So back when I was a senior in high school we would have a weekly vocabulary test in our English class. Sometimes students would ask the teacher to explain a word. One week a student in my class asked the teacher to explain the word "despair" (how a kid in high school wouldn't know the meaning of despair is beyond me).
At any rate, my teacher talked about dairy farmers and the then recent problems with a cattle disease (it may have been the first publicized outbreak of mad cow disease) and how because of the dangers of the epidemic the farmers had to throw out an enormous percentage of their yield. Since they could not sell their product, they were, in the words of my English teacher, "In a state of utter despair."
I actually laughed at this and the entire classroom looked at me like I was insane. I said, "No pun intended, right?" The teacher looked completely lost. We went on with the lesson.
About ten minutes later the teacher barks out, "Udder despair!" and laughs so loudly she actually woke up three students.
