Jokes to brighten your day

If anyone calls you a dunce, you can thank them for paying you a compliment. The word dunce comes from the name of a Scotsman, John Duns Scotus, who was a brilliant scholar in medievel times. He taught philosophy at Oxford, Paris an Cologne and said that religious beliefs required faith and could not be proved. The Church did not like what Duns Scotus said. Although he was only trying to show that human reason is limited, his teories were distored after he died. His books were burned and anyone who agreed with Duns Scotus was sneered at and called a Duns!