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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Poppa Needs Shorts + +Author: Leigh Richmond + Walt Richmond + +Illustrator: John Schoenherr + +Release Date: August 25, 2009 [EBook #29789] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POPPA NEEDS SHORTS *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<h1>POPPA NEEDS SHORTS</h1> + +<div class="bk1"><p><big>Given valid data, you can reach completely wrong conclusions. +But given a wrong conclusion, you can still get a right answer!</big></p></div> + +<h2>WALT and LEIGH RICHMOND</h2> + +<p class="hd1"><small>Illustrated by John Schoenherr</small></p> + +<p class="cap">Little Oley had wandered into forbidden territory again—Big +Brother Sven's ham shack. The glowing bottles +here were an irresistible lure, and he liked to pretend +that he knew all there was to know about the mysteries +in this room.</p> + +<p>Of course, Sven said that not even <i>he</i> knew all of the +mysteries, though he admitted he was one of the best ham +operators extant, with QSOs from eighteen countries and +thirty-eight states to his credit.</p> + +<p>At the moment, Sven was busily probing into an open +chassis with a hot soldering iron.</p> + +<p>"Short's in here some place," he muttered.</p> + +<p>"What makes shorts, Sven?" Oley wasn't so knowledgeable +but what he would ask an occasional question.</p> + +<p>Sven turned and glared down. "What are you doing +in here? You know it's a Federal Offense for anybody to +come into this room without I say so?"</p> + +<p>"Momma and Hilda come in all the time, and you don't +say so." Oley stood firm on what he figured were legal +grounds. "What makes shorts?"</p> + +<p>Sven relented a little. This brother had been something +of a surprise to him, coming along when Sven was a +full ten years old. But, he reflected, after a few years +maybe I should get used to the idea. Actually, he sort of +liked the youngster.</p> + +<p>"Shorts," he said, speaking from the superior eminence +of his fourteen years to the four-year-old, "is when electricity +finds a way to get back where it came from without +doing a lot of hard work getting there. But you see, +electricity like to work; so, even when it has an easy +way, it just works harder and uses itself up."</p> + +<p>This confused explanation of shorts was, of course, +taken verbatim, despite the fact that Oley couldn't define +half the words and probably couldn't even pronounce +them.</p> + +<p>"I don't like shorts. I don't like these pink shorts +Momma put on me this morning. Is they electrics, Sven?"</p> + +<p>Sven glanced around at the accidentally-dyed-in-the-laundry, +formerly white shorts.</p> + +<p>"Um-m-m. Yeah. You could call 'em electric."</p> + +<p>With this Oley let out whoop and dashed out of the +room, trailing a small voice behind him. "Momma, +Momma. Sven says my shorts is electric!"</p> + +<p>"I'll short Sven's electrics for him, if he makes fun of +your shorts!" Oley heard his mother's comforting reply.</p> + +<hr /> + +<p>In the adult world days passed before Oley's accidentally +acquired pattern of nubilous information on the +subject of shorts was enlarged. It was only days in the +adult world, but in Oley's world each day was a mountainous +fraction of an entire lifetime, into which came +tumbling and jumbling—or were pulled—bits, pieces, +oddments, landslides and acquisitions of information on +every subject that he ran into, or that ran into him. +Nobody had told Oley that acquiring information was his +job at the moment; the acquisition was partly accidental, +mostly instinctive, and spurred by an intense curiosity +and an even more intense determination to master the +world as he saw it.</p> + +<p>There was the taste of the sick green flowers that +Momma kept in the window box and, just for a side +course, a little bit of the dirt, too. There were the patterns +of the rain on the window, and the reactions of a cat to +having its tail pulled. The fact that you touch a stove one +time, and it's cool and comfortable to lay your head +against, and another time it hurts. Things like that. And +other things—towering adults who sometimes swoop down +on you and throw you high into the air; and most times +walk over you, around you, and ignore you completely. +The jumble of assorted and unsorted information that is +the heritage of every growing young inquiring brain.</p> + +<p>In terms of time, it was only a couple of weeks, if you +were looking at it as an adult, until the next "shorts" +incident.</p> + +<p>Oley was sitting peacefully at the breakfast table, doing +his level best to control the manipulation of the huge +knife-fork-and-spoon, plate-bowl-and-glass, from which +he was expected to eat a meal. Things smelled good. +Momma was cooking doste, and that to Oley smelled best +of all. The doster ticked quietly to itself, then gave a loud +pop, and up came two golden-brown slices of doste. +Dostes? Oley wasn't sure. But he hadn't really begun +paying too much attention to whether one doste was the +same as two doste or what, though he could quite proudly +tell you the difference between one and two.