A professor’s cringe-worthy pun earned an overwhelming reaction from his class of over 200 students on Monday.
Professor Moanne teaches the 2 hour Animal Science class every Monday and Wednesday, and usually sticks to putting up slides with lengthy latin names or reading word for word from the course textbook. However, this week he decided to mix things up.
“I just saw the opportunity and I took it,”
Prof. Moanne said.
“I didn’t expect the students to react so well, but I guess I’m a lot funnier than I thought.”
Moanne had been giving a captivating discussion of waterfowl migration habits when he surprised the entire lecture hall by making a pun out of the blue.
Birds don’t always know where they’re going, sometimes they just wing it,”
He chuckled.
At first, class attendees noted that a stunned silence fell over the room, but then one by one the students began to laugh and clap enthusiastically until everyone was standing and cheering a gleeful Professor Moanne.
Said Annie Kipp, 18,
“At first I was shocked, and even disturbed, then I realized it was a chance to suck up a little.”
Since the class is a requirement for many majors, the majority of Kipp’s classmates reported that they had laughed at the joke for similar reasons.A few even said they hoped their reaction would gain them a re-do on a test or maybe extra credit opportunities. Only one anonymous student disclosed that he had found the joke to be genuinely humorous.
It’s the first thing I’ve understood all semester.”
He said, shrugging.
Although there have been no indication of any more jokes in the class’s future, sources have cited spotting the Professor lingering around comedy clubs on open mic night.