right on back home now and hiss in your own pit!"
With that little Johnny the Snake says "OK Mrs Pots,
I'll go back to my own pit and hiss."
Little Johnny the Snake got back home and started
hissing in the pit and his Mom came out, livid, " You
naught y litt le snake, I just told you just ten minutes
ago, that's my pit and you're not going to hiss in it,
I told you if you want to hiss in a pit you go up to
Mrs Pots' pit 'n hiss!" "Hold on Mom, I went up to
Mrs Pots' pit and started hissing and Mrs Pots came
out and told me I wasn't allowed to hiss in her pit,
that I had to come back home and hiss in my own pit,
so that's what I'm doing here, Mom, hissing in the
pit."
"Let's get this straight Johnny, you mean to tell me
Mrs Pots wouldn't let you hiss in her pit? Is that what
you're telling me?" "That's right Mom, Mrs Pots
wouldn't let me hiss in her pit," said Johnny. "The
audacity!" said Johnny's Mom, "I knew the Pots before
they even had a pit to hiss in!"
There are roars of laughter, everyone hopes that there
will be a slip of the tongue, but I manage to squeeze
through with out any major mistakes. (The only time I
made a major mistake was in front of full auditorium
at Birmingham University in England and I got all my
mucking words fuddled!)
"OK so much for my story of the man who
invented the tiny flying device, I'll save it for another
time. Let's get on with some questions. Next!"
How can you tell when you experience a Eureka!
Good question! Eurekas! I love 'em. You'll know it
all right because the flash of inspiration that you
receive will be so 'right', many things will slot into
place right there and then. Furthermore, because the