CHILDREN ARE OUR FUTURE? G_D FORBID!
If the following are any indication, then we are in real deep doo doo. Believe it or not, the following answers and comments are from test papers and essays that were submitted to science and health teachers by elementary, junior high, high school, and college students here in
1.) H2O is hot water, and CO2 is cold water.
2.) To collect fumes of sulfur, hold a deacon over a flame in a test tube.
3.) When you smell an odorless gas, it is probably carbon monoxide.
4.) Water is composed of two gins, Oxygin and Hydrogin. Oxygin is pure gin. Hydrogin is water and gin.
5.) A super saturated solution is one that holds more than it can hold.
6.) Liter is a nest of young puppies.
7.) Magnet: something you find crawling all over a dead cat.
8.) Momentum: this is what you give to people who are going away.
9.) Vacuum: A large empty place where the pope lives.
10.) Artificial insemination is when the farmer does it to the cow instead of the bull.
11.) The pistol of a flower is its only protection against insects.
12.) A fossil is an extinct animal. The older it is the more extinct it is.
13.) To remove dust from the eye, pull the eye down over the nose.
14.) For a nosebleed: Put the nose much lower than the heart until the heart stops.
15.) For head colds: use an agonizer to spray the nose until it drops into your throat.
16.) Germinate: To become a naturalized German.
17.) The tides are a fight between the Earth and moon. All water tends towards the moon, because there is no water on the moon, and nature abhors a vacuum. I forget where the sun joins in this fight.
18.) Blood flows down one leg and up the other.
So much for no child left behind!
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