Funny things that campers say.

[CAMPFRIEND]

What is the funniest thing that you have ever herd out of a camper’s mouth? As we all know campers say the funniest things.

I hope you all can come up with some good ones. I need to laugh!!

[Dave]

Oh my campers have said so many funny things I don't even know where to start. My campers have said many stupid things as well, and those stupid comments are usually funny also. :P Of course I don't tell them what they said was stupid, but sometimes their comments are.

[Kerrbear]

Ok... hmmm... I think my favourite was a 6 year old boy of ours...

You see, at the top of the mountain, there's this HUGE rock that looks like an upside down jellybean, so we call it Jellybean Rock. Now, this particular camper is very observant and likes to ask a lot of questions, always ending in "right?" (sooooooo cute, I love this kid to death). Anyways, so one day he goes up to his counsellor and says "If you cut open Jellybean Rock, you'd get beans... and jelly... right?" This was 2 years ago now. So this summer, I go up to him and ask him what you'd get if you cut open Jellybean Rock. His answer? "JELLYBEANS!!!" with a huge grin and excited eyes.

[camper]

the funniest thing one of my campers said she said in her sleep. she said, "i'm not that kind of girl i don't do that kind of thing" funniest thing ever.

[CAMPFRIEND]

I love when kids talk in their sleep.

[ocean]

I have a funny one and a really cute one. This is both said by the same girl. Since my camp name is ocean, my camper comes up to me and says "Ocean do you have sharks and jellyfish that live in your tummy?"(that was the funny one)

Now for the cute one "Ocean's are blue, Ocean's are white and oceans are very very pretty and nice just like Ocean." That was the nicest thing a camper has ever said to me and she was 6 so thats very creative for her age. God I love campers.

[rockinsmiles]

Oh man there are so many funny things campers say! This year im taking a note book around with me and im gonna write those things down so i dont forget as many! ok well one funny thing a camper said was during canoes. The campers were picking partners and one of the campers were like "You can be my partner. but your going to be my slave. you have to do everything i tell ya!" of course he was joking but this other girl replied to him "We dont live in the 19th centuray you know?! this is the 21st!"

I also had a camp use a good metaphore for when he was reallly thirsty "im as dry as a biscuit!"

and last but not least "We ride togher. We die togher. And in the morning we go to Burger Kind."

[CAMPFRIEND]

Ok, Thank you rockinsmiles you have put a smile on my face for the day!

[Dave]

Oh man there are so many funny things campers say! This year im taking a note book around with me and im gonna write those things down so i dont forget as many! ok well one funny thing a camper said was during canoes. The campers were picking partners and one of the campers were like "You can be my partner. but your going to be my slave. you have to do everything i tell ya!" of course he was joking but this other girl replied to him "We dont live in the 19th centuray you know?! this is the 21st!"

I also had a camp use a good metaphore for when he was reallly thirsty "im as dry as a biscuit!"

and last but not least "We ride togher. We die togher. And in the morning we go to Burger Kind."
That notebook idea a good idea rockinsmiles.

[camper]

yeah i do the notebook thing. it's great. i have quotes from kids and other counselors in it from 2 summers so far.

[rockinsmiles]

Yeah ppl are always saying funny things left and right...the time flies though and i cant seem to remember it all. then at our staff meetings when asked to share something funny i know there is something but i just cant put my finger on it...hopefully this will work :)

[audur]

I think my favorite thing that a camper has said was last summer, during the very first session... I was a counselor for a program called "Horse Fan". We lived quite far away from the dining hall, and for nine-year-olds, the walk was sometimes very hard. About halfway through the week, the girl who would always walk slower than the rest of the group, and always complain, suddenly shouted "This is Horse Fan, not Hike Fan!" It was soooo funny.

The nicest/funniest thing a camper has sad about me, was when me and my co-counselor (her camp name is Diesel, mine is Dixie) were on a biking trip with our four crazy campers... and one night we were talking about different leadership styles and personalities or something, when one of the girls goes "You know, Diesel is kinda like the doctor, and Dixie is like the nurse... but they're both equally important!" (and the funny thing was that it is so true... me and Diesel had the hardest time trying not to laugh)

[Fleur]

I was on the bus one day after camp, and when I turned towards one of my 7-year old campers she said to me "don't worry Fleur, they're just socks." It took me a second to realize what she was talking about, but the girl was sitting with her bathing suit on, and had stuffed a couple of socks down the top of it.

Then I had another camper in one of the cabin groups at arts and crafts completely catch me off guard. Let's call him Jason (because I don't really remember what his real name was.) I asked him what his name was so I could give him a label for his project, and he says "My name is Jason, but I would prefer that you call me Eggman." The kid looked completely serious while saying this, that it was hard not to laugh. And yes, I did label his project "Eggman" ;)

[CAMPFRIEND]

Did you ask him how he came up with Eggman?

