Sometimes a random comment enters the brain, and the mind suddenly becomes a playground, with thoughts dashing about like a 5-year-old racing from the swings to the slides to the sandbox and back again.
This recently happened to me after a friend mentioned the current popularity of memes about Ancient Rome. Several of these were amusing. My favorite was of a schoolboy seated in a classroom with the visage of Julius Caesar plastered over his face. The first panel shows the boy studying a notebook; in the second, hidden behind the notebook, we find a map of ancient Gaul and Britain. The caption reads, “When the teacher thinks you’re studying but you’re actually planning to invade Britain.” Here the male students in the history classes I once taught popped to mind.