</p> + +<p>Out it came, and fresh butter was spread on it, and in +went two shiny white beds, for some more doste.</p> + +<p>Little Oley watched in fascination. And now he reached +for the tremendous glass sitting on the table in front of +him. But his fingers didn't quite make it. Somehow, the +glass was heavy and slippery, and it eluded him, rolled +over on its side, and spilled the bright purple juicy contents +out across the table in a huge swish.</p> + +<p>Oley wasn't dismayed, but watched with a researcher's +interest as the bright purple juice swept across the table +towards the busily ticking doster. Momma, of course, +wasn't here, or she would have been gruff about it. She'd +just gone into the other room.</p> + +<div class="figc"><img src="images/001.png" width="600" height="403" alt="" title="" /></div> + +<p>The juice spread rapidly at first, and then more and +more slowly, making a huge, circuitous river spreading +across the table, first towards the doster and then away +from it towards the frayed power-cord lying on the table. +It touched and began to run along the cord. Not a very +eventful recording so far, but Oley watched, charmed.</p> + +<p>As he watched, a few bubbles began to appear near the +frayed spot. A few wisps of steam. And then, suddenly, +there was a loud, snarling splat—and Momma screamed +from the doorway. "That juice is making a short!"</p> + +<p>The information, of course, was duly recorded. Juice +makes shorts.</p> + +<p>It was a minor item of information, mixed into a +jumble of others, and nothing else was added to this +particular file for nearly another week.</p> + +<hr /> + +<p>Oley was playing happily on the living room floor that +night. Here there was much to explore, though an adult +might not have thought twice about it. Back in the corner +behind Momma's doing bachine a bright, slender piece of +metal caught Oley's attention. Bigger on one end than the +other, but not really very big anywhere, the sewing +machine needle proved fascinating. As a first experiment, +Oley determined that it worked like a tooth by biting himself +with it. After that he went around the room, biting +other things with it. Information, of course, is information, +and to be obtained any way one can.</p> + +<p>The brown, snaky lamp cord was the end of this experiment. +Oley bit it, viciously, with his new tooth, and had +only barely observed that it had penetrated completely +through when there was a loud splat, and all the lights +in the room went out.</p> + +<p>In the darkness and confusion, of course, Oley moved +away, seeking other new experiences. So the cause of the +short that Momma and Poppa yakked so loudly about was +never attributed to Oley's actions, but only to "How could +a needle have gotten from your sewing machine into this +lamp cord, Alice?"</p> + +<p>But the sum of information had increased. Neatles +stuck into lamp cords had something to do with shorts.</p> + +<p>More time passed. And this time the file on shorts was +stimulated by Poppa. The big, rough, booming voice had +always scared Oley a bit when it sounded mad, like now.</p> + +<p>"Alice, I've just got to have some more shorts!"</p> + +<p>Poppa was rummaging in a drawer far above Oley's +head, so he couldn't see the object under discussion. But +all he already knew about shorts—the information passed +in review before him.</p> + +<p>Shorts are useful. They help electrics to work harder.</p> + +<p>Shorts you wear, and they are electrics.</p> + +<p>Wires are electrics.</p> + +<p>Shorts can be made by juice.</p> + +<p>Shorts can be made by neatles, that bite like teeth.</p> + +<p>Poppa needs more shorts.</p> + +<p>But Oley wasn't motivated to act at the moment. Just +sorting out information and connecting it with other +information files in the necessarily haphazard manner +that might eventually result in something called intelligence, +although he didn't know that yet.</p> + +<p>It was a week later in the kitchen, when Momma +dropped a giant version of the neatle on the floor, that his +information file in this area increased again.</p> + +<p>"Is that a neatle?" Oley asked.</p> + +<p>His mother laughed quietly and looked fondly at her +son as she put the ice pick back on the table.</p> + +<p>"I guess you could call it a needle, Oley," she told him. +"An ice needle."</p> + +<p>Oley instinctively waited until Momma's back was +turned before taking the nice neatle to try its biting +powers; and instinctively took it out of the kitchen before +starting his experiments.</p> + +<p>As he passed the cellar door he heard a soft gurgling +and promptly changed course. Pulling open the door with +difficulty, he seated himself on the cellar stairs to watch a +delightful new spectacle—frothing, gurgling water making +its way across the floor towards the stairs. It looked wonderfully +dirty and brown, and to Oley it was an absorbing +phenomenon. It never occurred to him to tell Momma.