Nate

"This is a Venus flytrap," said Mr. Byers to the class.  "It catches flies in its jaws and then clamps then tightly until it's finished digesting the fly."

"Oooh, that's gross," said Kai.

"How does it know that it's a fly?" asked Nate.  "Maybe it's somebody's finger.  Then will it eat your finger?"

"I really doubt it," said Mr. Byers.  "So don't try it."

But Nate was curious.  He wanted to try and find out anyway.  So once everybody had returned to the front of the room for the next lesson, Nate jumped up and quickly snuck over to the plant.  He moved his finger up to the Venus flytrap's mouth.  He pushed his finger into it's jaws and CLAMP!

"Mr. Byers!" moaned Nate.  "The Venus flytrap ate my finger, and it won't come out!"

Mr. Byers and the class came rushing up to Nate.  "Nate, I told you not to try it."  When he saw the plant hooked tightly on Nate's finger he gasped.  "Oh, no," he said, "I think I picked up the wrong plant by mistake.  That's not a Venus flytrap.  It's a Venus HUMANtrap!"

Dum dum DUUUUUUMMMMM!

"What do I do?" asked Nate.

"Well, you could just wait for it to finish eating the end of your finger," said Mr. Byers.

"NOOOO! My finger is too young to die!"

Mr. Byers scratched his head.  "The only other thing you can do is try to make it laugh.  I got a joke.  What kind of tree can fit in your hand?  A palm tree!"

The class groaned.  But Nate felt the plant release its grip a bit.  "Wait, Mr. Byers," he said, "if you tell more lame jokes I think you'll just cause the plant to fall asleep off my finger.  Keep going!"

"Alrighty then," said Mr. Byers.  "How do trees get on the internet?  They log in!  What did the big flower say to the little flower?  What's up bud!  Why is a mushroom always invited to parties?  Because he's such a fungi!"

The Venus humantrap slowly lost its grip until it let go of Nate's finger completely and began to snore.  The rest of the class did, too.  But Nate now knew the power of the lame joke!