Wed 13 Feb 2008
Chinese Poetry Class, Cathedral of Learning, Pitt Campus:
Asian Professor: Many interpretations are acceptable. Remember, there is more than one way to slice a cat.
[Class giggles.]
Asian Professor: Are you laughing because the poem is so romantic?
Girl #1: No, it’s just that you said, “There’s more than one way to slice a
cat,” when it’s really “There’s more than one way to skin a cat.”
Girl #2: Yeah, in America we don’t eat cats.
[shocked silence]
February 13th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
I would have died laughing!!! that was fantastic
February 13th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
A+
February 13th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Ah, the horrifying moment when you realize that your witty outburst was much funnier when your id came up with it. I know it well.
February 14th, 2008 at 1:52 am
haha! AWESOME!
February 15th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
It is awesome. Funny on so many levels!
February 20th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
“Yeah, in America we don’t eat cats.”
So un-PC, and yet so funny.
February 25th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
If the girl meant it as a racial attack then that kind of sucks… but still, “slice a cat”… the professor handed that one to her.
February 25th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
* She should have just gone with “There’s more than one way to eat a Reese’s.” We /do/ eat those in America.
March 7th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
I wish I’d been there for this one.
In text, I didn’t interpret her comment as either a joke or an insult. Just a further explication of the correction from someone ignorant (in the literal sense).
I really want to know what happened next.