Teaches stumble upon different kinds of students during their career. Some of them need some extra attention and help, and others stun them with their bright answers.
Many times, however, there are students who are naturally witty and add to the fun that is often times part of the lesson.
This teacher had an amusing story to share when she gave little Johnny a basic math task to solve. His answer will make you burst out laughing!
Teacher: “If I gave you two cats and another two cats and then another two, how many would you have?”
Johnny: “Seven!”
Teacher: “No, no, listen carefully… If I gave you two cats, and another two cats and another two, how many would you have?”
Johnny: “Seven.”
The teacher rubs her temples and takes a deep breath.
Teacher: “Come on, Johnny, you’re better than this. Let me put it to you differently. If I gave you two apples, and another two apples and another two, how many would you have?”
Johnny: “Six.”
Teacher: “Good. Now, if I gave you two cats, and another two cats and then another two, how many would you have?”
Johnny: “Seven!”
Teacher: “Johnny, where in the heck do you get seven from?!?”
Johnny: “Because I’ve already got a freaking cat!”
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Donny Osmond and Susan Boyle are incredible performers with millions of fans worldwide. They are both icons in their own right, but watching them share a stage together does feel like a dream.
Luckily for us, we got to witness that dream become a reality once again when Donny invited Susan to join him in Glasgow and sing a duet with him. This wasn’t the first time that these two created magic when their voices blended on stage.
Donny has been Susan’s idol since she was a young girl. When she reached for the stars and became a well known name in the world of music, Susan got to perform with her idol in 2013 in Vegas.
“It was my first time in Vegas and it was great fun, especially since I got to perform with Donny Osmond. If someone told me years ago I’d be performing on stage with him, I’d have laughed at them. He’s been my idol since I was 13, so I feel like I’ve grown up with him in a way. It’s all been a bit mind-blowing,” Susan told the Daily Mail.
NEW YORK, NY – DECEMBER 03: Singer Susan Boyle leaves the “Today Show” taping at the NBC Rockefeller Center Studios on December 3, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Ray Tamarra/Getty Images)
Susan’s fans refer to themselves as to the Red Scarf Brigade in honor of her trademark red scarf.
“Some people think they’re a bit mad, but they’re not. They’re very kind to me and they made me a blanket with Donny’s face on which I still have on my bed because it keeps me warm. This time they made a blanket with my face on it and gave it to him,” the singer said.
“I think people relate to me in some way,” she added. “Maybe they think, ‘If she can do it in her late stage in life, maybe I can too.’”
Well, Susan may have an army of fans, but when it comes to Donny Osmond, he and his siblings even caused a movement dubbed Osmondmania.
This term was written all over newspapers following an incident during which 18 girls were slightly injured and four were treated for their injuries at the hospital.
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Namely, the day The Osmonds arrived at Heathrow on 21 October 1973 ended up being a serious incident that could’ve had some pretty dire consequences.
When their plane landed, more than 10,000 fans packed the roof garden at the Queen’s Building at Heathrow Airport, but as too many people were let onto the viewing site, a part of the balcony railing and wall collapsed. It was a miracles that the number of injured people was that low.
“The worst problem was hysteria,” a helper at the Queen’s Building medical center, where first aid was provided, said at the time. “It was difficult at first to distinguish between girls who had been hurt and girls who were screaming and weeping from fright or from disappointment at missing a sight of the group.”
Donny Osmond, The Osmonds, portrait, London, 1973. (Photo by Michael Putland/Getty Images)
Donny and his siblings weren’t even aware of what had happened util they arrived at the hotel.
“It was pretty cool, the screaming and the adulation, but I remember a moment right after the Heathrow experience where the balcony collapsed and we were banned from the airports,” Donny Osmond remembered in an interview with the Standard.
“I was in the hotel room with my brother Alan and we turn the television on that night and there was this programme with three people on – the presenter, a person from Scotland Yard and a child psychiatrist and they were debating whether or not Donny Osmond should be deported from England because of what he’s doing to all of our young kids. My brother turned to me and said, ‘You remember this moment because this never happens’. It was such a cool moment.”
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Donny once recalled another incident involving a group of fans. Namely, he and his siblings were chased after by some girls into an underground car park of the hotel and the security had to use a firehose to keep them out.
