Pollution
A sixth-grade teacher asks her class the following question. “What are the harmful environmental effects of an oil spill on fish?”
Little Bobby responds, “One day when my dad and I went fishing, he opened a can of sardines, and it was full of oil.”
The teacher asks, “And what is your point Bobby?” Bobby replied, “They were all dead Mam.”
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A linguistics professor says during a lecture, “In English, a double negative forms a positive. But in some languages, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, in no language in the world can a double positive form a negative.”
But then a voice from the back of the room pipes up, “Yeah, right.”
Here lies…
A lawyer by the name of Strange died. His family asks the tombstone inscriber to write, “Here lies Strange, an honest man and a lawyer” on the headstone.
The inscriber suggests this would confuse the passerby, who would think three people were buried there.
He suggests, “Here lies a man who was both honest and a lawyer.”
“When anyone walks by,” he explains, “They’ll be certain to remark, ‘That’s Strange.’”
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