And in high school (about Yr 11 or 12) we had a chemistry teacher that was Canadian or American (sorry guys if I offend by putting the two together and not being able to tell the differece),. We were talking about the chemical makeup of match heads.
Now to give you a little background, there were 3 of us and 1 of her that were trying to score the best 'hit' in class with one liners.
I asked the question, "what is the difference between the ones we have here that you have to strike on a box, and the ones that you can light off anything?" She didn't understand what I meant, until I said "you know the ones, those Yankee ones!" The silence in the room was absolute! I could have died of embarrassment.
Until one smart ass in the class shouted out "Leis you just failed this class!" The teacher came back with " NO she just failed even more!!" Bugger!
I take it by this she might have been Canadian?? |