A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales.

At one point in the discussion, the teacher remarked that it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow an entire human being because even though the whale was a very large mammal, its throat was very small.

“But the whale swallowed Jonah,” the little girl insisted.

Irritated, the teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human. It was physically impossible, she said.

The little girl said, “When I get to heaven, I will ask Jonah.”

The teacher asked, “What if Jonah went to hell?”

The little girl replied, “Then you ask him.”