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 | 11 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.
 | Then What??
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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.
 | Where 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.
 | The 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.
 | Shakespearean 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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