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 hi ghly 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.
