A girl I used to work with
once said she was feeling good about that nights lottery, as the jackpot was low. When I asked her what she meant by that, she told me a low jackpot meant not many people had bought tickets, so she had more chance of winning.

I got into an argument with a friend once, he was convinced the sixteen hundreds and the sixteenth century were the same thing. He was doing a degree in history at the time. He got a first.

A lot of my students play basketball, if I ask them why they like it, they always say, because it makes me taller. I can't be bothered to talk to them about the difference between causality and correlation. My job is to teach them English, not basic logic.
( The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 6:30, 4 replies)

Ah, the hundreds Vs century thing is a common one.
I get that a lot, some people cotton on fairly quickly, others will not be moved.
( The magic of chutney Shakes it like an Instagram filter!, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 7:42, closed)

Schoolfriend of mine, 30-odd years ago,
told me in no uncertain terms that we were living in the 19th century, stoooopid, obviously, because it was NINETEEN 72, durrrr!

I'd grasped it, but she hadn't, and I couldnt explain it.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 15:05, closed)

If the lottery were a raffle
she'd be right. But she seems to have missed the point that it's random numbers that are picked, not tickets out of a hat.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 8:26, closed)

Everybody knows
Casualty is on BBC1, and Corrie is on ITV. Like Derr!
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 8:30, closed)