Post by michihunter on Jul 2, 2006 21:15:02 GMT -5
The Humor of Youth
Young people are a prime source of embarrassing statements and
bone-headed bloopers. Now it seems that their teachers are sharing all this on
the Net.
History teacher and author Richard Lederer strung together a loose
history of the world based on unusual statements in student essays. For
example:
Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock.
Magna Carta provided that no free man should be hanged twice for the
same offense.
Martin Luther was nailed to the church door at Wittenberg.
Lincoln's mother died in infancy, and he was born in a log cabin which
he built with his own hands.
Net humorist Tina Mancuso collects and shares strange statements in
fifth and sixth grade science papers:
Question: What is one horsepower? Answer: One horsepower is the amount
of energy it takes to drag a horse 500 feet in one second.
We say the cause of perfume disappearing is evaporation. Evaporation
gets blamed for a lot of things people forget to put the top on.
To most people solutions mean finding the answers. But to chemists
solutions are things that are still all mixed up.
You can listen to thunder after lightening and tell how close you came
to getting hit. If you don't hear it you got hit, so never mind.
Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun. But I have
never been able to make out the numbers.
In looking at a drop of water under a microscope, we find there are
twice as many H's as O's.
Clouds are high flying fogs.
Young people are a prime source of embarrassing statements and
bone-headed bloopers. Now it seems that their teachers are sharing all this on
the Net.
History teacher and author Richard Lederer strung together a loose
history of the world based on unusual statements in student essays. For
example:
Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock.
Magna Carta provided that no free man should be hanged twice for the
same offense.
Martin Luther was nailed to the church door at Wittenberg.
Lincoln's mother died in infancy, and he was born in a log cabin which
he built with his own hands.
Net humorist Tina Mancuso collects and shares strange statements in
fifth and sixth grade science papers:
Question: What is one horsepower? Answer: One horsepower is the amount
of energy it takes to drag a horse 500 feet in one second.
We say the cause of perfume disappearing is evaporation. Evaporation
gets blamed for a lot of things people forget to put the top on.
To most people solutions mean finding the answers. But to chemists
solutions are things that are still all mixed up.
You can listen to thunder after lightening and tell how close you came
to getting hit. If you don't hear it you got hit, so never mind.
Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun. But I have
never been able to make out the numbers.
In looking at a drop of water under a microscope, we find there are
twice as many H's as O's.
Clouds are high flying fogs.
