“Oh Uncle Isaac, Give it a rest, will you?” If that were my nephew I would bean him with an apple.
Um… ‘unless acted upon by an outside FORCE’…Guess he didn’t learn the lesson as well as he could have…
Ropes of different length will result in torsion. IOW, Isaac will leave him twisting in the wind.
The inaccuracy here is that in those days, that boys would never speak to an adult like that. he’d have been hided. Smart-alec kids just aren’t funny.
And there’s Newton’s little-known Law of Motion 1.5: “A swing with one rope longer than the other will always swing crooked.”
Jeff0811 almost 7 years ago
“Oh Uncle Isaac, Give it a rest, will you?” If that were my nephew I would bean him with an apple.
Ryan Maitland Premium Member almost 7 years ago
Um… ‘unless acted upon by an outside FORCE’…Guess he didn’t learn the lesson as well as he could have…
Cerabooge almost 7 years ago
Ropes of different length will result in torsion. IOW, Isaac will leave him twisting in the wind.
jaythor70 almost 5 years ago
The inaccuracy here is that in those days, that boys would never speak to an adult like that. he’d have been hided. Smart-alec kids just aren’t funny.
Earthling Premium Member about 4 years ago
And there’s Newton’s little-known Law of Motion 1.5: “A swing with one rope longer than the other will always swing crooked.”