Great line

In Composition I, my sophomores are writing persuasive essays. I've warned them about the trite and true classic topics - lowering the drinking age and legalizing pot. Likewise I've warned them about faulty reasoning -- "If you can die for your country, you should be able to drink a beer" or "If the drinking age was lowered to 18, cops wouldn't have to spend so much time arresting kids for underage drinking, for they could focuse their efforts on stopping real criminals." One of my first hour students began his rough draft with a clever twist on the old cliche of "guns don't kill people, people kill people" -- "If guns kill people, then my pencil makes me spell poorly." Ha. That's pretty good.