Mr. Silva's Top 10 Homework excuses:

1.  "My little brother had a runny nose and we were out of tissues, so I had no choice..."

2. "I accidentally flushed my homework down the toilet."

3. "A Sponge Bob Squarepants marathon was on TV."

4. "My homework was abducted by aliens...on a UFO...to save their planet...honest."

5. "My mother used it to polish the furniture."

6. "The homework was way below my intellectual capacity."

7. "I sold it for $1000 on EBay to a kid that lost his homework."

8. "I finished it, but the homework mysteriously vanished into thin air the next day."

9. "I phoned George Bush and I asked him for help on my homework but he didn't know any of the answers."

10. "I accidentally chewed my homework into spitballs that I spat at you when you were not looking."