Textbook Excerpt

I've already shared this gem with a couple of you, and the rest I hope get a laugh out of it. I got many many laughs out of it. To the point of tears. Last night I was reading through the student's textbook to prepare for class the next day and I came across an article they had to read for an in-class activity. I am going to share my favorite portion of this article with you:

Alli has some very entertaining side effects. The drug can cause explosive oily stools to involuntarily eject from your bowels. While that may sound like fun if you're at a frat party, it's certainly not an enjoyable experience when commuting, driving, or hanging out at the office. The manufacturer of Alli actually recommends that consumers "carry an extra pair of pants" with them at all times, just in case the side effects kick in. Why not just wear diapers?

Yes. This is the type of material my students read in class. How is this helpful to their language skills, you ask? Well, I think it's important to learn vital vocabulary like 'explosive' and 'enjoyable' and what it means to 'carry an extra pair of pants.' The reference about a frat party? I have nothing to say about that, and yet I have so many questions for the author of this masterpiece. What kind of frat parties he went to, for example.

I was going to title this blog "Explosive Oily Stools" but I got the feeling that you wouldn't even begin to read this because you might think that I ate some bad curry and decided to write about it.

The absolute best part is that when the students read it aloud in class today (I had to do this activity with three different classes, back to back), I was biting my lip to the point of bleeding trying my very best to keep my laughter tumbling in my lower belly and not let it escape to my throat and it didn't phase them a bit. Not one bit. It was magical.