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[Darkwing]

President Bush visits all the grade schools in order to improve his electoral ratings. At one school, the teacher is holding a discussion regarding the meanings of certain words.  President Bush leads the class.


"Can anybody give me an example of the word 'disaster'?" he asks.


One little girl raises her hand and answers, "What if my friend Lucy, who lives on a farm, was run over by a tractor and killed.  That would be a disaster Mr.President."


"I'm sorry" says Bush, "But that would not be a disaster, that would be an accident. Does anybody else want to have a go?"


A little boy in the front raises his hand.  "What if a school bus full of children drove off a cliff and everyone inside died?"


"No" says Bush, "That would be a 'great loss'.  Can't anyone give me an example of the word 'disaster'?"


After a long silence, a boy in the back raises his hand and in a small voice he says, "What if an Air Force One jet carrying the president was shot down in friendly fire missile and everyone on board was killed?"


"Yes! That's right!" cries the President in triumph, "And can you tell me why that would be a disaster?"


"Well," says the boy, "It would have to be a disaster because it certainly wouldn't be a great loss and it probably wouldn't be an accident either."

[milanius]

Could anyone kindly explain that Pascal joke to us 7th grade science class dropouts??

Actually, I did pass high school biology and chemistry but never had to take physics. Totally cheated my way through the chemistry lab .... just made the smartest girl in class my lab partner in exchange for sitting at my lunch table where the cute guys hung out. (Isn't shcool idiotic?)

I was so bad at lab alone that I think I set rubber on fire ... it wasn't even supposed to look like rubber, it was supposed to congeal into a clear gel but mine turned to rubber and then caught on fire! Would have been a fine joke if I knew the actually chemicals to tell about it.

Rubber, oh my... you were even worse than me ! I didn't even know what the heck to do during chemistry and physics lab classes I was decent in theory, though, but that was so long ago... I forgot most of that stuff anyway.

And now, to explain - here's the Pascal Unit - notice that it's One Newton/One Square Meter (yes, meter, sorry if that rocks your yards ); and here's also The Man Himself... so, in essence, Newton draws a square on the ground, with dimensions of 1m x 1m (= 1m**2) and then stands over it... get it ? Pascal ???