A proud father never tired of telling how smart his son Arthur was.
“Arthur could recite the Gettysburg Address when he was ten years old. Lincoln didn’t say it until he was fifty!”
Why are ghosts bad at lying?
Because you can see right through them.
Because I couldn't unplug the toilet with a plunger, I had to dismantle the entire fixture, no small feat for a non-plumber. Jammed inside the drain was a purple rubber dinosaur, which belonged to my five-year-old son. I painstakingly got all the toilet parts together again, the tank filled, and I flushed it.
However, it didn't work much better than before. As I pondered what to do next, my son walked into the bathroom. I pointed to the purple dinosaur I had just dislodged and told him that the toilet still wasn't working.
"Did you get the green one, too?" he asked.
Where does a pessimistic space shuttle travel?
Through Negative Space.