This book is a joke book for social studies teachers to help add a little excitement to your classes and help students to have fun with history. It contains corny geography puns and wonderfully bad history jokes. The final chapter contains notable flubs that students have made in class. This book is guaranteed to keep you and your students rolling in the aisles! It has been used by teachers across the country and even in teacher training courses in universities. I would like to dedicate this book to Ronald Reagan. He was my favorite president and by far one of the best joke tellers to ever hold the office.  Special thanks go to James Dewitt, a former student who first gave me the "Worst Joke Award".  This has prompted countless students to ask me, "Which joke earned the award for you?"  My standard reply has always been, "It wasn't any one joke, but rather a systematic torture of my students throughout the year."  This is born out by the fact that the most frequent comment I get in my course evaluations is "Great class; crummy jokes!"  (Along with comments like "How about if you didn't give any tests?" or "Too bad we can't watch a movie every day.").  Finally, I would like to thank my students for putting up with my horrible puns and corny jokes.  Without their sighs, moans, and blank stares I would have never known which of this material was good and which wasn't.  I hope that these jokes add a little excitement to your classes and help students to have fun with history.  I apologize in advance for any intentional anachronisms, misspellings and material accidentally "borrowed" from other comics.  It was all done in good fun. A sample of the torture in store for your students: Danny: "I like the mammals in Tasmania." Annie: "You devil, you!" Maureen: "Did you get to see much of Virginia?" Doreen: "No, Chesapeake." Ed: "What do you do if your food store flops in India?" Fred: "Open a New Delhi." Teacher: "Sometimes pharaohs died quite young." Student: "Tut, tut, what a shame!" Apollo: "Which ancient battle had the best lunch meat?" Vulcan: "The Battle of Salamis." Teacher: "Can an obscure figure from a small Mediterranean island become the Emperor of all France?" Class: "Of Corsican!" Teacher: "Why did Theodore Roosevelt drop out of politics?" Smart Alec: "Because Teddy could bear no more." Teacher: "What was the British response to the German trenches in WWI? Pupil: "Tanks a lot!" Mitch: "Why does the Dalai Lama go to Las Vegas?" Rich: "He loves Tibet!" Richard Di Giacomo graduated from San Jose State University with a B.A. in Ancient and Medieval history, a B.A. in Social Science and an M.A. in American History. He has been a teacher for over 20 years and has taught in a variety of schools from private and continuation schools to public high schools. He has taught everything from at risk and limited English students to honors and college preparatory classes. The subjects he has taught include U.S. and World History, Government, Economics, Bible and Ethics, History of the Cold War, and Contemporary World History. He has been a reviewer and contributor to textbooks, and a frequent presenter at social studies conferences on the use of simulations, videos, and computers in education. Rich's love for role-playing and strategy games led him to develop his role-playing simulations. He has also written books on renaissance explorers, California Indians, history movies, humor, and ELL instruction. Teachers enjoy his books because they are written by a teacher for other teachers. Students like the activities contained in them because they are interesting, challenging, fun, and very different from traditional instructional methods.