"How she ever associated Herodotus with the idea of eggs is simply incomprehensible.

Well, can you name the hemisphere in which China and Japan are situated ?" "Don't bother me wid yer fun, now.

I can wash the china and the pans as well as anybody, and that's enough, now, isn't it ?" "Dumb! awful dumb! Don't know the country from the crockery.

I'll try her once more.

Name the limits of the Tropic of Capricorn, and tell me where Asia Minor is located." "I have a brother that's one, sor; that's all I know about it." "One?
One what ?" "Didn't ye ask me afther the miners, sor?
My brother Teddy works wid 'em." "And this," said the judge, "is the kind of person to whom we are asked to entrust the education of youth.