Hooked On Phonics

I heard this joke the other morning on the radio and thought it was pretty funny. I thought you might enjoy it, too.

A teacher was looking over her lesson plans at her desk as the children were looking through books about animals. She heard one of the children say to another, "Hey, look! It's a frickin' elephant!"

Her head shot up at this and she asked, "What did you just say?"

"It's a frickin' elephant," the child repeated.

"Johnny," she explained kindly, "we don't talk like that in this classroom."

"But that is what the book says it is: a frickin' elephant," Johnny replied in his defense.

Suspecting that a mischevious child must have written the word in the book, the teacher asked Johnny to bring the book to her thinking that she could just erase it. When Johnny showed her the book, however, she saw that there was nothing to erase because the caption below the picture did say ... African Elephant.