The effects of snoffle-ploffing, how to grill a Wolfe and the fact that clauses like a healthy “but” were among the topics addressed by the pun-filled Gram-O-Rama performance Thursday.
Students were lined up in the lobby of Wilson Library for half an hour before the doors opened for the performance, which is the culmination of a fall semester class.
The room’s 150 seats filled quickly and students stood lining the walls to see the annual performance.
“The energy is palpable,” said Andrew Waszkowski, a senior English major and a Gram-O-Rama performer.
Fall semester each year, the English 307 class performs skits based on its class work. The skits are filled with puns, idioms and nonsense writing.
One skit, titled “Sweeping: A Filthy Habit,” turned the word “sweep” into a slang word for hooking up. Second base was referred to as touching buckets, and at the end a girl tearfully admitted to her friend that she had almost given a boy her vacuum.
Performers kept the audience engaged and laughing throughout the production.
“I was really blown away by it,” freshman Anna Faison said. “I didn’t know what to expect.
“I think sometimes we tend to ignore grammar, and I think the fact that they were able to honor it and make people laugh at it was a really cool thing,” Faison said.
