My headmaster
(a severe, forbidding man - name of Fred Pape) asked us what a foreskin was in our RE lesson when I was about 12.

Naturally, I raised my hand, took the floor and proudly, in ringing tones, pronounced it to be "that bit of skin just above your nose."

Now, I was a bright child although genuinely ignorant in this respect. My explanations fell on deaf ears however and I spent a short while basking in the adulation of my classmates, followed by a longer while basking in a series of Friday night detentions as I reflected on my unwitting impudence.
( disasterprone "Pyjamas caused the Holocaust", Wed 24 Mar 2010, 6:02, 6 replies)

Sorry
but I don't believe you. So nurr.
(AndyC4m Eject Eject [><], Wed 24 Mar 2010, 10:26, closed)

Well, thanks Andy.
A valuable contribution. Well done. Although any members of my class of 1992 will be able to verify it. Incidentally, I named the headmaster so any other former pupils could relate to the post.
( disasterprone "Pyjamas caused the Holocaust", Wed 24 Mar 2010, 11:19, closed)

Reminds me of a time in school when we were 12 and memorizing the parts of the reproductive anatomy for sex ed. In math class, the teacher asked (I have NO idea why) what another name for skin was and one of the girls shouted out, "THE EPIDIDYMIS!" We all burst into laughter and she turned bright red and stuttered, "N-no, I meant epidermis. Epidermis!"
(Tarana, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 13:40, closed)

Like the famous lad on Blockbusters
who gave the answer as 'orgasm' instead of 'organism'!

Some things, you just can't live'em down.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 17:16, closed)

And surly being known as "Cock nose" for the rest of you school career
No?
( @><|= w0nu!) or cunt to my friends, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 14:55, closed)

Fortunately not, although I received a lot of mocking
Quite rightly, too.
( disasterprone "Pyjamas caused the Holocaust", Thu 25 Mar 2010, 5:46, closed)