A Class Clown Says Goodbye to David Letterman | John K. Herr - Huffington Post

I got my biggest laugh as a class clown in 8th grade. The year was 1980. Mrs. Appleby was a cartoonist's drawing of a schoolteacher: silver hair in a bun, chained bifocals, a perpetual pucker. Each morning she would ask us for an example of "earth ...