Please Donate and Support Whats on Your Mind!

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Too Smart for first grade



A first-grade teacher, Ms. Brooks, was having trouble with one of her students.The teacher asked, "Harry,what's your problem ?"Harry answered, "I'm too smart for the 1st grade. My sister is in the 3rdgrade and I'm smarter than she is !I think I should be in the 3rd grade too !Ms. Brooks had had enough. She took Harry to the principal's office.While Harry waited in the outer office, the teacher explained to theprincipal what the situation was. The principal told Ms. Brooks he wouldgive the boy a test. If he failed to answer any of his questions he was togo back to the 1st grade and behave. She agreed.Harry was brought in and the conditions were explained to him and he agreedto take the test.Principal: "What is 3 x 3 ?"Harry: "9Principal: "What is 6 x 6?"Harry: "36".And so it went with every que stion the principal thought a 3rd gradershould know.The principal looks at Ms. Brooks and tells her, "I think Harry can go tothe 3rd grade."Ms. Brooks says to the principal, "Let me ask him some questions."The principal and Harry both agreed.Ms. Brooks asks, "What does a cow have four of that I have only two of ?"Harry, after a moment: "Legs."Ms. Brooks: "What is in your pants that you have but I do not have ?"The principal wondered, why would she ask such a question !Harry replied: "Pockets !Ms. Brooks: "What does a dog do that a man steps into ?"Harry: "Pants"Ms. Brooks: What's starts with a C & ends with a T, is hairy, oval,delicious and contains thin, whitish liquid ?Harry: "Coconut."The principal sat forward with his mouth hanging open.Ms. Brooks: "What goes in hard and pink then comes out soft and sticky ?"The principal's eyes opened re ally wide and before he could stop the answer.Harry: "Bubble gum"Ms. Brooks: "What does a man do standing up, a woman does sitting down and adog does on three legs ?"Harry: "Shake hands."The principal was trembling.Ms. Brooks: "What word starts with an 'F' and ends in 'UCK' that means a lotof heat and excitement ?"Harry: "Firetruck"The principal breathed a sigh of relief and told the teacher, "Put Harry inthe fifth-grade, I got the last seven questions wrong

No comments:

Stars That Died

Today we lost

News flash