A listener leaves us a voicemail about a sign his high school science teacher posted in the classroom to encourage students to keep the noise down. It read “Laboratory — more of the first 5, less of the last 7.” As in more of the first five letters in the word, labor, and less of the last seven letters, oratory. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Funny Laboratory Sign”
We got a call from David who said when he was much younger he had a science teacher who had a sign on the wall that was intended to keep the students quiet.
And the sign simply said laboratory, but by that he put more of the first five, less of the last seven.
So more of the first five letters, which are labor, and less of the last seven, which is oratory.
Laboratory.
Very clever.
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