I just remebered the incident were I set a lab table on fire in chemistry class. (I posted briefly about it in my speed limit thread).

I forget exactly what we were doing, but I think we were putting sodium in water to make sodium hydroxide (lye) which we would then dry, powder, and use to make soap the next lab session. We were supposed to add only a little bit of sodium to the water, but i made a measurment mistake and added WAY too much. Sodium bursts into flames when it hits water, but this fire didn't stay in the beaker like it was supposed to.

I ended up failing the class, which is ironic b/c i'm directly related to Sir Humphrey davy, the guy that isolated chlorine, sodium, and various other elements, and also invented the miner's hat lantern, as well as the electrolysis process used to separate compounds into their base elements.

So, if you are having a hard time in chemistry with these elements, remember that its all thanks to me and my family.

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I have found that you can transform your character solely by the power of belief: as you believe yourself to be, so you shall become over time.

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I don't know that I have any real big mistakes like that.

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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

It was once in Jr.High School that I told some kid to 'F*** off' for one reason or another...Oh and the Principal was right behind me. But the thing is I am a good talker, so instead of suspension or two weeks detention, I got off with one nights detention. That certainly is a memorable mistake, more so the way I got out of it...but that's another story.

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My most memorable mistake was definitely in Chemistry too. You don't forget it when you get copper sulfate in your mouth.

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Have a good one,
Freelancer

Back in Sec. 4 (10th grade) I used to walk to a local music shop at lunch time and play guitar until it was time to head back to school. I don't walk very fast, and I wound up being late for class almost every time. The principal got fed up and kept me after school in detention for a half-hour. No biggie, except that the problem was that I was going to a school in a town 45 minutes away from mine and he had made me miss the bus.

Son of a *****. I was never late after that, though.

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When guitars are outlawed, only outlaws will have guitars.

what did it taste like?


"It tastes like....burning!" -ralph wiggum



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I have found that you can transform your character solely by the power of belief: as you believe yourself to be, so you shall become over time.

Imagine drinking a cup of your own blood * 10. Very coppery. But also another, strange, gagging taste. The worst part is that no matter how much you wash your mouth out, the taste doesn't go away for a couple hours. (And it stained my shirt).

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Have a good one,
Freelancer

He probably asked himself that before putting it in his mouth



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When guitars are outlawed, only outlaws will have guitars.

Nah, I'm not that far gone. I actually just dropped it and it poured all down my face and the front of my shirt. In reality I probably didn't get that much in my mouth, but it sure seemed like it.

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Have a good one,
Freelancer

Try Hydrogen Cyanide next time



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I have found that you can transform your character solely by the power of belief: as you believe yourself to be, so you shall become over time.

So far, it was in World History. I had to write an essay comparing the French Revolution with the American Revolution.

I excessively used the word "*****" wrote a paragraph in nothing but 1337, used the sentence "and then the French king told them to F*** off"
Man... it was the funniest essay I've ever written, but my history teacher didn't agree...

I never made THAT mistake again.

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www.tednation.tk

i drank a pen full of ink in geography because i was bored.

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Drugs & Stupidity, Tons of it.

I had this Social Studies teacher who was insanely strict in grade 8, she was regarded as the Nazi of our school.

I had Social Studies after lunch and, as usual, I had spent all lunch time playing soccer instead of eating anything. During class I whipped out a cheese and lettuce sandwich from my backpack when the teacher wasnt looking, and started discretely munching away, holding the sandwich under my desk when she looked my way.

As always, the teacher started walking through the class as she taught. She approached my desk just looking like she wanted to tell me off (she was one of those craggy old teachers like from a comic strip, plus I think she plain didnt like me), I was sure she had seen me eating in class and wanted to catch me red-handed. In an attempt to hide the evidence I quickly shoved the remains of my sandwich down my pants, bought both hands above my desk, and looked at her, pen and paper in hand, like I was really paying attention. She spent the rest of the class eying me apprehensively, not giving me a moment to retrieve the sandwich precariously placed down my pants.

You want a challenge? Try walking normally out of Social Studies class with wholemeal, lettuce, cheese, and mayo swirling around your durps.

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The Massassi-Map
There is no spoon.

In my senior year of high school, we had to read Don Quijote for Spanish class. I was doing fine with the version that was supposed to be for our level (Spanish IV), and was enjoying the story. Then our teacher found one that was supposed to be written for Spanish III. The lazy asses that populated my classroom being the lazy asses that they were, they voted for the level 3 version, and I was the only one who voted for the level 4 version.

The level 3 version sucked -- it translated Spanish words we didn't know into more Spanish words we didn't know. We were supposed to read it over Spring Break, but I said, "Screw it," and threw it in the trash. Lo and behold, when we returned to school, we had to write a report on "what Don Quijote did," and I felt screwed. But then I found a loophole: the assignment didn't say what he did in the story, so I wrote a story about how he bridged the economical, social, and political differences between the Moors and the Spaniards.

I got a 92%.

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<ubuu> does hitler have a last name?
<jipe> .. yes, Ubuu, we're racist commy nazi jews, and we hate male pattern baldness
<Professor`K> Sorry, but half-way through your logic, my head exploded

Im not sure if this qualifies as a mistake.. but its funny.

I finished my AP modern euro AP test about an hour early. After the 10 minutes of glancing around the room and spinning my pencil around, I decided to write an essay about how the silver surfer was the worst super hero ever. Now, This was longer than my 5 paragraph essay that I wrote about the nazi propaganda use and its effect on world war II. It was just me venting about the silver surfer however.

