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A Minnesota Winter
1. The parts of speech are lungs and air. 2. The inhabitants of Moscow are called Mosquitoes. 3. A census taker is man who goes from house to house increasing the population. 4. Water is composed of two gins. Oxygin and hydrogin. Oxygin is pure gin. Hydrogin is gin and water. 5. (Define H2O and CO2.) H2O is hot water and CO2 is cold water. 6. The general direction of the Alps is straight up. 7. A city purifies its water supply by filtering the water then forcing it through an aviator. 8. Most of the houses in France are made of plaster of Paris. 9. The spinal column is a long bunch of bones. The head sits on the top and you sit on the bottom. 10. It is so hot in some places that the people there have to live in other places. 11. 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. 12. One of the main causes of dust is janitors. 13. A scout obeys all to whom obedience is due and respects all dually constipated authorities. 14. One byproduct of raising cattle is calves. 15. To prevent head colds, use an agonizer to spray into the nose until it drips into the throat. 16. The four seasons are salt, pepper, mustard, and vinegar. 17. Oliver Cromwell had a large red nose, but under it were deeply religious feelings. 18. The word trousers is an uncommon noun because it is singular at the top and plural at the bottom. 19. Syntax is all the money collected at the church from inners. 20. The blood circulates through the body by flowing down one leg and up the other. 21. In spring, the salmon swim upstream to spoon. 22. Iron was discovered because someone smelt it. 23. In the middle of the 18th century, all the morons moved to Utah. 24. A person should take a bath once in the summer, not so often in the winter. 25. A vibration is a motion that cannot make up its mind which way it wants to go. 26. There are 26 vitamins in all, but some of the letters are yet to be discovered. Finding them all means living forever. 27. There is a tremendous weight pushing down on the center of the Earth because of so much population stomping around up here these days. 28. Lime is a green-tasting rock. 29. Many dead animals in the past changed to fossils while others preferred to be oil. 30. Genetics explain why you look like your father and if you don't why you should. 31. Vacuums are nothings. We only mention them to let them know we know they're there. 32. Some oxygen molecules help fires burn while others help make water, so sometimes it's brother against brother. 33. Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun. But I have never been able to make out the numbers. 34. We say the cause of perfume disappearing is evaporation. Evaporation gets blamed for a lot of things people forget to put the top on. 35. To most people, solutions mean finding the answers. But to chemists, solutions are things that are still all mixed up. 36. In looking at a drop of water under a microscope, we find there are twice as many H's as O's. 37. Clouds are high flying fogs. 38. I am not sure how clouds get formed. But the clouds know how to do it, and that is the important thing. 39. Clouds just keep circling the earth around and around. And around. There is not much else to do. 40. Cyanide is so poisonous that one drop of it on a dogs tongue will kill the strongest man. 41. A blizzard is when it snows sideways. 42. A monsoon is a French gentleman. 43. Thunder is a rich source of loudness. 44. Isotherms and isobars are even more important than their names sound.
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