Electricity is a mystery!

[redqueen]

From a Bob Jones 4th grade "Science" textbook.



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[HopeHoops]

1. E-FUCKING-GADS!

There just aren't words to describe that.

[hobbit709]

2. That kind of stupid should be excruciatingly painful

[geardaddy]

3. Yechhh.

The people who write and publish these books should be jailed.

[snooper2]

4. Maybe ICP can give their idiot juggalos a new song

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Electricity is really mysterious because God does it.

But don't worry, just stick this fork in that electrical outlet and God will show you the mysterious electricity.

[ohiosmith]

6. She's going to hell for using that hair dryer. Hair dryers are instruments of Satan.

[hunter]

7. Electricity was named after this hot woman named Amber.

New Latin ēlectricus, "amber-like."

She could make your toes tingle, but when she was angry she was like lightning.

Her acolytes were called electrons, and they were everywhere, and there were many ways to bring them forth.

Twenty dollars in the red light district would usually do the trick.

[MilesColtrane]

8. !

[charlie and algernon]

9. sigh, I seem to be using Tommy Lee Jones more and more

[Taverner]

10. Um.......

[rurallib]

11. scratch 'electrical engineer' from the future careers for the voluntarily stupid.

[klook]

12. LOL, reminds me of the James Thurber piece

in My Life and Hard Times where he talks about his grandmother living in fear that electricity was "dripping invisibly all over the house" from the light sockets if a wall switch was left on.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. My ex-mother-in-law thought the reason her refrigerator wasn't working

was that there was a knot in the cord and the electricity couldn't get through.

[klook]

14. Well, of course that's perfectly plausible

as long as it's a right-handed knot in the northern hemisphere and a left-handed knot in the southern hemisphere!

[sakabatou]

17. Maybe KO could read that.

[stevenleser]

15. It's not a mystery, ITS FROM THE DEVIL!!!!1!1!!

[Dead_Parrot]

16. Seriously, how do these people remember to breathe?

I lost 20 IQ points just reading that.

[sakabatou]

18. To these idiot: Lightning.