Dave Barry Quotes About High School

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  • I am not one to generalize, but cartoonists, as a group, exhibit a level of social sophistication generally associated with pie fights. In high school, when the future lawyers were campaigning for class president, the future cartoonists were painstakingly altering illustrations in their history books so that Robert E. Lee appeared to be performing an illegal act with his horse.

  • I took an estimated two thousand years of high school French, and when I finally got to France, I discovered that I didn't know one single phrase that was actually useful in a real-life French situation.

    Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.32, Ballantine Books
  • In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps.

    Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway”, p.28, Ballantine Books
  • We constantly see surveys that reveal this ignorance, especially among our high school students,78 percent of whom, in a recent nationwide multiple-choice test, identified Abraham Lincoln as 'a kind of lobster.' That's right: more than three quarters of our nation's youth could not correctly identify the man who invented the telephone.

    Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States”, p.8, Ballantine Books
  • England manufactures most of the world's airline food, as well as all the food you ever ate in your junior-high-school cafeteria.

    Funny   Humorous  
    "Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need". Book by Dave Barry, 1991.
  • Speaking of food, English cuisine has received a lot of unfair criticism over the years, but the truth is that it can be a very pleasant surprise to the connoisseur of severely overcooked livestock organs served in lukewarm puddles of congealed grease. England manufactures most of the world's airline food, as well as all the food you ever ate in your junior-high-school cafeteria.

    "Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need". Book by Dave Barry, 1991.
  • I have read that, on the average, the Japanese are getting taller, but at the moment they seem to be about the same height as American junior-high-school students, only with fewer guns.

    Funny   Humorous  
    Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Does Japan”, p.40, Ballantine Books
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