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Entertaining Excerpts from A child’s Garden of Misinformation by Art Linkletter

Entertaining Excerpts from A child’s Garden of Misinformation by Art Linkletter. When the moon is between the sun and the earth, we have a lunatic eclipse. . Q. On some clear nights we do not see the moon. Why not? A. Because of invisible clouds.

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Entertaining Excerpts from A child’s Garden of Misinformation by Art Linkletter

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  1. Entertaining Excerpts fromA child’s Garden of Misinformationby Art Linkletter

  2. When the moon is between the sun and the earth, we have a lunatic eclipse.

  3. Q. On some clear nights we do not see the moon. Why not? A. Because of invisible clouds.

  4. “We know much more than ancient peoples did. They thought it was 240,000 miles to the moon. We found out it was 240,000. The difference is we know.”

  5. Astronomy is to look in the sky and see stars while astrology is to look up and see lions and virgins and other spooky creatures.

  6. The sun is really a star. How it fools us is by shining in the day and being of the unpointed kind.

  7. The Milky Way was discovered by Louis Pasteur.

  8. Air is called atmosphere when we want it to sound more important.

  9. Stratus fear is something that astronauts get, but they take a pill for it.

  10. Seaweeds is something you don’t want your neighbors to do when they look in your garden.

  11. If you eat a toadstool and don’t die, it’s a mushroom.

  12. Chlorophyll is something plants have to make them smell nice to other plants.

  13. Anyone suffering from an electrical shock should be put in an insulation ward.

  14. The Mnemonic Plague is remembered to this day.

  15. Cold makes everything get smaller and heat makes everything get bigger-if you forget about ice cubes.

  16. Chemistry was begun by alchemists who were looking for gold but had to settle for chemistry.

  17. Humidity is the experience of looking for air and finding water.

  18. Although I weigh 88 pounds, I weigh only 40 kilograms. Everybody weighs less in the metrical system.

  19. Heavy water is like with ships in it.

  20. The General Law of Accelerated Bodies is that the faster a body goes the quicker he gets there.

  21. My experimental materials are a box of matches, a candle, and an empty glass of water.

  22. Q: If you put the tip of a thermometer in boiling water, what would it say?A: Take me out, if it could talk.

  23. A weather vane tells the direction of the wind. When the wind blows in various directions, use a varicose vane.

  24. If a man has only one of them why is it called an abdomen instead of an adoman?

  25. When ice and water are put in the same glass the ice always comes to the top. One of them has to, and it would look kind of silly the other way.

  26. A fire must have oxygen, but not too much. Giving it too much is known as blowing it out.

  27. Iron is very useful unless it meets oxygen. Then it is rust. It is like a person getting in with the wrong crowd.

  28. Molecules all pull toward each other. They have learned the value of sticking together. Because of this, even though they are very tiny, molecules will probably never become extinct.

  29. When animals seem to be thinking, they are usually only instincting.

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