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1

Aunt: ‘Can you explain radio to me, Salman?’

Salman: ‘Well, if you had a very long dog, reaching from New York to Chicago, and you trod on his tail on New York, it would bark in Chicago. That is telegraphy and radio is precisely the same only without the dog.’

2

They recently isolated the gene for shyness.

They had a time finding it, because it was hiding behind a couple of other genes.

3

A wound –be chicken fancier had some difficulty with her flock and wrote the following letter to the Department of Agriculture:

‘Something is wrong with my chickens. Every morning when I come out I find two or three lying on the ground cold and stiff with their feet in the air. Can you tell me what the matter is?’

After a little while she received the following letter form Department:

‘Dear Madam. Your chickens are dead.’