A second-grade teacher is going over some vocabulary and asks if any student can use the word beautiful twice in the same sentence.

Suzie raises her hand and says, “Julie bought herself a beautiful dress, and she looked beautiful in it.”

“Good job. How about you, Joe?”

“That’s easy,” he says. “Last night my sister told my father she was pregnant. He said, ‘Beautiful?fucking beautiful.’”

A.T. Bailey
Baltimore, MD