Dave And Nadine Joke: Dave & Nadine are at the airport in Phoenix, awaiting their flight home for Christmas. They are dressed in heavy boots, parka, scarf, mittens, all ready to head...

Kraken Loc: Barry's Bay

Dave & Nadine are at the airport in Phoenix, awaiting their flight home for Christmas. They are dressed in heavy boots,

parka, scarf, mittens, all ready to head home to the Canadian winter.

An old American couple standing nearby in shorts is intrigued by their manner of dress. The wife says to her husband,

"Look at that couple. I wonder where they're from?"

He replies, "How would I know?"

She counters, "You could go and ask them."

He says, "I don't really care. You want to know, you go ask them." She decides to do just that, walks over to the couple

and asks, "Excuse me, I've noticed the way you're dressed and I wonder where you're from?"

Dave replies, "Saskatoon, Saskatchewan."

The woman returns to her husband who asks, " So, where are they from?"

She replies, "I don't know. They don’t speak English.

joecichjr Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA

Pretty cute! And if the granny and grandpa were American, they don't know where anywhere else is because funds for teaching geography were cut about forty years ago. Merry Christmas!

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Excellent!

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

dancers Loc: melbourne.victoria, australia

I had an American friend argue with me, when I said the Romans were in Britain ages back.........She attended University and had no idea. Geog. and history, she missed out on.

Kraken Loc: Barry's Bay

dancers wrote:

I had an American friend argue with me, when I said the Romans were in Britain ages back.........She attended University and had no idea. Geog. and history, she missed out on.

I guess education is not the same everywhere.

dancers Loc: melbourne.victoria, australia

Kraken wrote:

I guess education is not the same everywhere.

your guess is correct, I would say! When I was at primary school we were taught knitting, sewing, weaving and cooking, as well as the old regular subjects...... I can still do mental arithmetic and know my "times tables" still. 80 years later.

Kraken Loc: Barry's Bay

dancers wrote:

your guess is correct, I would say! When I was at primary school we were taught knitting, sewing, weaving and cooking, as well as the old regular subjects...... I can still do mental arithmetic and know my "times tables" still. 80 years later.

Well, I can sew and I can cook and don't need a calculator to give change. We were taught history and geography.

And we respected our teachers and parents. Then about 40 or so years ago little Johnny's mother went to the

school board and said you can't fail my Johnny just because I am too lazy to help him with his schoolwork at home

and that is when everything went to hell.

dancers Loc: melbourne.victoria, australia

Kraken wrote:

Well, I can sew and I can cook and don't need a calculator to give change. We were taught history and geography.

And we respected our teachers and parents. Then about 40 or so years ago little Johnny's mother went to the

school board and said you can't fail my Johnny just because I am too lazy to help him with his schoolwork at home

and that is when everything went to hell.

When a teacher entered the classroom, we all stood and said " Good morning ,Sir/Miss" now the children address teachers by their first name. UGH

lukevaliant Loc: gloucester city,n. j.

Kraken wrote:

Well, I can sew and I can cook and don't need a calculator to give change. We were taught history and geography.

And we respected our teachers and parents. Then about 40 or so years ago little Johnny's mother went to the

school board and said you can't fail my Johnny just because I am too lazy to help him with his schoolwork at home

and that is when everything went to hell.

Moondoggie Loc: Southern California

That’s a good one! Thanks for sharing

joehel2 Loc: Cherry Hill, NJ

Too funny, made me laugh out loud.

traderjohn Loc: New York City

joecichjr wrote:

Pretty cute! And if the granny and grandpa were American, they don't know where anywhere else is because funds for teaching geography were cut about forty years ago. Merry Christmas!

I think you just got a little anal.

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

joecichjr wrote:

Pretty cute! And if the granny and grandpa were American, they don't know where anywhere else is because funds for teaching geography were cut about forty years ago. Merry Christmas!

Fallacy: granny and grandpa probably went to school over forty years ago and therefore did study geography, assuming your premise about geography in schools might be correct. which it isn’t necessarily. Lots of schools still teach geography.

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

Lighten up, people. It's a joke.

If you all think schools are so bad, why don’t you try to do something about it instead of sitting around griping? Not trying to do anything about it makes you just like those parents that you complain about not helping with homework. Think about that.