Did anyone see the "Ask Marilyn" column in this week's Parade
Magazine? I used to always tell my students that there are no dumb
questions, but this week she proved me wrong with a sample of 10 of
the dumbest questions I have ever heard. What was even dumber, was
her statement that they were unanswerable. Most of them were so
trivial that they should be answerable by any adult who completed
grammar school.
I'll admit that I might have trouble keeping from laughing if I was
on the receiving end of any of them, and I'll admit that a couple of
them would require a minute or two to think about how to answer them,
but unanswerable? I don't think so.