CABINET OF CURIOSITIES (NEW CONCEPTS)

[Mick Harper]

Marking Your Own Homework

[Mick Harper]

Those of you who been given a scare by something you saw on YouTube should get out that blood pressure thingy you bought several years ago. Yes, it may well give an alarmingly high figure.

However, if you measure it next morning you will find your blood pressure has already gone down from 177 to 172. Now draw a graph with these two points on it (you may have to use dotted lines to get from one side of the graph to the other) and return the blood pressure thingy to its cubby hole. Job done!

[Mick Harper]

You are a Victorian gentleman and are planning a trip from your Pall Mall club to Birmingham where you intend to buy some iron foundry or other. You ask Soames, the hall porter, to arrange the tickets.

"By train, sir?"
"Of course, man, how else am I going to get there, Shanks's pony?"
"It's just they've built a turnpike, sir, so I thought maybe..."
"How fast does a Hansom go on one of then?"
"I'm looking, sir... ooh, no, they've built a motorway now, you'll be going seventy miles an hour all the way."
"That's no faster than a train. Besides, I'm not trusting myself to a hansom cab driver, not at those speeds."
"You have to drive it yourself, sir."
"Talk sense, man. First class, smoker, back to the engine."