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Helping hand

A fourth-grade teacher was giving her pupils a lesson in logic.

“Here is the situation,” she said. “A man is standing up in a boat in the middle of a river, fishing. He loses his balance, falls in, and begins splashing and yelling for help. His wife hears the commotion, knows he can’t swim, and runs down to the bank. Why do you think she ran to the bank?”

A girl raised her hand and asked, “To draw out all his savings?”

Quick thinking

Al Capp, creator of the famous comic strip Lil Abner, was once invited to a university to give a lecture to the students. Before he could begin speaking to the large group assembled in the auditorium, a very unkempt-looking student at the back shouted a vulgar word at him. The word rung in everyone’s ears.

There was a shocked silence but Capp, keeping his composure, said, “Now that you’ve given us your name, what’s your question?”

Family resemblance

My two daughters were having a discussion about family resemblance.

“I look like Mom,” said my nine-year-old, “but I have Dad’s eyes and

Dad’s lips.”

The six-year-old said, “And I look just like Dad, but I have light hair.” Then she turned to me. “Mom,” she asked, “what does Dad have to do with us being born anyway?”

Her older sister jumped right in. “Don’t be silly. Dad is the one who drove Mom to the hospital.”

Compiled by Sunil Sharma