</p> + +<p>Suddenly above him the cellar door slammed open, and +Poppa came charging down the stairs, narrowly missing +the small figure, straight into the rising waters, intent, +though Oley couldn't know it, on reaching the drain pipe +in the far corner of the cellar to plug it before water from +the spring rains could back up farther and really flood +the cellar out.</p> + +<p>Halfway across the cellar, Poppa reached up and +grasped the dangling overhead light to turn it on, in +order to see his way to the drain—and suddenly came to +frozen, rigid, gasping stop as his hand clamped firmly +over the socket.</p> + +<p>Little Oley watched. There was juice in the cellar. +Poppa had hold of an electric. Was Poppa trying to make +the shorts he needed?</p> + +<p>Oley wasn't sure. He thought it probable. And from the +superior knowledge of his four years, Oley already knew +a better way to make shorts. Neatles make good shorts. +Juice don't do so well.</p> + +<p>Suddenly, Oley decided to prove his point: Nice neatles +probably made even better shorts than other neatles—and +there was a big electric running up the side of the stairs—an +electric fat enough to make a real good shorts. Maybe +lots of shorts.</p> + +<p>Raising his nice neatle, Oley took careful aim and +plunged it through the 220-volt stove feeder cable.</p> + +<hr /> + +<p>Oley woke up. The strange pretty lady in white was a +new experience. Somebody he hadn't seen before. And +there seemed to be something wrong with his hand, but +Oley hadn't noticed it very much, yet.</p> + +<p>"Well, my little Hero's awake! And how are you this +morning? Your Momma and Poppa will be in to see you +in just a minute."</p> + +<p>The pretty lady in white went away, and Oley gazed +around the white room with its funny shape, happily +recorded the experience, and dozed off again.</p> + +<p>Then suddenly he was awakened again. Momma was +there; and Poppa. And Sven. But they all seemed different +somehow this morning. Momma had been crying, even +though she was smiling bravely now. And Poppa seemed +to have a new softness that he'd seldom seen before. Sven +was looking puzzled.</p> + +<p>"I still say, Pop, that he's a genius. He <i>must</i> have known +what he was doing."</p> + +<p>"Oley," Poppa's voice was husky—gruff, but kinder +and softer than usual. "I want you to answer me carefully. +But understand that it's all right either way. I just want +you to tell me. Why did you put the ice pick through the +stove cable? You saved my life, you know. But I'd like +to know how you knew how."</p> + +<p>Little Oley grinned. His world was peaceful and wonderful +now. And all the big adults were bending and +leaning down and talking to him.</p> + +<p>"Nice neatle," he said. "Big electric. Poppa needed +shorts."</p> + +<div class="trn"><b>Transcriber's Note:</b> +This etext was produced from <i>Analog Science Fact & Fiction</i> January 1964. +Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. +copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and +typographical errors have been corrected without note. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Poppa Needs Shorts + +Author: Leigh Richmond + Walt Richmond + +Illustrator: John Schoenherr + +Release Date: August 25, 2009 [EBook #29789] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POPPA NEEDS SHORTS *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + +POPPA NEEDS SHORTS + + Given valid data, you can reach completely wrong conclusions. But + given a wrong conclusion, you can still get a right answer! + +WALT and LEIGH RICHMOND + +Illustrated by John Schoenherr + + +Little Oley had wandered into forbidden territory again--Big Brother +Sven's ham shack. The glowing bottles here were an irresistible lure, +and he liked to pretend that he knew all there was to know about the +mysteries in this room. + +Of course, Sven said that not even _he_ knew all of the mysteries, +though he admitted he was one of the best ham operators extant, with +QSOs from eighteen countries and thirty-eight states to his credit. + +At the moment, Sven was busily probing into an open chassis with a hot +soldering iron. + +"Short's in here some place," he muttered. + +"What makes shorts, Sven?" Oley wasn't so knowledgeable but what he +would ask an occasional question. + +Sven turned and glared down. "What are you doing in here? You know it's +a Federal Offense for anybody to come into this room without I say so?" + +"Momma and Hilda come in all the time, and you don't say so." Oley stood +firm on what he figured were legal grounds. "What makes shorts?" + +Sven relented a little. This brother had been something of a surprise to +him, coming along when Sven was a full ten years old. But, he reflected, +after a few years maybe I should get used to the idea. Actually, he sort +of liked the youngster. + +"Shorts," he said, speaking from the superior eminence of his fourteen +years to the four-year-old, "is when electricity finds a way to get back +where it came from without doing a lot of hard work getting there. But +you see, electricity like to work; so, even when it has an easy way, it +just works harder and uses itself up." + +This confused explanation of shorts was, of