Slang blooper

*January 2006
If you need a laugh today, I have just the thing.

In my Varieties in English class I get to teach the students everyday phrases and slang in my unit on Contemporary English. This week they had to hand in two of my assignments. The first was to write a short autobiography as if it were for an online dating agency to get them using casual language. In the second they had to create a conversation with a partner using some of the slang we’d just learned.

I had a few laughs over some of their sentences and I thought you might, too. In some cases they got the real definitions for the slang words a little mixed up.

A: So tonight don’t forget to pick me up to watch a flick with your new car.
B: No, I can’t. I have pain in my ass.
A: What is wrong with you?
B: Yesterday I had a fender bender on the john.
A: I’m feeling better but I’m wimpy and winks.

*In this case, I'm just glad she didn't say fender bender on a john ;)