These quotes from student papers deal with the English language, one of the most
difficult in the world to master. Fortunately, my teachers learned it to me
real good.
- A bust is something a lady wears.
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- A caucus is a dead animal.
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- A caucus is a sort of big parrot that has been taught to swear.
- A compliment is when you say something to another which he and we know is
not true.
- A connoisseur is a person who stands outside a picture palace.
- A goblet is a male turkey.
- A grass widow is the wife of a vegetarian.
- A martyr is something like a bachelor.
- A mayor is a he horse.
- A monologue is a conversation between two people, such as husband and wife.
- A pedagogue is an animal with large ears.
- A period is a dot at the end of a sentence. Period costumes are dress
all covered with dots.
- A polygon is a man with many wives.
- A prodigal is the son of a priest.
- A Protestant is a woman who gets her living through an immortal life.
- A refugee keeps order at a football match.
- A spinster is a bachelor's wife.
- Allegory is a form of literature in which virtues are made vices.
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- An eavesdropper is a kind of bird.
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- An heir is when anybody dies you get what is left.
- An optimist is a man who looks after your eyes, a pessimist looks after
your feet.
- Double dealing is when you buy something wholesale to sell retail.
- "Dour" means a sort of help, as in the hymn, "O God dour help in ages past."
- Emphasis in reading is putting more distress in one place than another.
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- Etiquette is little things you do that you don't want to do.
- Genius is an infinite capacity for picking brains.
- Matrimony is a place where souls suffer for a time on account of their sins.
- Parrafin is the next order of angels above seraphim.
- S.O.S. is a musical term meaning "same only softer."
- Syntax is all the money collected at the church from sinners.
- The future of "I give" is "I take."
- The Moratorium is a big ocean liner.
- The parts of speech are lungs and air.
- The two genders are masculine and feminine. The masculines are divided into
temperate and intemperate and feminines into frigid and torrid.
- The word trousers is an uncommon noun because it is singular at the top and
plural at the bottom.
- Trigonometry is when a lady marries three men at the same time.
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Q: Since "pro" means the opposite of "con," can you give me an illustration?
A: "progress" and "congress"