Humor Hall of Fame

Cartoon by Dan Piraro / bizarro.com

The note I left on my middle-school student’s test said: “Please look up the meanings of suppository and depository.” It was in response to a question he’d answered concerning where Lee Harvey Oswald was when he assassinated President Kennedy.

—KAREN SKOPHAMMER FORT DODGE, IOWA

“In Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis,” I said to my sophomore English class, “a man, discontented with his life, wakes up to find he has been transformed into a large, disgusting insect.” A student thrust her hand into the air and asked, “So is this fiction or nonfiction?”

—DIANE STURGEON SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA