From: Joseph Kim 


Little Johnny was sitting in class doing math problems when his teacher
picked him to answer a question.
 
"Johnny, if there were five birds sitting on a fence and you shot one 
with your gun, how many would be left?"  "None.", replied Johnny. "cause 
rest would fly away."
 
"Well, the answer is four," said the teacher.  "But I like the way you
are thinking."
 
Little Johnny said, "I have a question for you now.  If there were three
women eating ice cream cones in a shop, one licking her cone, the second
biting her cone, and the third one sucking her cone, which one is married?"
 
Well,"said the teacher nervously, "I guess the one sucking the cone?"
 
"No," said Little Johnny, "the one with the wedding ring on her finger.
But I like the way you are thinking."
 
One day in class the teacher brought a bag full of fruit.
 
"Now class, I'm going to reach into the bag and describe a piece of fruit,
and you tell me what fruit I'm talking about."
 
"Okay, first:  it's round, plump and red."
 
Of course, Johnny raised his hand high, but the teacher, wisely ignored
him and picked Deborah, who promptly answered "An apple."
 
"No Deborah, it's a beet, but I like your thinking.  Now for the second.
It's soft, fuzzy and colored red and brownish.
 
Johnny is hopping up and down in his seat trying to get the teacher to 
call on him.  But she skips him again and calls on Billy.
 
"Is it a peach?"
 
"No, Billy, I'm afraid it's a potato.  But I like your thinking.  Here's
another:  it's long yellow and fairly hard."
 
By now Johnny is about to explode as he waves his hand frantically.
The teacher skips him again and calls on Sally.
 
"A banana," she says
 
"No,"  the teacher replies, "it's a sqash, but I like your thinking."
 
Johnny is kind of irritated now, so he speaks up loudly.
 
"Hey, I've got one for you teacher; let me put my hand in my pocket.
Okay, I've got it:  it's round, hard, and it has a head on it."
 
"Johnny!" she cries.  "That's disgusting!"
 
"Nope," answers Johnny, "it's a quarter, but I like your thinking!"
 
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