Interviewer: And I’m here today with Professor Useless…
Professor: Eustace.
Interviewer: Eustace – sorry. Who tells me he’s devised a
revolutionary new mouse catching device. So, Professor, perhaps you’d like to
tell us a bit about it.
Professor: Certainly. You see it’s quite straight forward.
What you do is you turn this crank here – like this…(clanking) which flicks
this beam (twang) which knocks the boot (clunk) which then kicks over the
bucket (thud) releasing the bowling ball (rumbling) down the path and onto the
slide (small thud followed by continued rumbling) where it knocks the pole
which…oh…um…it seems to have missed the pole. Um…well never mind – we’ll try
again. You see you turn this crank (clanking) which flicks this beam (twang)
which knocks the boot…ah…well it – it should knock the boot. Um…let’s set it up
again and try once more. So you turn this crank which flicks this beam which
knocks the boot which kicks over the bucket - yes!- which releases the bowling
ball down the path onto the slide where it knocks the pole which releases the
ball - like that - which falls through the bathtub onto the plank which
launches the mannequin onto the pressure pad which lowers the cage!...ah.
Interviewer: The…uh…cage seems to have got stuck halfway.
Professor: Yes…yes - very strange. I can’t understand why
that’s happened.
Interviewer: Well, never mind, Professor. You’ll be pleased
to hear that I too have developed a mouse catching machine.
Professor: Really? What is it?
(Meow)
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