Sunday, December 2, 2012

That Must Be It.

(History, after watching protest footage from the 1960's.)

Student 1: Why did people call the police "pigs?"

Professor: Good question. That became very common during the civil rights movement. Class? Can any of you answer that?

Student 2: Because they killed and ate black people!

(Entire class goes silent. Nobody says anything for a full 30 seconds.)

Professor: Well...no...that's not it. Anyone else?

(Class is still silent. Finally an older woman who just came back to school raises her hand and answers in a smug, "I can't believe nobody else knows this" voice.)

Student 3: Because they squealed like pigs while they planted evidence.

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+5 for racist cannibalism
+4 for the mental image of police squealing WHEE WHEE WHEE OINK while throwing evidence around a crime scene.
Total: 9

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