Biddle and Payne, two elderly English professors, were having lunch in the cafeteria.

During the course of the conversation, Biddle said,

“A student gave me a peculiar answer in class today. I asked who wrote the Merchant of Venice and a sophomore said, “Please, sir, it wasn’t me!”

“Ha, ha!” laughed Payne. “And I suppose the little snot had done it all along!”