Mr. Jacobs, the biology instructor at a posh suburban girl's junior
college, said during class, "Miss Arnold, would you please name the
organ of the human body, which under the appropriate conditions, expands
to six times its normal size, and define the conditions."
Miss Arnold
gasped, then said freezingly, "Mr. Jacobs, I don't think that is a
proper question to ask me. I assure you my parents will hear of this." With that she sat down red-faced.
Unperturbed, Mr. Jacobs called on Miss
Jones and asked the same question.
Miss Jones, with composure, replied,
"The pupil of the eye, in dim light."
"Correct," said Mr. Jacobs. "And
now, Miss Arnold, I have three things to say to you. One, you have not
studied your lesson. Two, you have a dirty mind. And three, you will
someday be faced with a dreadful disappointment."