John R Purcell

I know a man who used to be a school teacher. Teaching at the grade school level can be stressful and frustrating and requires a special type of person to do it without losing their mind when their efforts do not get the results they would like.
Unfortunately, the person I know was not able to cope with the difficulty he had trying to teach a sixth grade class history, and eventually went slightly mad and decided to become a computer geek instead, not knowing he was going from the frying pan into the fire. Poor man.

Some answers that sixth grade students gave to a History test:

1. Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of
Gaul. The Ides of March murdered him because they thought
he was going to be made king. Dying, he gasped out: "Tee hee,
Brutus."

2. Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak and was cannonized by
Bernard Shaw.

3. Queen Elizabeth was the "Virgin Queen." As a queen she
was a success. When she exposed herself before her troops
they all shouted "Hurrah".

4. It was an age of great inventions and discoveries. Guten-

The following are more answers to a history exam given to
sixth grade students:

1. The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William
Shakespeare. He was born in the year 1564, supposedly on his
birthday. He never made much money and is famous only
because of his plays. He wrote tragedies, comedies, and
hysteractomies, all in Islamic pentameter. Romeo and Juliet
are an example of a heroic couple.

2. Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miguel
Cervantes. He wrote Donkey Hote. The next great author was

I am usually not surprised at the weird things I read about that occur in California, but an item that appeared in the Los Angeles Times had me wondering, “

What is wrong with those people?”

The first line of the item reads as follows:

“Afraid that a population explosion among squirrels in a city park could prove a public health risk, officials in one California town (Santa Monica)are ready to try a proven method of dealing with the problem: birth control shots.”

If you have served in the military and managed to complete your tour of duty without committing any major indiscretions and were relatively well behaved, you were probably awarded a "Good Conduct Medal". As far as I know , they did not give out the actual medal,but you did receive an insignia ribbon that you wore pinned to your uniform, along with any other insignia ribbons you may have earned, to indicate that you had earned the medal. You could purchase the medal yourself if you so desired.

It was early one morning just beginning to get light. The street was deserted except for me and then I saw him standing in the roadway. I could see that he was big and muscular with a really ugly face. A feeling of foreboding came over me and I quickly reached in my pocket for my Swiss pocket knife in the event that I might have to defend myself. He made no move- ment toward me so I tried to hide my apprehension and put forth a friendly greeting and hoped he would respond in kind. He eyed me warily as I approached and spoke,