A funny error by a student

[ManOSafety]

I just felt like posting this story because it makes me laugh, I hope some of you find it enjoyable also.

Last year one of my students was writing an essay about John Huss (an early Church reformer), who was convicted of heresy. Of course, heretics were summarily put to death, typically by burning, remember Joan of Arc?

As my student is writing about the death of Huss, she writes, "...he was burned at the steak..." Needless to say, as I'm reading grading her test and run across this, I just about burst my side laughing, because her innocent misspelling actually sounds pretty darn funny. I can just picture the executioner handing Huss a T-bone and saying, "Do you mind holding this for me?"

Oh well, as I mentioned, I hope that at least a few of you find some humor in this as well.

 

[Merelan]

I prefer my heretics very rare please.

 

[R Nitelight]

Were his followers called Hussys?

 

[ManOSafety]

I'm waffling between two responses here, so I'll post both and ask y'all to vote for the better of the two

A. You know, I don't think there are that many heretics, so they are pretty rare already.

or

B. Ahh, a little heretic tartar eh?

 

[ManOSafety]

Nitelight

Sorry, but that was John Huss's cousin's college roommate's brother's friend Seymour Huss whose followers were called Hussys.

Seymour suggested that the pathway to salvation for women was by offering themselves shamelessly to a variety of men.

 

[Merelan]

And you and Nitelight are direct descendants I take it....

 

[Triatic]

Don't make jokes about burning heretics.

~looks around nervously~

Not that I have anything to hide, of course.

Um.

 

[Merelan]

Now who is putting on a bad act...