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7. Another Dell customer needed help setting up a new program, so a Dell
tech suggested he go to the local Egghead. "Yeah, I got me a couple of
friends, "the customer replied. When told Egghead was a software store,
the man said, "Oh, I thought you meant for me to find a couple of
geeks."
Am I the only teacher in the world who has never said "There are no
silly questions"? Having asked many myself (and having heard many more)
I know that is untrue, so I never say it. I am often tempted to follow
the solemn intonation of this particular absurdity by another with a
counterexample consciously constructed to refute it.