[DJ in British Columbia send in these actual excerpts from students Science
Exam answers (names of students and teachers are held in strict confidence).
Can’t make this stuff up!]
Benjamin Franklin produced electricity by rubbing cats backwards.
The dodo is a bird that is almost decent by now.
To remove air from a flask, fill it with water, tip the water out, and
put the cork in quick before the air can get back in.
The Earth makes one resolution every 24 hours.
The cuckoo bird does not lay his own eggs.
Parallel lines never meet, unless you bend one or both of them.
Algebraically, symbols are used when you do not know what you are talking
about.
Dew is formed on leaves when the sun shines down on them and makes them
perspire.
Blood flows down one leg and up the other.
A person should take a bath once in the summer, and not quite so often
in the winter.
For fractures: to see if the limb is broken, wiggle it gently back and
forth.
To remove dust from the eye, pull the eye down over the nose.
When you smell an odorless gas, it is probably carbon monoxide.
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Dr Bob Griffin
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“Jesus Knows Me, This I Love!”