Don't you wish you'd thought of this one?

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In my Google homepage quotes of the day:

I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.
An English Professor, Ohio University

Comments

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

One of my friends once got a paper back with the single comment "Was this intended as a gross parody of illiteracy?"

[lidocafe.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. That goes on the "things to do in the last semester of my career" list.

I do wish I'd thought of this one. We do this exercise in my comp. classes where students have to mark a paper, assign a grade and say what's good and what's not. They're tougher on others than on themselves. Possible "good" comments we have come up with include these:

Your page numbers are in order.
You have used the correct font.
This paper starts at the beginning and ends an the end.
This paper was made of words.
8 1/2 by 11 is exactly the right choice.
Your paper has found its way to the right instructor.
Your paper is on a topic.

[brinian.livejournal.com]

My agility version would have to be something along the lines of 'I'm returning this wonderful dog to you despite the fact that you've done everything in your power to confuse him/her'. Students are the same no matter what the subject, I guess.