First my apologies to any who did not understand my previous poor attempt at humour, perhaps lost in translation concerning Zora the chess playing dog.
My son Philippe teaches young school children and finds that on Monday mornings it is sometimes difficult to perk up their interest. So having an odd sense of humour, I don’t know where it comes from, one Monday morning he asked the class “who has a pet animal at home”. Answer, we have a dog, a cat, a fish etc.
Next he asked what trick can your pet do, “my dog can roll over, mine will give you his paw, my goldfish swims around in a circle and my cat ignores everyone.”
Then he popped up the picture of his dog on the projector and announced “my dog plays chess”.
And immediately had the children’s attention.
He did not mention to them that he had temporarily wrapped Zora’s chess piece in a slice of ham before being able to get the picture.
