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bullet11 year old's science exam answers (supposedly true!):

When you breath, you inspire.   When you do not breath, you expire.
H2O is hot water, and CO2 is cold water
To collect fumes of sulphur, hold a deacon over a flame in a test tube
When you smell an odorless gas, it is probably carbon monoxide
Nitrogen is not found in Ireland because it is not found in a free state
Water is composed of two gins, Oxygin and Hydrogin. Oxygin is pure gin. Hydrogin is gin and water.
Three kinds of blood vessels are arteries, vanes and caterpillars.
Blood flows down one leg and up the other.
Respiration is composed of two acts, first inspiration, and then expectoration.
The moon is a planet just like the earth, only it is even deader.
Artifical insemination is when the farmer does it to the cow instead of the bull.
Dew is formed on leaves when the sun shines down on them and makes them perspire.
A super-saturated solution is one that holds more than it can hold.
Mushrooms always grow in damp places and so they look like umbrellas.
The body consists of three parts- the brainium, the borax and the abominable cavity. The brainium contains the brain, the borax contains the heart and lungs, and the abominable cavity contains the bowels, of which there are five - a, e, i, o, and u.
The pistol of a flower is its only protection against insects.
The alimentary canal is located in the northern part of Indiana.
The skeleton is what is left after the insides have been taken out and the outsides have been taken off.
The purpose of the skeleton is something to hitch meat to.
A permanent set of teeth consists of eight canines, eight cuspids, two molars, and eight cuspidors.
The tides are a fight between the Earth and moon. All water tends towards the moon, because there is no water in the moon, and nature abhors a vacuum. I forget where the sun joins in this fight.
A fossil is an extinct animal. The older it is, the more extinct it is.
Many women believe that an alcoholic binge will have no ill effects on the unborn fetus, but that is a large misconception.
Equator: A managerie lion running around the Earth through Africa.
Germinate: To become a naturalized German.
Liter: A nest of young puppies.
Magnet: Something you find crawling all over a dead cat.
Momentum: What you give a person when they are going away.
Planet: A body of Earth surrounded by sky.
Rhubarb: A kind of celery gone bloodshot.
Vacuum: A large, empty space where the pope lives.
Before giving a blood transfusion, find out if the blood is affirmative or negative.
To remove dust from the eye, pull  the eye down over the nose.
For a nosebleed: Put the nose much lower than the body until the heart stops.
For drowning: Climb on top of the person and move up and down to make artifical perspiration.
For fainting: Rub the person's  chest or, if a lady, rub her arm above the hand instead. Or put the head between the knees of the nearest medical doctor.
For dog bite: put the dog away for several days. If he has not recovered, then kill it.
For asphyxiation: Apply artificial respiration until the patient is dead.
To prevent contraception: wear a condominium.
For head cold: use an agonizer to spray the nose until it drops in your throat.
To keep milk from turning sour:  Keep it in the cow.

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Then What??

The American investment banker was at the pier of a small   coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellow fin tuna. The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them.

The Mexican replied, only a little while.  The American then asked why didn't he stay out longer and catch more fish?

The Mexican said he had enough to support his family's immediate needs.  The American then asked, "but what do you do with the rest of your time?"

The Mexican fisherman said, "I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take siesta with my wife, Maria, stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine and play guitar with my amigos, I have a full and busy life."

The American scoffed, "I am a Harvard MBA and could help you. You should spend more time fishing and with the proceeds, buy a bigger boat with the proceeds from the bigger boat you could buy several boats, eventually you would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your catch to a middleman you would sell directly to the processor, eventually opening your own cannery. You would control the product, processing and distribution. You would need to leave this small coastal fishing village and move to Mexico City, then LA and eventually NYC where you will run your expanding enterprise."

The Mexican fisherman asked, "But, how long will this all take?"  To which the American replied, "15-20 years."

"But what then?"  The American laughed and said that's the best part. "When  the time is right you would announce an IPO and sell your company stock to the public and become very rich, you would make millions."

"Millions.. Then what?"

The American said, "Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take siesta with your wife, stroll to the village in the evenings where you could sip wine and play your guitar with your amigos."

The English Language...it's so simple!!! - (hints on pronunciation)

I take it you already know of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble, but not you, on hiccough, thorough, laugh and through.
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps, to learn of less familiar traps?
Beware of heard, a dreadful word, that looks like beard and sounds like bird.
And dead -- it's said like bed not bead --and for goodness' sake don't call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat (They rhyme with suite and straight and debt)
A moth is not the moth in mother, nor both in bother, broth in brother.
And here is not a match for there, nor dear and fear for bear and pear.
And then there's dose and rose and lose -- just look them up -- and goose and choose,
And cork and work and card and ward, and font and front and word and sword,
And do and go and thwart and cart -- come, come I've hardly made a start.
A dreadful language? Man alive. I'd mastered it when I was five.

bulletWhere would Edison or Einstein be in a modern public School system?

