[fade back to plato telling the story] Plato:Naw man that was a totallyaccurate, totally awesome, and TOTALLY historic account. .
[students look skeptical]
Pupil: Dodgeball? I don’t know man, if there was Atlantis, what happened to all of these Atlanteans? How come they aren’t even here any more?
Plato: OHHH… umm. Well…
[cut to scene of players spiking the ball, hitting the tower, the whole island crumbling into the ocean]
[back to Plato and group]
Pupil: I don’t know man that sounds a lot like your ‘people under the earth’ soccer story.
2nd Pupil: Which sounds a lot like your Martian football story.
Pupil: which sounds a lot like all your other ‘historically accurate’ accounts.
Plato: See man, that’s just it. It’s like I’m always saying, those who do not learn from the past are doomed to…. (pause)… they’re just doomed man.
[Pupils start snapping their fingers or show some other gesture of hippie approval]
Narrator:
[insert final joke here that implies that Plato didn’t actually tell the dodgeball story, or that this was true.