Just in from Yakutsk

I know I link the Onion every week, but every week there's something so damn funny in there, I can't help myself. This week, it's the following headline:

RISK CHAMP FLUNKS GEOMETRY TEST

ALBANY, NY—Alfred Wu, the 13-year-old winner of the 2004 East Coast Risk Championship, flunked his 8th-grade world-geography test, social-studies teacher Jane Laurent reported Monday. "His test paper was filled with names like Kamchatka and Yakutsk, and the Ukraine spread over half of Europe," Laurent said. "And, by his account, the U.S. is made up of only three states: Eastern United States, Western United States, and Alaska." Last week, Wu received an "F" on a paper he wrote about Napoleonic military Stratego.

An obvious joke, perhaps, but it works for me.