A group of children had all been photographed for school pictures, and their teacher was trying to persuade them each to buy a copy of the group picture.
The teacher went on and on, "Just think how nice it will be to look at this picture when you are all grown up and say, 'There's Jennifer; she's a lawyer,now' or 'That's Michael, he's a doctor.' There's Billy, he went to jail."
To which Billy spoke up from the back of the room, "And there's our teacher; she's dead."
Bill Belew on Business in Asia
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