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The person who came to my office

looking for work was a former Los Angeles

Dodgers minor-league baseball player.

On his résumé was this reason for leaving

his previous job: “Couldn’t hit a curveball.”

—Kenneth P. Mulder Tampa, Florida

Gilbert Gottfried on

how he got into com-

edy: “I think I was too

stupid to do anything

else, and that stupidity

helped me. Not only

was I too stupid to do

anything else, but I was

too stupid to think of

the odds against it.”

—el paso times

A vendor’s rep met

with my company’s

executive staff. After an

exasperating afternoon

in which the only opin-

ions expressed were

those of our owner, the

rep shouted, “Are you

all just a bunch of

yes-men?”

“Of course not!” one

of the executives re-

plied. “If the owner

wants us to say no,

we’re no-men!”

—cbsnews.com

That Japanese is hardly

Ariana Grande’s first

language became very

evident recently. The

25-year-old pop singer

had the name of her

album 7 Rings tattooed

in Japanese on her

left palm. But because

the translation was

long and it would have

been far too painful

to tattoo all those

characters, Grande

edited out a few.

As a result, she

will forever sport the

word shichirin, which

translates to “barbecue

grill.”

—huffingtonpost.com

WHAT FINAL GRADE

WOULD YOU GIVE TO

THESE STUDENTS’

PAPERS?

Retired English teacher
Tim Clancy collected
some insightful quotes
from his students’ work:
✦“I would recommend
this book because it
teaches that prisons aren’t
as fun as they look on TV.”
✦“The only good thing
about this essay is that
most of the words are
spelt right.”
✦“This book is very
heart clenching.”
✦“Most of the people
in Huck Finn are kind of
disgusting. They’re either
drunks or women in
bonnets.”
✦“To his dismay, he gets
killed.”
✦“Never judge someone
until you live a day in the
life of that person’s shoe.”
✦“If I didn’t
have to read and
write, I would
really enjoy
English
class.”
from best
in class
by tim clancy
(chronicle
ire books)

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