9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for October 30, 2003
Transcript:
"Mr. Van Hoesen, I want you to stop these stories about the atmospheric navel lint glutting the ecosystem...you've got the students examining their bellybuttons all day long." "You wouldn't call it silly if you knew how much lint a navel harbor during our lives. Over just a matter of years, the contents of an unmaintained innie can be measured in metric tons." "What do you mean, 'unmaintained'?" "You mean......you've......never...?!" "Sister, could you shed any light on why Amos just raced past me yelling, 'Ticking bomb!......Ticking bomb!'?"