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Question: What do you call a messy hippo?
Answer: A hippopota-mess.
Nihal Prakash, Class VII, La Martiniere for Boys School, Calcutta
Film director: When the villain shoots you, you will have to jump from the helicopter.
Actor: But ...but I can’t do that! I’ll die if I do!
Director: Don’t worry about that. That will be the last scene to be filmed.
Dibyendu Pusti, Class VIII, KTPP High School, Mecheda, Midnapore East
Question: What do you call a driver who doesn’t know how to drive?
Answer: A screwdriver.
Debanjan Sarkar, Class VIII, D.A.V. Public School, Bankura
Teacher: When I ask you a question, you must answer at once. Now, tell me how much is 6 plus 4?
Class: At once!
Avik Mallick, Class VI, South Point High School, Calcutta
Beggar: I haven’t tasted food for a long time.
Passerby: Don’t worry. It still tastes the same.
Raktotpal Gogoi, Class VII, Delhi Public School, Nazira
Bobby: What are you doing, Toby?
Toby: Writing a letter to my brother.
Bobby: Don’t lie. Everyone knows you can’t write.
Toby: That’s right. But my brother can’t read either.
Soham Chatterjee, Class VI, St Xavier’s School, Durgapur
Teacher: How do you spell ‘dog’? Rima: D--I
Teacher: Stop, stop! A dog does not have an I.
Rima: How do they see?
Shaheena Parveen, Class III, St Thomas’ High School, Calcutta
Question: Why do sharks swim in salt water? Answer: Because pepper would make them sneeze!
Afsa Shaikh, Class VII, Mahadevi Birla Girls Higher Secondary School,
Calcutta
Question: What keeps our teeth together?
Answer: Tooth-paste.
Partha Doshi, Class VIII, St Lawrence High School, Calcutta
Nikhil: What do you do when you go home?
Debojeet: I play cricket with my mother.
Nikhil: Does your mother bat or bowl?
Debojeet: She bats. Her hands are the bats and I am the ball.
Shinjini Mukherjee, Class IV, St Thomas Girls School, Calcutta
Raj: Oh my gosh, Arkodeep! I heard you were dead.
Arkodeep: No, it was someone else. I knew it wasn’t me the first time I heard it.
Ayushman Datta, Class VII, Don Bosco School, Park Circus, Calcutta
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