Teacher: John, how do you spell crocodile?

Johnny: K-R--K--D-A-I-L.

Teacher: That is incorrect.

Johnny: Maybe, but you asked me how I spell it!

Sumit Mukherjee, KG, St Xavier’s School, Durgapur, West Bengal

Man: I couldn’t sleep all night in the train.

Friend: Why?

Man: I was allotted the upper berth and I felt suffocated up there.

Friend: Why didn’t you exchange your berth with the person below?

Man: There was nobody there with whom I could exchange the lowerberth.

Sayani Mukherjee, Class V, Carmel Convent High School, Durgapur, West Bengal

Agent: I have a good and cheap apartment to rent out. You will surely like it.

Man: Oh great! By the month or by the week?

Agent: Well, by the garbage dump.

SHAMBADITYA DAS, Class VIII, St Xavier’s School, Malda, West Bengal

Two ministers were in office. Sudde-nly the phone rings. One of the ministers takes the call and starts chatting with the person at the other end.

Suddenly he shouts...

First minister: My phone is being tapped.

Second minister: How did you figure out?

First minister: Because when I sneezed a strange voice replied, “Bless you!”

Sagarika Saha, Class III, Auxilium Convent School, Bandel, West Bengal.

Divyamaan: Why are penguins popular on the Internet?

Arjun: Because they have webbed feet.

Vedant Khandelwal, Class VI, La Martiniere for Boys, Calcutta

A man enters a wrestling club with an angry face.

Man (in a challenging tone): Who is the strongest man here?

Wrestler: I am the strongest.

Man (politely): Can you help me push my car to the gas station?

Nihal Prakash, Class VI, La Martiniere for Boys, Calcutta

Mother: Anurag, why are you making that hole in your book?

Anurag: I am only doing what my teacher asked me to do.

Mother: What did your teacher ask you to do?

Anurag: He asked me to go through the ‘hole’ book.

HEENA PARVIN , Class VIII, Bokaro Ispat Vidyalaya, Bokaro Steel City, Jharkhand

Rohan: Sam, do you know the best way to differentiate between a real 100 rupee note and a fake one?

Sam: No.

Rohan: Well, take a 100 rupee note. Fold it and strike it with a hammer. Now open it. If Gandhiji’s glasses are smashed, the note in your hand is certainly a real one.

Bishwarup Biswas, Class VI, W.W.A. Cossipore English School, Calcutta