Subject: Breathe a sigh Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 19:07:14 -0400 My friend Evelyn Cook states: "This article was originally run in Popular Science and then in Ann Landers. These were actual answers given to Science questions." =============================================================================== 1. To collect fumes of sulfur, hold a deacon over a flame in a test tube 2. When you smell an odorless gas, it is probably carbon monxide. 3. Water is composed of two gins, oxygin and hydrogin. Oxygin is pure gin. Hydrogin is gin and water. 4. Nitrogen is not found in Ireland because it is not found in a free state. 5. When you breathe you inspire. When you do not breathe you expire. 6. Three kind of blood vessals are arteries, vanes and caterpillars. 7. Before giving a blood transfusion find out if the blood is affirmative or negative. 8. The moon is a planet just like earth only it is even deader. 9. The pistol of a flower is its only protection against insects. 10. A permanent set of teeth consists of eight canines, eight cuspids, two molars, and eight cuspidors. 11. A fossil is an extinct animal. The older it is, the more extinct it is. 12. For fainting: Rub the person's chest, or, if it's a lady, rub her arm above the hand. Or put her head between the knees of the nearest medical doctor. 13. Equator- a menagerie lion running around Earth through Africa. 14. Germinate- to become a naturalized German. 15. Rhubarb- a kind of celery gone bloodshot. 16. The skeleton is what is left after the insides have been taken out and the outsides have been taken off. The purpose of the skeleton is so that there is something to hitch the meat to. 17. To remove dust from the eye, pull the eye down over the nose. 18. To prevent contraception wear a condominium. 19. The body consists of three parts- the brainium, the borax, and the abominable cavity. The brainium contains the brain. The borax contains the heart and lungs, and the abominable cavity contains the bowls, of which there are five A E I O and U. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PackyHumor: some idiotic, inane or otherwise confusing mail that packy, for no discernable reason, chooses to inflict on his friends. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------