Questions you hope your pupils won’t ask you

• Why doesn’t glue stick to the inside of its bottle?
• Why are there flotation devices under plane seats instead of parachutes?
• Why are cigarettes sold in gas stations when smoking is prohibited there?
• If nothing ever sticks to TEFLON, how do they make TEFLON stick to the pan?
• If you’re in a vehicle going the speed of light, what happens when you turn on the headlights?
• If it’s zero degrees outside today and it’s supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be?
• Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?
• How does the guy who drives the snowplow get to work in the mornings?
• You know how most packages say, “Open here?” What is the protocol if the package says, “Open somewhere else?”
• You know that little indestructible black box that is used on planes? Why can’t they make the whole plane out of the same substance?
• What do you plant to grow a seedless watermelon?
• When sign makers go on strike, is anything written on their signs?

Seven rabbits

Teacher: If I give you two rabbits and two rabbits and another two rabbits, how many rabbits have you got?

Paddy: Seven.

Teacher: No, listen carefully again! If I give you two rabbits and two rabbits and another two rabbits, how many rabbits have you got?

Paddy: Seven.

Teacher: Let’s try this another way! If I give you two apples and two apples and another two apples, how many apples have you got?

Paddy: Six.

Teacher: Good. Now if I give you two rabbits and two rabbits and another two rabbits, how many rabbits have you got?

Paddy: Seven.

Teacher: How on earth do you work out that three lots of two rabbits is seven?

Paddy: I’ve already got one rabbit at home.

Compiled by Usama Rasheed