[speedx5xracer]

hmm funniest things campers said...
1.(refering to mating dragon flies) Oh look there are siamese dragon flies
2. (refering to me day befor camp started) How does larry the lobster turn into a human for the summer? *the camper was 4
3. who did you vote for in this past erection?
4. (responding to my comment of what type of kid prefers spinach over candy).. What type of adult (im 19) still watches cartoons?
thats all i can remember for now

[Flukie]

We have 3 pages in the staff book of camper quotes - and we normally track them on a wall in the staff house too. My personal favorite quote this summer was from my CITs. We were having a fire race (where you burn through the rope) and Say, one of my CITs yells out, "I am SUCH a pyro!" Her fellow CITs looked at her, shook their heads and were like, "You can't build a fire!" Her response? "I know..."

A few other ones we enjoyed...

Camper: "Skip told me her car got broken in two... But I saw it in the parking lot."
Counselor: "It got broken IN TO..."

Camper: "Skip, you and your sister look nothing alike. I mean, you have PURPLE hair."

Camper, covering her legs in sand: "Look! I'm a chicken cutlet!"

And for those of you that sail, you know that boats have a daggerboard in the middle of them to help with stability. One of our Sunfish flipped over this summer, and the girls let the daggerboard fall out. Not a big deal - they did have to get it in though. Another boat on the lake saw them, started freaking out, and pulled their daggerboard out of their boat, holding it up and yelling, "They can have ours!!!" The staff laughed really hard and told them to put it back in - the other boat would be fine. It was so cute. I love the youngest sailors.

[Fallen]

This is the one I remember the most.

We had two sisters who would always argue and get in fits. One day during me time we had the younger one tell us that her sister was punching her. So we asked the older sister to come out and talk to us. We asked her why she was punching her sister and she told us because her sister was sitting on her head. We had to try not to laugh right there because of how it sounded and how random her excuse was.

[CAMPFRIEND]

You made my day better! Thank you.

[code3cadet]

One my 15 year old CIT told the camper that it was a sauage fest in the cabin. the other kid was like sauage!!! Sauage i love Sauage.

[CAMPFRIEND]

One my 15 year old CIT told the camper that it was a sauage fest in the cabin. the other kid was like sauage!!! Sauage i love Sauage.

I bet that camper got a lot of crap for that!

[rubs]

The cutest thing a camper said to me was happened near the end of camp. The thing with this camper is that she 11 and acts tough and all that but this one time... I was sitting outside on night duty and my buddy taps me saying that hthe camper is YELLING out for me. Now this is at 11 pm and I'm pretty pissed that she's doing that. So anyways, I go into her cabin and I'm like why are you yelling like that? And she hands me her flashlight and says in the cutest. babiest voice ever: Can you look under my bed for spiders?I swear I practically melted right then and there. It was so adorable.

[code3cadet]

I bet that camper got a lot of crap for that!

No I stop it then and there. but all the staff on brack had a ball with it.

[CAMPFRIEND]

You have to love how talking about campers makes people happy.

[code3cadet]

Ya I love this gourp for that. it take me backto yester year

[gremlin_c]

We did a "Camper Quote Book" in the staff lounge. Greatest idea ever! Any time there was a funny quote it was put in the book. It was a good way to end the day or if you really needed a laugh you could just flip through the book.
One of the best in the book was a quote from a kid on overnight. On our overnight we sleep in teepees and the kids are usually from the city when they come here. Some kids were terrified of bears and when a cow mooed they asked in a terrified voice, "Why are the bears Mooing? What does that mean?"

[kettileigh]

Overheard conversation between 2 campers, summer 2004 during big thunderstorm:

Camper 1: I wonder what made God so angry that he made it thunder?
Camper 2: Probably because the president died.

I never figured out why they thought the president had died! :)

Sooo many other cute ones that I can't remember right now!

[tajarbud]

The campers may have been referring to Ronald Reagan who died on June 12, 2004...just a thought. :)

[kettileigh]

I think you're right! I think I realized that at the time and then forgot, thanks! :)

[tajarbud]

Summer time dates all get away from most folks who spend summers at camp--I know I have no day to day awareness of the non-camp world during summer:cool-smil ...I thought that was the summer and looked it up before I posted the information--:D

[Campy Measius]

We're a non-denominational camp, so for our "graces" we replace 'God' with our cooks name "May".
So, at the end of one week, a camper went up to our director, tugged on the back of her shirt and he asked "sooo... is May God's wife??"
ahahah it was too funny!

[shermanator]

Here is a story from a few years ago at a march break camp
My friend and I were looking after the older kids at the zoo when tihs one child decided to get a huge icicle. He stuck the icicle down below and started licking it, then he said where's the cream filling, 2 seconds later he got some snow smudged it on his face and said here it is. My friend and i couldn't stop laughing cause it was so funny.

[Sparkes]

Some kids were terrified of bears and when a cow mooed they asked in a terrified voice, "Why are the bears Mooing? What does that mean?"

I thought that was so funny!