“I had the time of my life!” Donny recalled. “Hundreds and hundreds of fans were able to get into the parking structure, and [because] I had long hair at the time, they were just surrounding us. Our security guard, he saw me, and because of my long hair, he thought I was one of the fans so he threw me back into the fans and realised what he had done, but he couldn’t get to me because of all the fans. So I got on the floor, and I was sneaking to the entrance of the hotel, and one of the other security guards thought I was a fan and grabbed me and threw me back into the fans. It was awesome!”
Recently, Donny performed in Glasgow. To the delight of the crowd, he asked a familiar name to join him on stage, Susan Boyle.
The two performed a version of This Is the Moment, which they recorded together in 2012.
A video of their performance, shared by Catherine Chisholm, shows Donny holding Susan’s hand, smiling, before giving her a big hug. He then thanks her and lands a kiss on her forehead.
“That was a treat – thank you, Susan. I love that woman,” he could be heard saying.
Donny himself posted a photo of him and Susan with the caption, “In Glasgow, Scotland and low and behold, guess who showed up to my concert? My dear friend, Susan Boyle! She was waiting in one of the dressing rooms backstage to go out to the audience and I heard this angel voice in the hallway. I walked up to the door and…”
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Those nine months a mom carries her baby are filled with joy, anticipation, and a dose of uncertainty. What the new parents hope for is their bundle of joy to be healthy. Sadly, that is not always the case.
Jennie Wilklow, from Highland, New York, couldn’t wait to meet her daughter. She and her husband were over the moon to hold her in their arms. All the ultrasounds and doctor’s appointment suggested the baby was healthy, so they were eased and never thought sweet Anna would be born with a condition that would change all of their lives forever.
Jennie delivered Anna via C-section at 34 weeks. Doctors told her she looked beautiful and that was all Jennie needed to hear at that point.
Shortly after, the proud mom heard her daughter cry, and that was just another sign that everything was right with her little jewel.
When her husband visited Jennie, he was strangely silent and looked worried and puzzled.
“My husband’s silence scared me; he just sat in shock as the doctor left, and I prodded for more info,” Jennie shared with Cafe Mom.
“He just kept saying, ‘It’s bad.’ What does that even mean? I thought in my head. He told me, ‘Jennie, I looked in her eyes, and she has the most beautiful soul.’”
Anna was diagnosed with harlequin ichthyosis, a rare condition that causes thick diamond-shaped plates that are separated by deep cracks. “As they tried frantically to help her, her skin hardened within seconds (of birth). After hardening, it began to split, causing open wounds all over her body,” Jennie told Cafe Mom.
Although doctors weren’t sure she would survive, Anna beat the odds and is thriving. “She was beauty in the purest form,” her mom said.
There isn’t cure, and the treatment is quite demanding as it requires constant baths and keeping the skin as much moisturized as possible. “Every couple of hours I covered her with Vaseline and bathed her for many hours of the day. I had dreamed for years about the things my baby would wear, and though it seemed so trivial, it was what I struggled with most,” Jennie said.
In an attempt to raise awareness about this condition, Jennie posts photos of Anna on her Instagram page harlequindiva. She opens up about the everyday struggles and what it is like to have a child with harlequin ichthyosis.
“Anna captured everyone’s hearts because she is the purest form of perfection. Doing the work every day is simple when I’m doing it for her, and with every new accomplishment, the world celebrates with me,” Jennie told Cafe Mom.
She adds, “I now understand that I was given her because of the love I already carried in my heart for my daughter. Anna was meant for me, and I for her, and together we will show the world what true beauty is.”
For most of us, Christmas is the most beautiful time of the year. The holiday is a reminder of the love we need to share with those around us, especially our family and friends.
Sadly, in the case of one family, the Christmas celebration became a reason for a feud which ended with a mother giving her daughter an ultimatum and possibly uninviting her from the party she was hosting.
The mother shared her story on Reddit and asked fellow users if she was in the right or not.
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Namely, she explained that there is a huge age gap between her children. She had her daughter, who’s 25, with her ex-husband who was her high-school sweetheart. She later remarried and welcomed two children, who are now 7 and 9 years of age.
