𝕆ne day a teacher walks into her classroom, and announces to the class that every Friday she'll ask a question, and any pupil who answers correctly won't have to come to school on Monday.
On the first Friday, the teacher asks, "How many grains of sand are on Omaha Beach?"
Needless to say, no one could answer.
The following Friday the teacher asks the class, "How many stars are in our galaxy?"
And again no one could answer.
Frustrated, little Johnny decides that he would somehow answer the question, next week Friday, and get a 3-day weekend. So, on Thursday night, Johnny takes two ping-pong balls and paints them black.
The next day he goes to school with them, in a paper bag in his backpack. At the end of the day, just when the teacher says, "Here's this week's question," Johnny empties the bag to the floor, sending the ping-pong balls bouncing to the front of the classroom.
Because they are children, and find any disruption of class amusing, the whole class starts laughing.
The teacher says, "Okay, who's the funny guy with the black balls?"
Little Johnny immediately stands up and says, "Eddie Murphy. See y'all on Tuesday!"
We can use either "pupil" or "student", when we speak about "élève". When I was young it was more often "school girl" or "school boy."
On the first Friday, the teacher asks, "How many grains of sand are on Omaha Beach?"
Needless to say, no one could answer.
The following Friday the teacher asks the class, "How many stars are in our galaxy?"
And again no one could answer.
Frustrated, little Johnny decides that he would somehow answer the question, next week Friday, and get a 3-day weekend. So, on Thursday night, Johnny takes two ping-pong balls and paints them black.
The next day he goes to school with them, in a paper bag in his backpack. At the end of the day, just when the teacher says, "Here's this week's question," Johnny empties the bag to the floor, sending the ping-pong balls bouncing to the front of the classroom.
Because they are children, and find any disruption of class amusing, the whole class starts laughing.
The teacher says, "Okay, who's the funny guy with the black balls?"
Little Johnny immediately stands up and says, "Eddie Murphy. See y'all on Tuesday!"
We can use either "pupil" or "student", when we speak about "élève". When I was young it was more often "school girl" or "school boy."
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