head and look at me,”
I said. “You have a Q-tip
sticking out of your ear.”
As he pulled it out,
he replied, “No wonder
the guy in there asked
me if I was getting good
reception.”
—Linda Taulbee
Redmond, OregonDuring a lesson about
adjectives, my friend,
an elementary school
teacher, asked herclass to describe their
mothers. One boy
described his mother’s
hair as auburn.
Impressed by his
sophisticated word
choice, my friend
asked, “How do you
know her hair color
is auburn?”
Her student replied,
“Because that’s what it
says on the box.”
—Joan Anastasi
Diamond Bar, CaliforniaOn our commute to
work, my husband
stopped at a conve-
nience store for coffee.
As he got back into
the car, I noticed some-
thing odd. “Turn your“All this time I assumed it was a misprint.”94 september 2019 Cartoon by Harley Schwadron
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