Dad, I'm cold. “Go stand in the corner, I hear it's 90 degrees.”

Behind the Groan

Two Kinds of Degrees Meet in One Corner

The child uses cold to mean temperature, while Dad answers with the ninety-degree angle formed by a square room corner. Both ideas use degrees, but only one would make anyone warmer. Give the complaint a sincere reading, then deliver Dad's advice like a practical solution. A small pause before “90 degrees” lets listeners picture the corner before the geometry appears. The joke fits a math class or a cold morning, though the corner remains better for angles than heating.