Worth a thought:)

The following gems of wisdom were
gleaned from test papers and essays from
elementary, junior high, high school, and
college students :-

1. "Water is composed of two gins, Oxygin and
Hydrogin. Oxygin is pure gin. Hydrogin is gin and water."

2. "Blood flows down one leg and up the other."

3. "Dew is formed on leaves when the sun shines
down on them and makes them perspire."

4. "Mushrooms always grow in damp places and so
they look like umbrellas."

5. "Momentum: What you give a person when they
are going away."

6. "To prevent milk from turning sour, keep it
in the cow."

7. "The parts of speech are lungs and air."

8. "The inhabitants of Moscow are called
Mosquitoes."

9. "A census taker is a man who goes from house
to house increasing the population."

10. "Most of the houses in France are made of
plaster of Paris."

11. "The spinal column is a long bunch of
bones. The head sits on the top and you sit on
the bottom."

12. "The word trousers is an uncommon noun
because it is singular at the top and plural
at the bottom."

13. "Iron was discovered because someone smelt
it."

14. "Syntax is all the money collected at the
church from sinners."

15. Beethoven wrote music even though he was
deaf. He was so deaf he wrote loud music. He
took long walks in the forest even when
everyone was calling for him. Beethoven
expired in 1827 and later died for this.

16. The sun never set on the British Empire
because the British Empire's in the East and
the sun sets in the West.

17. Gravity was invented by Issac Walton. It is
chiefly noticeable in the fall when the apples
are falling off the trees.

18. Finally Magna Carta provided that no man
should be hanged twice for the same offence.

19. After his death, his career suffered a
dramatic decline.

20. Actually, Homer was not written by Homer
but by another man of that name.

21. Bach was the most famous composer in the
world and so was Handel. Handel was half
German, half Italian and half English. He was very large.

22. The Greeks were a highly sculptured people,
and without them we wouldn't have history. The
Greeks also had myths. A myth is a female moth.

23. The invention of the steamboat caused a
network of rivers to spring up.

24. Queen Victoria was the longest queen. She
sat on a thorn for 63 years.