Interpretations
of nature from junior high, high school, and college test
papers and essays submitted to science and health teachers
(spelling errors preserved)....
"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 oderless gas, it is probably carbon
monoxide"
"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 bowls, of which there are
five - a, e, i, o, and u."
"The pistol of a flower is its only protections agenst
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 ben 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."
"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."
"Vacumm: 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 then 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."
"For head cold: use an agonizer to spray the nose
untill it drops in your throat."
"To keep milk from turning sour: Keep it in the cow."