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HUMOR More kid humor

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (abennett@MIT.EDU)
Mon Aug 15 17:11:02 1994

From: abennett@MIT.EDU
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 94 17:04:24 EDT


Date: Mon, 15 Aug 94 12:55:13 PDT
From: Connie_Kleinjans@Novell.COM (Connie Kleinjans)
From: rossix!rwc.dnet!apdma@openlink.openlink.com (Mary Ann Anthony)

Kids say the darndest things.  Some grade school teachers must
agree with that, because they keep journals of amusing things their
students have written in papers.  Here are a few examples:

  -  The future of "I give" is "I take."
  -  The parts of speech are lungs and air.
  -  The inhabitants of Moscow are called Mosqitoes.
  -  A census taker is man who goes from house to house increasing
     the population.
  -  Water is composed of two gins.  Oxygin and hydrogin.  Oxygin
     is pure gin.  Hydrogin is gin and water.
  -  (Define H2O and CO2.)  H2O is hot water and CO2 is cold water.
  -  A virgin forest is a forest where the hand of man has never
     set foot.
  -  The general direction of the Alps is straight up.
  -  A city purifies its water supply by filtering the water then
     forcing it through an aviator.
  -  Most of the houses in France are made of plaster of Paris.
  -  The people who followed the Lord were called the 12 oppossums.
  -  The spinal column is a long bunch of bones.  The head sits on
     the top and you sit on the bottom.
  -  We do not raise silk worms in the United States, because we
     get our silk from rayon.  He is a larger worm and gives more
     silk.
  -  One on the main casues of dust is janitors.
  -  A scout obeys all to whom obedience is due and respects all
     duly constipated authorities.
  -  One by-product of raising cattle is calves.
  -  To prevent head colds, use an agonizer to spray into the nose
     until it drips into the throat.
  -  The four seasons are salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar.
  -  The climate is hottest next to the Creator.
  -  Oliver Cromwell had a large red nose, but under it were deeply
     religious feelings.
  -  The word trousers is an uncommon noun because it is singular
     at the top and plural at the bottom.
  -  Syntax is all the money collected at the church from sinners.
  -  The blood circulates through the body by flowing down one leg
     and up the other.
  -  In spring, the salmon swim upstream to spoon.
  -  Iron was discovered because someone smelt it.
  -  In the middle of the 18th century, all the morons moved to
     Utah.
  -  A person should take a bath once in the summer, not so often
     in the winter.


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