Among my other activities in life I am responsible for teaching 11-year-olds the finer points of mathematics. Math isn’t exactly everyone’s idea of entertainment, so I occasionally pepper in some lighter material as well. With some success. Here’s an example of me trying to be clever at school.

Me: You know the word “gullible” is misspelled in the dictionary?

Eleven-year-old: What’s a dictionary?

Nice try, Boomer.