Things Hard To Understand
Sometimes we run into things that are real hard to understand,
But we hang in there and eventually we grasp them in our hand,
This poem discusses a few things I used to have trouble with,
Perhaps you may have a few of my items out there on your lists.
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Things Hard To Understand
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I never did understand what a “dangling participle” was in class,
Lots of teachers tried to teach me, but I was just at an impasse.
I’m sure I have dangled a few participles in my engineering letters,
But correct English didn’t contribute to doing the job any better.
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The dog dangled the poo, and the sentence has a dangling participle putting him in the litter bin.
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“Partial derivatives” we’re a mystery to me in my calculus class,
Sometimes making me feel just like I was a real big dumb ass.
But in my job out in the real world, I never heard of them again,
So I guess they were one thing I didn’t ever need to really understand.
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This does bring back some ancient memories from my Texas Tech days.
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“Entropy” in thermodynamics class was a bit of a mystery to me.
I had a professor in college that made it a little easier to see,
Calling it “the mix upedness of a system” that sounded so good,
So I accepted his definition along, even though I misunderstood.
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An increase in entropy increases the mix upedness of the system.
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“Electrical current” through a conductor is hard to comprehend,
As you can’t see it, but you can feel it traveling through your skin,
The only Electrical Engineering class that I took at Texas Tech,
I made a D trying to understand the class that made me a wreck.
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In nuclear physics, we studied a sub atomic particle called the “Muon“.
Each muon has a corresponding antiparticle called an antimuon.
I say let’s leave all this subatomic bullcrap to the nuclear physicists.
There’s no need to even talk about something you can,t see to test.
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I see a muon and a bunch other things only nuclear physicists need to know.
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“Faecal streptococci bacteria” is an indicator for polluted water,
Yet it is found in the stomach and intestines of our sons and daughters,
I don’t understand how something that’s already inside of us,
Can make us so ill with diarrhea and vomitimg making us fuss.
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Faecal Streptococci Bacteria are nasty looking little boogers.
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Pam is always asking me to hand her that little “doober” over there,
I tell her “I don’t understand what a doober means” with a stare,
Then she says “oh never mind’ I’ll go get it for myself this time.”
The problem is that the word doober refers to every little thing.
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This could be a doober, but I think it’s an AC DC Blivet. Hold your hand over green and you have two square prongs. Hold it over blue and you have three round prongs.
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I go to the Doctor feeling all congested and achy my body through,
She runs a little test and then she tells me Bill you have the “flu,”
And there’s nothing I can do to help, so you’ll have to suffer being blue,
And I don’t understand why I paid $150 for something I already knew.
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Thanks for nothing, I already knew I had the flu.
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There’s still a lot of things today that are really hard to understand,
Like how Obama got elected to a new term as president of the land.
I didn’t vote for him on either time he was the democratic nominee,
So I say this to those who did, I hope all your stock fell like a tree.
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By Bill
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Thanks for reading Things Hard To Understand,
Bill