BLUEMOMENT

An atom said he thought he had lost an electron. 'Are you sure?' asked a fellow atom. 'Aye, I'm positive,' he replied.

- Herald Diary

Without wishing to appear negative, it would be better if you didn't go charging off to your computer terminal every time a spark of a thought jumps across your mind

I once heard a rather fine poem, reputedly by James Clark Maxwell no less, which began something like:

Gin a body meet a body flyin through the air,
Gin a body strike a body, will it fly, and where?...

I wish I knew the rest of it. Can anyone help?

In Memory of Edward Wilson, Who Repented of What Was in His Mind to Write after Section

Gin a body meet a body
Flyin’ through the air,
Gin a body hit a body,
Will it fly? and where?
Ilka impact has its measure,
Ne’er a ane hae I,
Yet a’ the lads they measure me,
Or, at least, they try.

Gin a body meet a body
Altogether free,
How they travel afterwards
We do not always see.
Ilka problem has its method
By analytics high;
For me, I ken na ane o’ them,
But what the waur am I?

James Clerk Maxwell

He wrote quite a few poems it would seem.

http://www.poemhunter.com/james-clerk-maxwell/

jimi ---- clerk r. --- eat your heart out

Shard wrote:An atom said he thought he had lost an electron. 'Are you sure?' asked a fellow atom.

'Aye,' he replied. 'But it's nae bother. I've got an ion constitution.'

George W Bush to the vice-president:
'What's so great about putting a man on the moon? It's not rocket science..'

I'll never forget the footage of the most powerful man in the western world hearing the first news of the attacks while visiting a primary school classroom.