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Well, if I asked a Dutch PhD which the capital of Alaska would be and correcting the wrong answer, Anchorage, he might reply: You know? You know? No, I don't know, do you?
Bad joke, anyway, but then again:
She blaims a lot of things but what to do about it?
...Selected from a third-grade geography curriculum, the $25,000 question asked: “Budapest is the capital of what European country?”
Ms. Pickler threw up both hands and looked at the large blackboard perplexed. “I thought Europe was a country,” she said. Playing it safe, she chose to copy the answer offered by one of the genuine fifth graders: Hungary. “Hungry?” she said, eyes widening in disbelief. “That’s a country? I’ve heard of Turkey. But Hungry? I’ve never heard of it.” ...
Well, if I asked a Dutch PhD which the capital of Alaska would be and correcting the wrong answer, Anchorage, he might reply: You know? You know? No, I don't know, do you?
Bad joke, anyway, but then again:
9/11... she stopped at a bar. As she sipped her bloody mary, she quietly listened to two men, neatly dressed in suits. For a second she thought they were going to compare that day’s horrifying attack to the Japanese bombing in 1941 that blew America into World War II:
“This is just like Pearl Harbor,” one of the men said.
The other asked, “What is Pearl Harbor?”
“That was when the Vietnamese dropped bombs in a harbor, and it started the Vietnam War,” the first man replied.
At that moment, Ms. Jacoby said, “I decided to write this book.”
She blaims a lot of things but what to do about it?