Her eldest daughter has a son on her own, which makes the OP a grandmother, too.
As the holiday is approaching, she invited her daughter and her grandson to a Christmas party she will be hosting. However, there was something that eventually caused a trouble.
The woman explained that her grandson doesn’t believe Santa Clause truly exists and his mom is okay with that. However, the woman’s young children do believe in Santa Claus, so now OP is worried that her grandson could ruin the magic for her children if he mentions something about Santa Clause during the evening of the party.
“I asked my daughter if she’d please talk to her son, because I wouldn’t like the magic ruined for them. I still put packages under the tree with “from Santa” on them, and leave out cookies and reindeer treats (bird seeds.) My daughter told us she wouldn’t make her son lie, and my children are old enough to understand if her son decides to say something,” the woman posted.
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When the daughter said she wouldn’t force her son to lie, the woman got mad and said that if that’s the case, then her daughter and her grandson should be spending Christmas all by themselves in their own apartment.
The daughter was devastated by her mother’s response and accused her of choosing her younger children’s happiness over hers, and that she was being completely unreasonable.
Living in the country can feel like blast for some. Others, however, don’t feel like that sort of place fits them, but there is simply nothing they can do to change that, just like the little boy from this hilarious story.
Where this little boy lived, they had to use an outskirt which he hated. During summers it was too hot, during winters it was extremely cold, and on top of that it always smelled bad.
The outhouse was sitting on the bank of a creek and the boy was determined to push that outhouse into the creek one day.
One time, while it was raining during a spring day, the creek was swollen so the little boy decided it was the day to push the outhouse into the creek. So he got a large stick and started pushing.
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Finally, the outhouse toppled into the creek and floated away.
That night his dad told him they were going to the woodshed after supper. Knowing that meant a spanking, the little boy asked why.
The dad replied, “Someone pushed the outhouse into the creek today. It was you, wasn’t it, son?”
The boy answered yes.
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Then he thought a moment and said, “Dad, I read in school today that George Washington chopped down a cherry tree and didn’t get into trouble because he told the truth.”
The dad replied, “Well, son, George Washington’s father wasn’t in that cherry tree.”
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The AITA Reddit forum uncovers plenty of real-life stories that attract the attention of a huge number of people who share their opinions and judge the original poster’s action as right or wrong.
A woman took to this forum to share a story involving her sister, which didn’t end up the way she expected to.
Namely, the OP’s sister moved closer, which OP saw as a way of having more opportunities for the two to bond and spend quality time together.
One day, the sister called the woman and invited her and her husband to a fancy restaurant.
The woman had second thoughts about the choice of place because she was aware it was very pricey. The sister, however, insisted they go exactly there.
Eventually, the woman and her husband agreed to go to the fancy restaurant with her sister and her sister’s boyfriend.
They had a nice time together and ordered what they felt like eating besides the high prices.
When the time came for the bill to be paid, the woman asked for two separate checks. But at that moment, the sister said she needed to use the restroom and her boyfriend followed her.
Some time passed by and neither the sister nor her boyfriend returned. The woman called her sister but she didn’t respond. It was clear they left the place in an attempt to avoid paying their part of the bill.
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The woman payed her and her husband’s check only and texted her sister that in case she didn’t return, she would need to face legal action. Still, no response.
The following day, the sister called OP and instead of providing an apology for her childish behavior, she asked from OP to pay the entire bill, but OP refused and said she never agreed on such a thing.
Although she was the one to be blamed for what she did, the sister made her entire family put pressure on OP about covering the entire bill, but OP took a stand that she wouldn’t do such a thing no matter what.
As expected, fellow Redditors stood on the woman’s side telling her she was NTA.
It is a common knowledge that if not agreed differently, the bill should be split.
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A marriage should be based on mutual respect and understanding, but not every person who’s involved in such a union respects these unwritten rules.
The truth is that there are plenty of cases of people ending their marriage because of infidelity, and the following story is an example of what the cheaters are willing to do in order to get away with their acts.
A woman named Jane started her story explaining that she and her friends were going to have lunch together at a restaurant. Her husband was on a business trip and wasn’t going to return home until later that night.