When I walk into class in AP the next day, the teacher said. "Now, Ive never read an essay to a class out loud before, but I have to make an exception today." And he read the.. entire.. thing..

I was never quite able to live that one down.

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"Just remember -- No matter how bad things get, Northern Minnesota will always be there"
-- Garrison Keeler

Five words--18 molar HCL on hand.

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/fluffle

Two words:

1) Holy.
2) ****.

Do you even have a hand left after that?

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Fire Pretty - Graz's Armoury - (That's my blog...)

The Soviet Bunker - (That's my forum...)

"Thou shalt not steal. (Because the government doesn't like competition!)"

How to keep an idiot busy: See below
How to keep an idiot busy: See above

Didn't happen to me, but this memory really sticks out. In seventh grade we were disecting frogs, no biggie. The kids next to me were working on their frog, and they had the "probe" tool. So this guy puts it under the frogs eye, and flips the probe. The eye goes flying across the room, hitting the window all the way on the other side. That was very funny.

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"This thread is still alive? Someone should kill it."

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I got sent back to school for farting.

We were sitting round the teacher, and we were noisy, so he sent one of us home.
I then farted. Loudly.
Everyone laughed. Teacher looked at me: "Pack up your stuff and go home"
Off I went.

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Founder of the Massassi Brute Squad (MBS)

B'tduz: A popular dwarfish game which consists of standing a few feet apart and throwing large rocks at one another's head.

"Yes, it's a bloody flying alligator setting fire to my city!" - His Grace His Excellency the Duke of Ankh, Commander Sir Samuel Vimes.

Morituri Nolumus Mori

I don't mind conc. HCl that much, I barely notice it. But what I do notice is the conc. HNO3 Good times.

In ninth grade I totally missed an essay question about an example of how evaporation is a cooling process. I felt really really stupid when the teacher reminded me about sweating.

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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right." -Isaac Asimov

yes, those weill make some nice chemical burns. It's almost like Fight club in a way.



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I have found that you can transform your character solely by the power of belief: as you believe yourself to be, so you shall become over time.

A big mistake from a friend: We were talking
and the he said that our Sport-Teacher a real stupid Idiot is an he was right behind us... But it was not realy a misatake, since that day he is more friendly than before to us.....

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I can't think of any truly memorable mistakes that I myself made, but I witnessed some pretty good ones from others.

One of my Spanish II classmates was asked to translate "My cousins are boring." His answer? "Mis primos son burros," or "My cousins are donkeys."

Among my U.S. history teacher's favorite test questions was "Who was the real first president of the United States?" Every time he put it on a test, someone managed to get it wrong.

The closest thing I have to a memorable mistake was an incident on our senior retreat. Two or three guys were in the cabin's bathroom, making far more noise than they probably should have been. The guy in the bunk below me asked "What are they doing in there?" to which I responded very loudly, just as the principal walked into the room, "Probably having sex." The principal, of course, asked, "What was that?" I just muttered, in a very tired voice, "I don't know," and went back to sleep.

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"Why aren't I'm using at these pictures?" - Cloud, 4/14/02

Mary.

edit: Upon reading the title a second time, I noticed the, "...in a class...," part, but I am going to continue to ignore it and let my original statement stand.

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"She turned me into a newt!"
Pause
"Well I got better..."

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I accidently wrote F*** twice in an essay.


I really have no idea what I was thinking, it just sort of came naturally.

I still got a good grade too.

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Kill Your Idols!

In chemistry, I lit a gas jet on fire with one of those sparker thingys. It was like a freakin flamethrower. That was awesome

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ZGPC

Well, the only thing I really remember was making a beaker explode...
I was trying to clean it out with one of those scruby things, and I used the wrong size... >.<
Course, I had to stay after and clean it all up...

Good times.

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Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream, For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not as they seem. Life is real, Life is ernest, the grave is not it's goal; Dust thou art, Dust thou returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
~William Shakespeare

I slept with my teacher for a good grade.

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Do you have stairs in your house?

Dosen't that make you worry just the least little bit?

What was your mistake?

This didn't happen in class exactly, but I had this big timeline project on India once. I had typed out all the dates and events and my mom was helping me out by cutting and gluing them for me. This was really nice of my mom, but I accidently made a typo. I put Gandhi's death as 1984 instead of 1948. Since I didn't paste the dates down, I didn't notice the mistake until after it was turned in.

Yes, because I was later blackmailed because of it.

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Do you have stairs in your house?

What subject did he teach?

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"Music is the universal language and the
dialect we speak in is Hip Hop!" - King Solomon

Health!

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Do you have stairs in your house?

He...?
Correction... I had no idea



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ZGPC

I was a girl at the time...

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Do you have stairs in your house?

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You serious?

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mir·ow ( V ) Pronunciation Key (meer-oh)
Someone or something that possesses unfathomable awesomeness

Yeah, chemical burns are fun.

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if your chem lab is on an upper floor, try filling a baloon with the gas and then throwing it out the window. Some smokers really enjoy popping balloons with lit cigarettes. This will teach them not to do that.

And some of you may wonder why people would be smoking at HS, but its more commonplace than you think. At my school, when people went out to the bleachers or into the bathroom to smoke, they would get caught every time, but for some reason they sometimes got away with it when they did it right next to the buildings. its strange how the world works sometimes. That's where i first saw the baloon trick in action.

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I have found that you can transform your character solely by the power of belief: as you believe yourself to be, so you shall become over time.

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