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[thewasteland]

So at the end of last week, I was reviewing with the students the different types of nouns.

"Can anyone give me an example of a compound noun?" I asked the classrom.

Hands shot up.

I call on a student to the left of me.

"Crackhead," he replies.

I hold back some laughter and nod, "yes, how about anyone else?"

Comments

[lacrimation]

thats is great!

[bythebootstraps]

that's a good example! I had forgotten what a compound noun is, and now I shall never forget.

[fallen_scholar]

Ah, this reminds me of an old joke.

It's the day in class where everyone's getting to talk about what their parents do for a living. When the teacher finally gets around to calling on this child, he stands and hands his teacher a note. Turning to the class, he says, "my parents run a great, big whorehouse!"

The class breaks out in laughs, jeers and gasps, the teacher is stunned. Opening the note she reads it. It reads, "I'm so sorry, but we're both mathematicans, and there's no way that we could explain that to him."