If you, like me, peaked in your school days (former "gifted" kids FTW), you still have fond memories of all the books you had to read and stuff you had to learn in high school.
im not former gifted student. i am still gifted. put me in a fourth grade class i'll annihilate them all like i did the first time
In case you'd like to chuckle through your tears and relive the glory days, here are 41 tweets that might make you both laugh and feel smart.
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he was a boy, she was his mom can i make it anymore oedipus
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police officer: there’s a dead body in your basement schrödinger: [sighing] well there is now
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shakespeare writing all of his plays
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Me: Please contact me with any questions, always happy to discuss. My students:
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WHO DID THIS???
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achilles would have gotten his shit absolutely rocked by a razor scooter
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Password must contain at least one capital letter, one number, two female characters, they must both have names, and they must talk to each other about something other than a man.
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Bring me schrodingers head
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Lady Macbeth be like
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"So, Gregor, you awoke one morning from uneasy dreams to find yourself transformed in your bed into a monstrous vermin. That's nuts. Tell me more about that."
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hitman: who am I killing? dog: ever hear of a guy named pavlov? hitman: rings a bell dog: that's right
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How to escape the minotaur's labyrinth (thread 🧵)
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dr frankenstein: it’s alive! igor: great! what should we name him dr frankenstein: uh we won’t igor: idk might lead to some confusion dr frankenstein: it will literally never come up
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Scout Finch walking by her neighbor’s house: https://t.co/diSVBSncsI
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@linguiniiiii @fanie_nani Add it to the Hall of Fame with this one
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There are two wolves inside you. One is Virginia Woolf. The other is Beowulf. You are an Introduction to English Literature syllabus.
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Ladyes yf he -ys alwayes goinge to anothir countrye -ys obsessid wyth treasure -doth brag constantlye about havinge the strengthe of thirtye peple -hath slayne Grendel He nys nat thy man. He ys the famouslye flawed hero Beowulf.
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Rage Against the Machine? Political? Next you're going to tell me Animal Farm wasn't really written about animals
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scout: hi boo radley: https://t.co/pUoGBNBX8G
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who called it Fahrenheit 451 and not English Lit
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thinking about a modern day great gatsby where instead of throwing parties he just posts indie songs on his insta story everyday hoping daisy sees and dm’s him
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people hating on the catcher in the rye as if they never had a phase when they called adults phonies and got kicked out of school and ran around nyc and cried to a sex worker smh y’all fake
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white english teachers seeing 'to kill a mockingbird' is on the syllabus
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teacher: you're currently failing english, are you reading for extra credit? me: i'm reading Animal Farm, the author is so good teacher: orwell? me: yeah [sweating] i meant the author is so well
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for me the most relatable character in Pride & Prejudice is Lady Catherine, who has never studied or played music but is confident that if she had, she would have been great at it.
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Emily Bronte truly put her entire Brontussy into Wuthering Heights with "you say I killed you, haunt me then"
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No no you misheard me—I said Jane Eyre is a PROBLEM-ATTIC novel
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The Brontë sisters were the HAIM of the 1800s
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lol who called it The Crucible and not Subpoena the Teenage Witch
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why “be the bigger person” when you can simply drop a chandelier on the paris opera audience
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sigmund freud introducing himself on the first day of class
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I don't know what member of the Danish royal family needs to hear this but check behind the tapestry before you stab it maybe
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