Teaching Parable


'What is this?'
'A book.'
'What kind of book?'
'An English book.'

'Okay... What colour is the wall?'
'Yellow?'
'No; it's 'prairie gold'.'
'What's a prairie?'
'It's a field of crops in America. What crops?'
'Sweetcorn.'
'Okay. Next time I ask you something, I want 'prairie gold' not 'yellow'.'

'What is this?'
(in unison) 'A diary.'

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Matt: 'So is the Worker's Council the kind of thing Angela Merkel promised to abolish to modernise the country if she was elected?'
Hans: 'That would be suicide.'