Edison was classically hyperactive which he never outgrew. He had activity and sleep disturbances which lasted through adulthood. He never slept more than 4 hours at a stretch and catnapped throughout the day. Additionally, he was deaf in one ear. One does not have to be a diagnostic genius to see that he would have been quickly judged *special needs.* He would have been put on ritalin *for his own good* and placed if in the typical school dsitrict in a classroom with all the district's special needs kids jumbled together. A kindly teacher would have tried to give him basic skills but not expected too much. This level of expectation would have been passed on to his mother who would have been counseled not to waste too much time on him. At adolesence he would have been sent to technical school since he *was good with his hands.* He would get certified as a garage mechanic and encouraged to take is meds every day...

In real life his mother homeschooled him and encouraged him to excel and use his high energy level and perseverence --- productively. The rest is history.

Einstein was a bright classic dyslexic. He had poor handwriting and problems with computational math (back in the days before computers), and other signs of visual LD. When his brain was dissected after his death <we hope! joke it was found he had an area of injury in the left temporal lobe. Perhaps a birth injury or childhood accident. He would have never been encouraged to follow his interest in physics, a high math profession. His family probably would have been counseled to bring him into a family business where he could compensate for his tragic problems.

In real life he muddled his way through computational math and went into Theoretical Physics which uses math analogously. Pushed into a job as a patent clerk as he was a Jew, he pursued publishing in physics and won the Nobel prize. The rest is history.

bulletThe Funniest Language (author unknown)

We'll begin with box, the plural is boxes;
But the pural of ox should be oxen, not oxes;
One fowl is one goose, but two are called geese
But the plural of mouse should never be meese;
You may find a lone mouse or a whole nest of mice

But the plural of house is houses, not hice;
If the plural of man is always called men,
Why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?
The cows in the plural may be called cows or kine;
But a bow, if repeated, is never called bine.
And if the plural of vow is vows, never vine.

If I speak of a foot you show me two feet
And I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?
If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth
Why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?
If the singular's this and the plural is these
Should the plural of kiss be ever written keese?

And the only one may be that, and the two may be those
Yet hat in the plural would never be hose.
And the plural of cat is cats and not cose.
We speak of brother and also of brethren
but the way we say mother, we never say methren.

Then the masculine prononouns are his, he and him,
But imagine the feminine she shis and shim!
So the English, I think you will agree
Is the funniest language you ever did see.

bulletShakespearean Insult Kit

To construct a Shakespearean insult, combine one word from each of the three columns below, and preface it with "Thou":

Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
artless base-court apple-john
bawdy bat-fouling baggage
beslubbering beefwitted barnacle
bootless beetle-headed bladder
churlish boil-brained boar-pig
cockered clapper-clawed bugbear
clouted clay-brained bum-bailey
craven common-kissing canker-blossom
currish crook-pated clack-dish
dankish. dismal-dreaming clotpole
dissembling dizzy-eyed coxcomb
droning doghearted codpiece
errant dread-bolted death-token
fobbing elf-skinned flap-dragon
froward fat-kidneyed flax-wench
frothy fen-sucked flirt-gill
gleeking flap-mouthed foot-licker
goatish fly-bitten fustilarian
impertinent fool-born gudgeon
infectious full-gorged haggard
jarring guts-griping harpy
loggerheaded half-faced hedge-pig
lumpish hasty-witted hornbeast
mammering hedge-born hugger-mugger
mangled hell-hated joithead
paunchy ill-breeding lout
pibbling ill-nurtured maggot-pie
puking knotty-pated malt-worm
puny mil-livered mammet
qualing motley-minded measle
reeky plum-plucked miscreant
rank onion-eyed minnow
roguish pottle-deep moldwarp
ruttish pox-marked mumble-news
saucy reeling-ripe nut-hook
spleeny rough-hewn pigeon-egg
spongy rude-growing pignut
surly rump-fed puttock
tottering shard-borne pumpion
unumzzled sheep-biting ratsbane
vain spur-galled scut
venomed swag-bellied skainsmate
villainous tardy-gaited strumpet
warped tickle-brained varlet
wayward toad-spotted vassal
weedy urchin-snouted whey-face
yeasty weather-bitten wagtail

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