One of the exams we never took too seriously at school was general studies. No-one really saw the point of it and it was treated frivolously, the idea being to come up with the funniest wrong answers you could think of. For that reason, I take compilations of ‘the things children say’ with a pinch of salt, but they can still be amusing. I was reading excerpts from Could Do Better by Norman McGreevy, described as a ‘roaringly funny book’ by the Daily Mail, although the paper is not known [...]
























