Teacher: What do you want to be when you grow up?
Little Johnny: I'm going to become a famous writer. I plan on writing under a pseudonym instead of my real name.
Teacher: Have you decided what name you'll use in your literary efforts.
Little Johnny: Yes, it's going to be big Johnny.
Teacher: What did you do over the long weekend?
Little Johnny: We went to Samson hill for a picnic but dad forgot to load the picnic basket. My mom looked at dad put her wrist on her hip and began to tap her toe. In seconds my dad was a hundred yards away at the bottom of the hill.
Teacher: So your dad ran away?
Little Johnny: Not exactly, imagine if you will an armadillo rolling up in a ball on a 30% incline.
Engineering classes at the University of Maryland are tough, and struggling students sometimes go to extremes in order to pass. Grading exams one semester, I got to this question: "What is the relationship between kinetic and potential energy?"
One student, obviously stumped, decided to get clever and wrote, "As far as I know, they're just friends, but there could be something else going on there."