Agnes by Tony Cochran for March 18, 2022

Someone needs lessons in Greek I guess, and biology.

Hypotenuse, hypothesis… I dunno…

but one of them must be when the guy in the white suit swings the pocket watch in front of you…

and then he makes you chatter like a gibbon,

and kiss your Aunt Mary whenever he says peanut butter.

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One of those hypotenuse guys called my brother onstage, many years ago, when we were visiting in Florida,

and made him do that stuff…

He didn’t remember any of it… or understand why our cousin started calling him “Kissy-Face”.

I see cardboard boxes to make the sign

They might be a bit moldy, thats part of the science of decay too

agnes has got the scoop on the hippo poop, she just needs to keep trout in the loop…

At this rate she’s a shoe in for first place.

Probably would’ve been less work to do a real science project, Agnes.

the chicken wing’s sign is Sagittarius

It looked like a chicken leg yesterday.

Back in the ’90’s there was a painting called “The Holy Virgin Mary”, which was adorned with elephant dung—honestly!!

Well, when it was exhibited in a group showing at the Brooklyn Museum, then-Mayor Giuliani blew a gasket, and demanded the entire show be removed!

Luckily, cooler heads prevailed, and the exhibition remained.

I’ve been out of high school so long I forgot all this stuff.

As incredible as it may seem, a few days ago I actually needed to find the length of the hypotenuse of a triangle. First time ever since high school. Of course, I had to look up the formula since I had mentally filed it away under “Things I will never use in real life.”

Random musings:

Her forays into science, as illustrated here, are likely to rival her forays into the culinary arts. Uh-oh.

Wonder if there’s any coffee left in that cup? She should be aware that the presence of such a contaminant could radically alter the parameters of her experiment. (Don’t I sound scientifical?)

If she can’t tell the difference between hypotenuse, hypothesis and hippo poop, I can’t wait to see what she comes up with for pie chart.