An English professor was reading “The Canterbury Tales” to his class and noticed that one of his students had fallen asleep.

The professor was annoyed enough to send the book spinning through the air and bounce it off the sleeper’s skull.

Startled awake, the student asked what had hit him.

“That,” said the professor, “was a flying Chaucer.”

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Send your groaners to Maureen Dolan, mdolan@cdapress.com. Keep ’em clean, and don’t be mean.