La Cucaracha by Lalo Alcaraz for May 22, 2023

It was a stretch, but not a point.

Here is a Dumb question to ask me. “Do you like Agent Orange?”

Oh yeah, I’ve seen that.

When I was in junior high school, I had a teacher in shop class who would ask a question and then call on kids who hand’t raised their hands, I think in an effort to get them to pay more attention. Since I was one of those smartasses who actually already did know the answers, I always had my hand up, but I never got called on. So finally one day I decided “Why bother?”, and sure enuf, that was the day he called on me. So I gave the correct answer, which apparently puzzled him, because he asked “Why didn’t you raise your hand?” And I said, “Well, plenty of the other guys did raise their hands, so I figured you’d call on one of them.” I’m not sure it made any difference in his future behavior, tho.

Oh, Chato, you tease.

She knows her students.

There are no dumb questions. Except if you ignore the answer and keep asking the same question.

I’ve known people who do that.

To say that there are no dumb questions is to vastly underestimate the reservoir of incipient idiocy