Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 19:30:50 -0400 From: Wheather Cookie Subject: BLAGUES-L: Oh! What We Were Teached At School Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 19:42:45 -0600 From: "E.W.SMITH" From: Janet Mackay OH! WHAT WE WERE TEACHED AT SCHOOL A monsoon is a French gentleman. One of the main causes of dust is janitors. For asphyxiation, apply artificial respiration until the patient is dead. Blood circulates through the body by flowing down one leg and up the other. To keep milk from turning sour, keep it in the cow. Genetics explains why you look like your father, and if you don't, why you should. Water vapor gets together in a big cloud. When it gets big enough to be called a drop, it does. There is a tremendous weight pushing down on the center of the earth because so many people are stomping around there these days. Vacuums are nothings. We only mention them to let them know we know they are there. The word "trousers" is an uncommon noun because it is singular at the top and plural at the bottom. A vibration is a motion that cannot make up its mind which way it wants to go. There are 26 vitamins in all, but some of the letters are yet to be discovered. The law of gravity says no fair jumping up without coming down. Rain is saved up in cloud banks. I'm not sure how clouds are formed, but clouds know how to do it, and that's the important thing. You can listen to thunder and tell how close it came to getting hit. If you don't hear it, you got it, so never mind. The cause of perfume disappearing is evaporation. Evaporation gets blamed for a lot of things people forget to put the top on. Someday we might discover magnets that can point in any direction.