What song was most recently stuck in your head?

I take attendance by having the students answer a question.

What song was most recently stuck in your head?

Students are in a different cultural bubble than I am, so please forgive any typos I've introduced in accidentally transcribing their handwriting, and also... I can't even tell if some of these are actual songs, or just a series of words strung together.

• Taylor Swift's new song
• Promiscuous - Nelly furtado
• Heart of Glass
• Rabbit Heart
• DARE
• Cherub Rock
• That one remix of the horrible meme song that doesn't have a name?
• chocolate chip cookie
• cold cold man
• wake me up when sept ends
• coconut song on YouTube
• Diamonds
• Anime un Po'
• I am Moana
• Pakkanen
• Liang Zhu
• My Way by Frank Sinatra
• Wagon Wheel
• the Schumann piece I'm learning
• In a sentimanta [sic] mood
• Something Just like this
• Brite Lites
• Super Rich Kids - Frank Ocean
• Rich Love
• Apartment
• Dvorak New World Symphony
• Despacito

The winner was "Dragon Tales", with two (!) votes, which I won't look up but will instead guess is a theme song to an animated TV show.

This post's theme word is epimone, "the rhetorical device of frequent repetiton of a phrase or question; dwelling on a point." LMFAO's iconic song "Shots" seems to have been mostly written by epimone, or a regular expression like:  "(shots)*".

What is the punchline of your favorite joke?

I take attendance by having the students answer a question.

What is the punchline of your favorite joke?

(I asked this previously in 2016 but that attendance sheet was so hilarious that it went missing, and I never saw the survey results. So neither did you.)

Some punchlines were to popular jokes:

• orange you glad I didn't say banana
• to get to the other side
• A-salted
• they always take things literally
• a one-eyed grape
• that's what they said
• ba dum ching
• awkward silence

I hear you, awkward silence, I hear you. (Someone also wrote "crickets", which could be a description of the noise emphasizing lack of laughter, or an actual punchline consisting of the word "crickets".)

Some punchlines made it seem possible to fill in the missing joke setup:

• hose A, hose B
• "moo"
• mooooooo
• "Broccoli, 49 cents!"
• A plant!
• Royal Executive Bond
• Juan on Juan
• Red Wedding [<-- dark="" humor="" li="">
• jk, rowling
• cheep!

Some punchlines were inscrutable:

• It's a brick!
• [student's own name]
• "Not Today"
• "Well, in the state of Wyoming, it's illegal to wave your firearm in public."
• Tony
• blue, blue, blue, blue.
• suh, dude

Protest vote appeared as "my jokes are spontaneous, not scripted". Depleted imagination wrote, "can't remember, sry". One student actually wrote both the setup and the punchline, in violation of the question.


This post's theme word is persiflage (n. formal!), "light and slightly contemptuous mockery or banter." Knock-knock jokes? I shun such persiflage and rely solely upon puns for my humor.