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[marval]

A teacher said to her class one day, 'Okay children, today I am going to teach you a new word and when I tell you what it means, you can all write a story using the new word. Do you all understand?'

Class: 'Yes, Miss.'

'Okay, the new word is "frugal". Frugal means "to save". Someone who is good at saving we call "frugal".

Now I shall give you ten minutes to use the word "frugal" in a story. Off you go.'

Ten minutes later. 'Now children, pencils down. Is there anyone who would like to read their story to the class? Oh, Mary, you would. Now everyone be quiet and listen to Mary's story.'

Mary: 'One day the wicked dragon from a far off land captured the princess and locked her in a tall tower. The next day she looked out of the window and saw her favourite knight riding by.

She lent out as far as she could and called out, "help, help, frugal me, frugal me!"'

[starone]

he-he. Lovely. Gave me a really good chuckle.

[Quizmonkey]

Totally flawed (from the line 'Frugal means 'to save'). The whole joke relies on that mistaken line - frugal's an adjective; to save is a verb.

[missprim]

Oh for God's sake quizmonkey why can't you just accept it instead of analising it?
Made me laugh marvel :-)

[albaqwerty]

saving is the verb. A verb is a 'doing' word :)

Anyhoo, I loved the joke.