At a British university, students in the psychology programme were attending their first class on emotional extremes.

“Just to establish some parameters,” said the professor to the student from Chester, “what is the opposite of joy?”

“Sadness,” said the student.

“And the opposite of depression?” he asked of the young lady from Birmingham.

“Elation,” she said.

“And you sir,” he said to the young man from Dublin, “what about the opposite of woe?”

The Irishman replied, “Sir, I believe that would be ‘giddy up’ .”