As she sat at the table and ordered her grilled calamari and garlic bread, she started looking around wondering if every lawyer tries to spot any of their clients like she did. At that particular moment, her heart stopped.
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Among the people at the restaurant was her husband Tom. He was on his phone and was smiling in a way she hasn’t seen him smile in years. But who was he chatting with if not her?
“And what was up with that smile? The last time I saw that smile was when he surprised me with a weekend away for our anniversary about five years ago,” the woman wrote.
She started over-thinking and didn’t know what to expect. “I sat there, listening to my colleagues order their drinks while envisioning catching Tom red-handed with another woman who was bound to stroll in to meet him,” she wrote.
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Tom’s entire focus was on his phone. As she sipped her wine and waited to see if her husband would meet with another woman, she spotted a man entering the place and taking a seat next to Tom. The man had an envelope in his hand which he handed in to Tom.
Jane sat at another table, a bit closer to that of Tom and tried to cover her face with the menu as she struggled to see what was in the envelope. Although she couldn’t see very clear, she did notice Tom holding photos of her. On one of them, she recognized herself in a green coat she sometimes wore. But why would her husband be given photos of her by another man.
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It was then that things started to make sense.
The man with the envelope was a private investigator who was trying to frame her an affair with someone. The reason why was that Tom was likely having an affair himself, but their prenup said that if one of them is caught cheating, the marriage ends and the other person is entitled to all their shared belongings.
“I was beside myself with rage and betrayal. But I wanted to let him play out his little game. Tom filed for divorce a week or so after that unfortunate lunch. I was sure he felt triumphant, thinking he had all the evidence he needed to get the big payout,” Jane explained in her post.
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Tom was totally unaware that the courtroom would turn into a stage for a showdown between them both.
“He presented his carefully crafted narrative, running his hands through his hair the entire time. It was an annoying habit of his, but he thought it made him charming. I sat quietly, waiting for his performance to be over.
“Then, it was my time.
“I presented all my counter-evidence with confidence. The courtroom was my playground; I had no reason to be anything less than bold.
“Tom’s plan had backfired spectacularly, and I knew Karma had taken over.”
Jane walked out of the courtroom with her head held high knowing she was now free and got exactly what she wished for.
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Although she was now alone, she was stronger, wiser, and free from a very toxic marriage that was based on lies.
“And this was just a lunch date with work colleagues. And you know? I didn’t even get my calamari and garlic bread,” she ended her post and asked social media users if they would do the same thing if they were her.
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CAP D'ANTIBES, FRANCE - MAY 17: Pierce Brosnan and Keely Shaye Smith arrive at the amfAR Gala Cannes 2018 at Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc on May 17, 2018 in Cap d'Antibes, France.
Best known for portraying agent 007, actor Pierce Brosnan has been considered a true Hollywood heartthrob. Landing the ultimate macho role of James Bond marked his professional life and cemented his career in the world of film.
During his early life, he was abandoned by his father, and his mother was forced to leave him with his grandparents in Ireland while she looked for a job that could help her support him in London.
Speaking of the time his spent with his grandma and grandpa as a young child, Brosnan recalled, “There were two lodgers — workingmen, one in the factory and one in the sawmill.
“I had a metal bed with a curtain around it…. That was my room and my haven and my space,” he shared with Esquire.
Even then, he loved watching films, mostly American Westerns, and dreamed of becoming an actor.
To the delight of all of us, his dream came true.
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When he turned 31, Brosnan was reunited with his father.
“I had a Sunday afternoon with him. A story about this and that, had a few pints of Guinness, and we said goodbye,” he recalled. “I would have loved to have known him. He was a good whistler, and he had a good walk…. That’s as much as I know about him.”
When Brosnan went to London to study drama school in 1977, he met Cassandra Harris. At the time, she was still married to husband Dermot Harris, with whom she had two children, Chris and Charlotte.
Brosnan was said to have been smitten by Harris’ charm and beauty. She was five years his senior, but he fell for her instantly and the two married five years later. After the passing of Harris’ first husband, Brosnan officially adopted her two children. The couple went on to have a child on their own, son Sean.
“We just clicked as a family,” the actor once revealed. “To begin with I was Pierce, then I was Daddy Pierce, and then I just became Dad. Charlotte and Chris have just been amazing in my life.”
