I've always enjoyed the student bloopers¹ from Richard Lederer² where one of them takes a similar literal minded attitude and declares: "The sun never set on t

I've always enjoyed the student bloopers¹ from Richard Lederer² where one of them takes a similar literal minded attitude and declares: "The sun never set on the British Empire because the British Empire is in the East and the sun sets in the West" They've been doing the rounds for a loooong time; I think I read these the first time before the web was a thing! ¹ https://www.cs.cornell.edu/info/people/fcc/humor/history.html https://www.cs.cornell.edu/info/people/fcc/humor/history.htm... ² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lederer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lederer