Deeply suspicious as I am, as all parents must be, of anything arising from,

referring to, or connected with kids’ TV, I cannot find it in me to dislike

my daughter Nellie’s “Nickelodeon” magazine, which contains some clever and

witty stuff. Try this from the current (Dec/Jan 2005) issue, p.64. In a

comic strip filling the page, a teacher asks his class if they have any

questions. They come up with the following:

“Why is ‘abbreviation’ such a long word?”

“What was the best thing before sliced bread?”

“We know the speed of light is 186,000 miles per second… but what’s the

speed of dark?”

“Why isn’t ‘phonetic’ spelled the way it sounds?”

“What’s another word for ’synonym’?”

“Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical questions?”

As kids’ humor goes, this is good stuff.