GIRL (raising hand ). I thought it was Æsop that wrote fables.
BOY (raising hand ). And didn’t Esau sell his birthright, or was it copyright?
BOY (in seat, raising hand ). It says in my book that some of the stars are bigger’n the earth; ’tain’t true, is it?
TEACHER. Certainly. Why not?
BOY. ’Cause why don’t they keep the rain off, then?
C. C. FITTS. ’C-c-cause they’re round and the r-r-r-rain s-s-slides off onto us!
(Other hands are raised.)
GIRL. What’s the capital of Turkey?
TEACHER. Can you answer that, John?
JOHN (who has been inattentive). It hasn’t any capital. Pa says it’s bankrupt.