Constance Lever-Tracy writes: > I have been wondering about a joke in "friendly fire" > It goes some thing like this > > Julie: I told my domestic science teacher that she had the IQ of > plankton. But she seemed pleased. > > I realise that Plankton (I have probably spelt it wrongly) is a > single celled creature that therefore has no IQ - but why was the > teacher pleased?? it has been bothering me for a long time. > Any ideas are welcome. She was pleased because she thought she was being complimented, when in fact she was too stupid to realise she was actually being insulted. A cruel but funny attack on domestic science teachers from Steven Moffat, who was a teacher himself ! ---------------------- Regards Vince Deehan Wembley London www.deehan.demon.co.uk -- | T H E P R E S S G A N G M A I L I N G L I S T | | | | By default, replies will go back to this list, not to | | the author of the message you're replying to. | | | | To unsubscribe from this list, mail the word | | "unsubscribe" to "pressgang-request@yoyo.org". | |