Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes

In the school I went to, they asked a kid to prove the law of gravity and he threw the teacher out of the window.

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• In the school I went to, they asked a kid to prove the law of gravity and he threw the teacher out of the window.

  

  Jack Roy
  • School
  • Law
  • Teacher