Jeopardy Answer: By the fourth century AD, Rome had 28 public ones stacked with rolls of papyrus.
Contestant’s Response: What are public toilets?
Correct Response: What are libraries?
Although my daughter wasn’t much of a bowler, when her friend’s bowling team was down a player, my daughter agreed to fill in.
“So how’d you do?” I asked a few days later.
She rattled off her scores: “One sixty, one sixty-seven, and one fifty-five.”
“Wow! That’s great!”
“No… One game sixty, one game sixty-seven, and one game fifty-five.”
After numerous attempts to get our 5 year old into bed, we had settled down for the evening, only to see him coming out of his room again.
His mother, now a little irritated at this last escape, asked, "Why are you out of your room?"
Our 5 year old just looked at his mother and stated, "Poop don't sleep."
My husband decided life would be easier if he wired a new light switch in the master bedroom to save us from fumbling in the dark for the lamp. He cut through the drywall and found a stash of bottles and small boxes inside the wall.
"Honey!" he called excitedly. "You've got to come here and see what I found!"
I ran in and quickly realized that his next task would be to fix the hole that now led into the back of our medicine cabinet.