present.

But there are other cases in which patients have been very happy with physician-assisted suicide.

The sad fact is that there are so many laws that have never been passed based on the courts rather than the people’s opinion on the matter.

That is done through the engagement of the audiences to cheer for their own team by performing various stunts.

Research into drugs that limit the male’s ability to conceive should be expanded.

Preventive measures that are already in place, such as the widespread use of contraceptives, must become mandatory.

Cohabiting women were 80 percent more likely to separate or divorce than were women who decided to not move in with their spouse before marriage.

Patients who decide their lives are not worth living because of chronic illness may have licensed doctors end them with lethal doses of drugs or some other means of ending life.

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Please share with us your funny classroom experiences or faux pas from students’ papers. Send contributions to bmclay@cchd.usf.edu. Please put “LCN Humor” as the subject.

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