ALEX: Miss Hot Dog, are you wearing that scarf to hide a hickey?
MISS HOT DOG: Alex, I haven’t seen your dad in two weeks.
- Alex, 12th grade
January 25, 2008
December 14, 2007
Love scene
Hearing giggles and rumbles from one side of the room, I paused the video the class was watching.
MISS HOT DOG: Marcus, is this love scene making you uncomfortable?
MARCUS: This ain’t no love scene. They just talking and hugging.
WESLEY: Yeah, a love scene is when you get nekkid and do it.
MISS HOT DOG: Out of the mouths of babes.
- Marcus and Wesley, 10th grade
December 12, 2007
A new perversion
KENYA: Miss Hot Dog, Marcus be over here touchin’ my leg.
MARCUS: I am not!
KELCEY: He do that, he do! He a molester. Marcus likes to hump on kneecaps.
MARCUS: (Laughing) I do not!
KELCEY: Kneecap humper! Kneecap humper!
- Kenya, Marcus, and Kelcey, 10th grade
December 7, 2007
What women want
When I asked my students to describe the marriage between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, several of them used the new vocabulary word “emasculate.” (This was my goal! Score a point for Miss Hot Dog!) One student “slipped” and pronounced the word “emasturbate” instead. Another student, a very bright senior, jumped all over him:
“Fool! Masturbation ain’t got nothin’ to do with emasculation… unless you’re doin’ it wrong.”
- Lauren, 12th grade
December 6, 2007
White and pasty
“But, Miss Hot Dog is black. She just looks all white and pasty.”
- Marcus, 10th grade
December 5, 2007
Lipstick is a good improvement
“That lipstick is a good improvement. It matches your shoes.
…What? I just like to give compliments.”
– Michael, 12th grade
