JOHNNYS LITTLE EXPERIMENT
Added on: 22nd Jun 2015
A teacher at an infant school is doing a
science lesson and asks all the children
to perform an experiment of their own choosing.
After the children have been busy
for a few minutes, she gets to the
desk of little Johnny.
Johnny has a spider on his desk
and she asks what he was doing.
"Well Miss, the spider's name is
Herbert and watch this."
Johnny then bends down to the spider
and whispers "Run, Herbert, Run"
and the spider, as if by magic,
moves across the desk.
The teacher is a little mystified.
Johnny then gets a hold of the spider
and removes one leg.
The teacher is taken aback but lets
the experiment continue.
Johnny again whispers "Run, Herbert, Run"
and the spider, as if by magic,
moves across the desk.
Johnny then gets hold of the spider
and removes another 2 legs
and repeats the experiment.
"Run, Herbert, Run" and the spider
does continue to move across the desk,
a bit in a somewhat limp fashion.
By this time the teacher
is getting a little concerned.
The experiment continues in
the same vein until Herbert, the spider,
has one leg left
(the teacher at this point is totally mortified).
Johnny then bends down to the
spider and again removes the last leg
so that Herbert is now just a blob
and again he whispers
"Run, Herbert, Run"
but Herbert doesn't move.
He repeats the command again
but a little bit louder.
After several attempts,
Johnny is now shouting at the spider
"Run, Herbert, Run"
but still no movement.
Johnny then looks at the teacher
and she asks
"Well, Johnny, an interesting experiment
but what are you trying to prove with it?"
Johnny replies,
"Well, Miss, spiders with no legs are deaf"
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