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When Sean was welcomed into the world, the family seemed complete. But then, in 1987, Harris received the news of the devastating diagnosis. She battled ovarian cancer for four years before passing away.
Brosnan recalled that the night he lost his wife was the longest of his life.
“I was in a helpless state of…confusion and anger. She was comforting me,” he told People as he opened up of the tragic loss he suffered.
“She has made me the man I am, the actor I am, the father I am.
“She’s forever embedded in every fibre of my being. She’s there with me every day. I was so blessed to have met someone like that.”
Years after Harris left this world, Brosnan suffered yet another heartbreak when his adopted daughter Charlotte was diagnosed with the same form of cancer as her mother. She too passed away, leaving behind her two children and a husband. This loss brought back many bitter memories for Brosnan who was grief-stricken.
“Charlotte fought her cancer with grace and humanity, courage and dignity. Our hearts are heavy with the loss of our beautiful dear girl. We pray for her and that the cure for this wretched disease will be close at hand soon,” the actor said in a statement.
Following Cassandra’s passing, Brosnan had a hard time coping with the loss. However, he eventually met someone new, his current wife of over 20 years, Keely Shaye Smith.
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The actor has fallen for Kelly from the moment he laid eyes on her at a Mexican bar in 1992. They started dating two years later and tied the knot after seven years. He knew something was different about her. In an interview with The Independent, the former James Bond star revealed why he was drawn to Keely in the first place.
“I love her vitality, her passion. She has this strength that I wouldn’t be able to live without. When Keely looks at me, I go weak.”
It did not take long before the two fell in love. Speaking with People in 2001, she explained that she found Pierce Brosnan “captivating.”
“[He was] “tall, dark, and handsome — everything that everybody would immediately be attracted to. He had this mischievous sparkle in his eyes. I thought, ‘Wow! Wow!’” Keely said.
“I understand why women find him sexy, because he is an appealing man. He really likes and appreciates women. … He’s intelligent, captivating and his real beauty emanates from the soul. And, like a fine wine, he’s aging beautifully.”
Brosnan had previously admitted that meeting Kelly “saved” him at a time when he was deep into a depression. He would do anything to see her, even when his career took off.
“Wherever I went in the world, I missed her, and I’d send her tickets to come so we could be together. We just seemed to fit,” Brosnan said. “I found a great woman in Keely Shaye. Not if I searched a million times over would I find one as good.”
One of the secrets to their long-lasting marriage is that no matter how busy they are with their careers, they always make time for each other.
“My wife and I took a short road trip up to Santa Barbara – we were going for a romantic weekend and to look at houses and drink great wine. We didn’t listen to any music, but we just listened to the sounds of each other’s voices and sorted out the world.”
Over the years, Keely gained weight and people sometimes fat shame her but her husband always has her back and makes sure everyone knows he loves her the way she is. She is the great love of his life, that’s certain.
“Her friends offered her weight-loss surgery. However, I adore every curve in her physique. She is the most beautiful woman in my eyes. Additionally, she gave birth to our five children,” the actor was reported to have said.
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Maybe Brosnan staying with her comes as a surprise to many simply because Hollywood marriages are not “meant” to last, but theirs is as solid as a rock.
“Keely and I love backgammon,” the Hollywood star told People. “We’re very competitive. I taught her how to play, and now she just trashes me. It’s just so annoying. It really, really, really is.”
In a new interview with Fox, the actor gave his fans a new update on their marriage – and what has been the key all these years. “We like each other a lot. We love each other a lot,” he said. “And we’ve been down the road, and we’ve seen many, many hardships as families do, as we all do.”
“But watching someone grow up with you and grow old with you is a very spiritual journey,” he continued. “To watch each other change … whatever it may be, the hair, the waist. But it’s the love in the heart.”
Brosnan praised his wife for always being by his side and for supporting his career from the moment they met.
“She allows me to go out into the wild blue yonder and do what I do as a man, as an actor, [she] always has,” he added. “Keely is a journalist, a reporter. She’s an artist in her own right. And as a woman, she has made a family for our sons.”
We wish this beautiful couple a lifetime of happiness, love, and laughter. They’re definitely an example of how true love can thrive in Hollywood!
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