"Schoolboy howlers".....take a breath....

Reading Anna's (Larsson) various blogs, with reference to her gorgeous boys, Axel and August - (my two favourites also), I thought of them today when reading a newspaper article with the above title. In case you don't know, "schoolboy howlers" are the remarks children make (and schoolgirls are just as likely to make them as boys..!) when they use the incorrect word or meaning, and often when answering questions in a test, or exam. - an experience yet to come for Axel and August...The following are all factual, and have been compiled by school teachers over the years. To give you some examples - animals:- The largest mammals are to be found in the sea because there is nowhere else to put them./ The adder (snake) is a poisonous snack./ One horsepower is the amount of energy it takes to drag a horse 500 feet in one second./ To stop milk turning sour, keep it in the cow ! Change of subject :- books and words - Homer wrote The Oddity (Odyssey). Actually, it was not written by Homer but by another man of that name..... / Polonius was a mythical sausage.../Letters written in sloping type are in hysterics (italics )- and so am I reading this list, talk about making one breathless ! How about this one - the wife of a Duke is a Dukky. This must be a confusion with the lands pertaining to a Duke which are called a Duchy. /In the middle of the eighteenth century, all the morons (Mormon's) moved to Utah, U.S.A.. / President Carter faced the Iranian Hostess (hostage) crisis./ Louis XV1 was gelatined to death....I must stop this idiocy, but I think you might like this one - The nineteenth century was when people stopped reproducing by hand and started reproducing by machine! So now you know - well, you've all heard of in- vitro fertilisation, so it's not that far off the truth ..!! Enough, enough, my sides ache and my breath is coming out in short pants - make of that what you wiiiiill - !! 'bye for now - k..p b.......g.... p.s. Vacuums are nothings. We only mention them to let them know we know they are there !...more another day....