Wednesday, March 01, 2006
Is that daisy armed?
December's Harper's wasn't all doom and gloom. It also had some excellent children's errors, collected by the redoubtable Richard Lederer. I know we've all read plenty before, but some of these are really fresh and excellent:
- The law of gravity says no fair jumping up without coming back down.
- Some oxygen molecules help fires burn while others help make water, so sometimes it's brother against brother.
- Proteins are composed of a mean old acid.
- Clouds atre high-flying fogs. I am not sure how clouds get formed. But the clouds know how to do it, and that is the most important thing. Clouds just keep circling the earth around and around. And around. There is not much else to do.
- The wind is like the air, only pushier.
- The pistol of a flower is its only protection against insects.
