From The Mouth Of My Marketing Teacher
- sparmet1
- May 12
- 2 min read
By Kaavya Shah
I’ve written a couple of articles about my marketing class, mostly because it’s the wildest class I’ve ever taken in my life. Every time I walk into second period, it feels like a side quest because to tell you the truth, I don’t even like marketing that much. I was totally on another planet when I was making my schedule and I picked that class. But, even though the content of the class isn’t that interesting to me, my teacher keeps my interest long enough to make me stay awake. This is a running list of some of the funniest things he’s said in class:
Watching a video and a bigger individual is being interviewed
Guy in the video: I haven’t eaten or drank anything in the last 23 hours
My teacher: dramatically pauses the video Do we really think he’s telling the truth?
Kid in the back of the class is fiddling with something
My teacher: Hey, chubby fingers! Put it down
My teacher: What kind of wings do you guys eat during the SuperBowl?
Student: I like boneless wings with barbecue sauce or ranch
My teacher: Boneless wings??!?!
Student: Yeah…?
My teacher: No! You gotta eat them with the bones like a MAN. Grab it by the sides and animal growling noises rip it right off the bone!
A student that’s kind of a troublemaker gets called to the front office
My teacher: Do you guys think he’s getting Student of the Month?
My teacher: [Student A], did you really think I wasn’t going to check if you had your lanyard and your ID?
Student B: No, she didn’t
My teacher: What are you, a spokesperson? I didn’t ask you
Student: Someone wrote a bad word in my textbook
My teacher: Okay? I told you guys these books are old
Student: Yeah but you said to tell you if something was wrong with our books
My teacher: Ask me my level of care
General Marketing Teacher Sayings
“Bubble-flip Nebraska”
“You have lost your tinkle privileges”
“Triple-swaggered up”
Putting -ski at the end of any word (test-ski, dome-ski, court-ski)
This made me laugh and nod in agreement more than once—there’s something oddly profound about how offhand marketing advice can stick with you forever. It reminded me how often we turn simple one-liners into guiding principles without even realizing it. I’ve had moments like that in my own work, especially when growing my agency with white label seo. Sometimes it’s those “throwaway” lessons that push you to build smarter, outsource wisely, and focus on what really drives results. This piece captured that chaotic genius of classroom wisdom perfectly—and turned it into something genuinely relatable and useful.