The Humor of Youth Go ahead. Make us laugh. Share an embarrassing story from your youth in the opinion box below.
Young people are a prime source of embarrassing statements and bone-headed bloopers.
Now it seems that their teachers are sharing all this on the Net. History teacher and author Richard Lederer strung together a loose history of the world based on unusual statements in student essays. Magna Carta provided that no free man should be hanged twice for the same offense. Martin Luther was nailed to the church door at Wittenberg. Lincoln's mother died in infancy, and he was born in a log cabin which he built with his own hands.