Ignorance is Blitz

As I work in Higher Education, I can't exactly say that I approve of plagiarism. In fact, I obviously don't approve of or condone it at all. However, there are times when dealing with an academic dishonesty violation may be easier for a professor than reading actual papers written by certain college students.

Today I found a book with dozens of examples of terrible, stupefying excerpts from college essays and papers. If you want to laugh until you cry (even the back of the book says you will!), I highly recommend it to you. The book was edited and compiled by Anders Henricksson and is entitled, Ignorance is Blitz, Mangled Moments of History from Actual College Students.

Here are a few tidbits that made my eyes water, both from laughter and pity.

"Prehistory, a subject mainly studied by anthroapologists, was prior to the year 1500. When animals were not availiable the people ate nuts and barrys."

"Rulers were entitled Faroes. A famed one was King Toot."

"Zorroastrologism was founded by Zorro. This was a duelist religion."

"The three gods were, 'Good,' 'Bad,' and 'Indifferent." These beliefs later resurfaced among the Manatees."

"Cesar inspired his men by stating, 'I came, I saw, I went.'"

"Mary and Joseph went from inn to inn trying to find a place for Jesus to be born, but they were refused everywhere because they were Jewish."

"Eventually Christian started the new religion with sayings like, 'The mice shall inherit the earth.' Later Christians fortunately abandoned this idea."

and my personal favourite:

"During the Dark Ages it was mostly dark."

I'm not sure if I should really react this way, but this book makes me feel very smart.

* UPDATE!: Fiona pointed out that the dark ages really were dark. History once again has triumphed. In case you still aren't a believer here is an article that can tell you all about it.
Who knew that student was a secret genius?