one of the best parts of my job: reading funny things that kids write.  i bet this is even funnier if you teach elementary school, but i have to work with what i've got and 12th graders still say funny things on occasion.  last week a kid wrote this on his test for my class: "it was nigh-impossible to pass laws or change the articles [of confederation]."  NIGH-impossible!  we are in ye olde times!  (now, the statement is true - it was almost impossible to do these things, but oh how this kid has entertained me by phrasing it like this...)