Me: So the deal with the Qin Dynasty is that government critics were sometimes banished or executed.
Student: What does that mean?
Me: Well......banished means being sent away and killed......that's pretty much self-explanatory, right?
Exasperated student: No, I mean what is a government critic?
Me: Pretty much every voter in America last Tuesday.
I crack myself up.
Exasperated, she means.
ReplyDeleteAnd you're crackin' the rest of us up, too.
:-)
Ummm, yeah, that's what I meant.
ReplyDelete9 years in college and still I can't spell for squat.