GRADE 8

“And go tell that Tracy Arnett chick that we don’t like seeing her poster up all over the place.”
-Madi’s dad

“Hey! Keep your hands off my John Deere shirt!”
-Luca

“If I were any hotter, I’d be incandescent!”
-Maleika

“Crikey!”
-Madi

“Maleika! Arrête de toucher Colin!”
-Mme. Parent

“The seraphim are the angels; the great guns of God!”
-Ms. Manser

“Take off that mask, it’s not Halloween yet!”
-Andre

“Actually, I think only men like Axe. Whenever I pass a woman she’s like ‘God, what is that dreadful concoction?’”
-Luca

“I don’t think Alex B.L. should dress up as a girl for Halloween. He hasn’t got the legs for it.”
-Dale

“How tall is Clifford?”
-Alex O.

“Did you just tell Peter to stop dawdling? Boy, are you ever a hypocrite.”
-Madi

“Yeah, I’m a ladykiller.”
-Luca

“Alex Stothart would make a good merman.”
-Maleika

“If you egg your house, it wasn’t me.”
-Vincent Dragnea

“Nasty old cow.”
-Luca, about ‘Ole Betsy’

“I don’t want to hear “uhn”, Peter!
-Maleika

“I’m the epitome of niceness.”
-Morgan Williams

“Luca, just keep working…and stop doing perverted things with the eraser.”
-Ms. Manser

“ARE THE MOUNTAINS STILL THERE?”
-Alex Stothart

“You know who’s hot? Nicole Ritchie. She can drive my choo-choo train.”
-Alex Okuda-Rayfuse

“C’était comme…EEW!”
-Mark Xue

“Are you smoking ugly weed?”
-Andre

“I’m going to kick you until you move!”
-Catherine Guo

“How dare me! Imperfection! Imperfection!”
-Mark

“Happy birthday, Mr. President!”
-Alex O., in his seductive Marilyn Monroe voice

“Oh my gosh, Bryana has the cutest shirt ever!”
-Ben (seriously)

“Oh yes, I’m hairy everywhere-EVERYWHERE!
-Dale

“Technically, we don’t have HOMEWORK in class. TECHNICALLY, it’s not HOMEWORK until we get HOME!
-Peter

“You were a total dork. With your long hair and your ‘cooler-than-thou’ attitude, you strutted around talking about church, and no offence to church, but you dorkacized it. You were the weirdest thing I had ever seen.”
-Maleika, about Madi in fifth grade

“Maleika, that’s really freaky. You’re like Santa’s pimp or something!”
-Catherine

“Caroline Aubrey is so hot, I want to fry bacon on her.”
Alex O.

“You know, dreaming about beautiful women isn’t easy. You really need to get it into focus.”
-Luca

“I’ll teach you a thing or two about cylinders!”
-Nathan

“Hey! Don’t talk smack about Barrhaven!”
-Janan

“Hey! ‘Calcul’ is like ‘Calcutta’!
-Alex S.

“I’m going to kick Peter’s butt, and I’m going to kick it just like I kick my locker-hard, and a lot.”
-Dale (about the debates)

“…So that’s how I invented paper. Oh, you want to hear about the time I invented the wheel? Ok, so me and my cave buddies were hangin’ around and I’m all like we need to go somewhere and they’re like yeah, so we got these square things called wheels and I’m like, dudes, squares don’t roll…”
-Janan

“Oh, great then, let’s just blow up the atmosphere.”
-Maleika

“Elvis Costello is so wannabe. ‘Hi, I’m Elvis, but not that Elvis’.
-Nathan

“James? Is that even a name?”
-Owen Saar

“The first sketch of the month I did…it was a perfect flower…IT WAS A F***ING VAN GOGH!”
-Luca

“Hi, I’m Mariah Carey and I lost 30 million pounds on the new corn-only diet! Shut up, Mariah, no one likes you!”
-Janan

“Just to let you all know, I’m an EXTREMELY talented recorder player. I start playing and people open their windows to listen to me.”
-Maleika

“Madame, this test was poorly made! Probably in China!”
-Luca

“Yahtzee’s like the hardest game of all time.”
-Owen

“How do you THINK a car starts? With magic? With pretty little rainbows coming out of it?”
-Luca

“You know, Owen, your haircut is really growing on me.”
“No, it’s growing on my head.”
-Maleika and Owen

“We’re going to be doing Edgar Allen Poe this month, which fits into our Halloween theme nicely.”
“But he was a pedophile!”
“Well, yes he was, among other things…”
“But…but…he just sat at home and molested small children and touched himself!”
-Ms. Manser and Luca

“What do you think of John A. MacDonald?
“I think he’s HOT.”
-Madi and Maleika

“Je vois que Monsieur Owen a quelque chose à dire.”
“Yeah, Mr. Owen always has something to say.”
-Mme. Parent and Janan

“What’s brown and sticky?”
“Molasses?”
“No! A stick!”
-Maleika and Gregory

(About Henry VIII) “He was a fat tub in the later years of his life.”
“Alex, you’re a fat tub!”
“How can he be a fat tub? He’s only 60 pounds!”
“SEVENTY-FIVE!!!”
Alex O., Colin, Alex S.

“Ha ha! Mark’s chasing his dreams!”
“Better than you. What are you chasing, Jasmine Shaw?”
-Dale and Mark

“Dale, there’s something in my pocket that’s cold and hard. Do you know what it is?”
“Your heart?”
“No. Guess what? I have twenty dollars in my pocket!”
“Wow. So that’s how much you sold your soul for.”
-Maleika and Dale

“Madi, you might have to slide over a seat, I don’t think it’s working so well with you and Maleika sitting together.”
“But Mr. Beaton, if we sit farther away, we’ll just have to talk louder!”
Mr. Beaton and Maleika

(About three-pin) “But cheating’s the best part!”
“Well you’re certainly not going to get a girlfriend with that attitude!”
-Dale and Maleika

“I don’t care much for Morgan Stedman.”
“Ha. You and your morals! That’s just your way of saying you really hate her.”
-Madi and Christine

“Nathan! What is this!”
“A drawing, see? I even labeled it: Me, knife, hippie.”
“You know, Nathan, sometimes I just don’t know what to do with you…”
-Ms. Manser and Nathan

“What do you think of Bill Nye?”
“Well…to put it nicely…I sure hope he has another life BECAUSE HE SURE HAS WASTED THIS ONE!”
-Madi and Catherine

“You’ve been to France but you don’t even know what the Seine is?”
“Oh, wait! Viva la France!”
-Maleika and Nathan