General Knowledge Class

A lance corporal was giving a lesson in general knowledge to a class of privates.

'Well, it's like this,' said the lance corporal didactically. 'Water boils at ninety degrees.'

In the back row a soldier wearing glasses put up his hand.

'Yes?' said the lance corporal.

The soldier got up.

'Excuse me, sir, but water boils at a hundred degrees.'

The lance corporal looked annoyed.

'Well, we have got an educated lot here,' he grumbled, 'a whole crowd of four-eyes . . .'

He opened the textbook and began to search through it, muttering as he did so: 'Smart arses . . . the educated . . .'

He found the place and looked up at the soldier in amazement.

'Well, can you beat it! You're right! It is a hundred. And ninety, that's a right angle . . .'

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