Teacher asks the class to make a sentence using the word "contagious". First hand up is Athol, the class suck, teacher asks him for his sentence, "My mum has the flue and she can't give me a kiss as the flue is very contagious" excellent says the teacher. Next hand up is little miss perfect Celia, "My grandfather said that in the war sometimes if one man was scared it wasn't long before a lot of them were as fear is contagious", great example said the teacher. Next was Sam, the class clown, "The man next door to our house is painting all his weatherboards on his house with a two inch paint brush, my dad said it would take the contagious". End of lesson said the teacher.

an oldie but still good

Yep Dave. Around 15 years back it was a truck losing a load of oranges on Parramatta Road on the way to the markets. Took him a long time to pick them up as well but it was that little bastard Johnie who had the punch line for the teacher!

DH