course, taken verbatim, +despite the fact that Oley couldn't define half the words and probably +couldn't even pronounce them. + +"I don't like shorts. I don't like these pink shorts Momma put on me +this morning. Is they electrics, Sven?" + +Sven glanced around at the accidentally-dyed-in-the-laundry, formerly +white shorts. + +"Um-m-m. Yeah. You could call 'em electric." + +With this Oley let out whoop and dashed out of the room, trailing a +small voice behind him. "Momma, Momma. Sven says my shorts is electric!" + +"I'll short Sven's electrics for him, if he makes fun of your shorts!" +Oley heard his mother's comforting reply. + + * * * * * + +In the adult world days passed before Oley's accidentally acquired +pattern of nubilous information on the subject of shorts was enlarged. +It was only days in the adult world, but in Oley's world each day was a +mountainous fraction of an entire lifetime, into which came tumbling and +jumbling--or were pulled--bits, pieces, oddments, landslides and +acquisitions of information on every subject that he ran into, or that +ran into him. Nobody had told Oley that acquiring information was his +job at the moment; the acquisition was partly accidental, mostly +instinctive, and spurred by an intense curiosity and an even more +intense determination to master the world as he saw it. + +There was the taste of the sick green flowers that Momma kept in the +window box and, just for a side course, a little bit of the dirt, too. +There were the patterns of the rain on the window, and the reactions of +a cat to having its tail pulled. The fact that you touch a stove one +time, and it's cool and comfortable to lay your head against, and +another time it hurts. Things like that. And other things--towering +adults who sometimes swoop down on you and throw you high into the air; +and most times walk over you, around you, and ignore you completely. The +jumble of assorted and unsorted information that is the heritage of +every growing young inquiring brain. + +In terms of time, it was only a couple of weeks, if you were looking at +it as an adult, until the next "shorts" incident. + +Oley was sitting peacefully at the breakfast table, doing his level best +to control the manipulation of the huge knife-fork-and-spoon, +plate-bowl-and-glass, from which he was expected to eat a meal. Things +smelled good. Momma was cooking doste, and that to Oley smelled best of +all. The doster ticked quietly to itself, then gave a loud pop, and up +came two golden-brown slices of doste. Dostes? Oley wasn't sure. But he +hadn't really begun paying too much attention to whether one doste was +the same as two doste or what, though he could quite proudly tell you +the difference between one and two. + +Out it came, and fresh butter was spread on it, and in went two shiny +white beds, for some more doste. + +Little Oley watched in fascination. And now he reached for the +tremendous glass sitting on the table in front of him. But his fingers +didn't quite make it. Somehow, the glass was heavy and slippery, and it +eluded him, rolled over on its side, and spilled the bright purple juicy +contents out across the table in a huge swish. + +Oley wasn't dismayed, but watched with a researcher's interest as the +bright purple juice swept across the table towards the busily ticking +doster. Momma, of course, wasn't here, or she would have been gruff +about it. She'd just gone into the other room. + +[Illustration] + +The juice spread rapidly at first, and then more and more slowly, making +a huge, circuitous river spreading across the table, first towards the +doster and then away from it towards the frayed power-cord lying on the +table. It touched and began to run along the cord. Not a very eventful +recording so far, but Oley watched, charmed. + +As he watched, a few bubbles began to appear near the frayed spot. A few +wisps of steam. And then, suddenly, there was a loud, snarling +splat--and Momma screamed from the doorway. "That juice is making a +short!" + +The information, of course, was duly recorded. Juice makes shorts. + +It was a minor item of information, mixed into a jumble of others, and +nothing else was added to this particular file for nearly another week. + + * * * * * + +Oley was playing happily on the living room floor that night. Here there +was much to explore, though an adult might not have thought twice about +it. Back in the corner behind Momma's doing bachine a bright, slender +piece of metal caught Oley's attention. Bigger on one end than the +other, but not really very big anywhere, the sewing machine needle +proved fascinating. As a first experiment, Oley determined that it +worked like a tooth by biting himself with it. After that he went around +the room, biting other things with it. Information, of course, is +information, and to be obtained any way one can. + +The brown, snaky lamp cord was the end of this experiment. Oley bit it, +viciously, with his new tooth, and had only barely observed that it had +penetrated completely through when there was a loud splat, and all the +lights in the room went out. + +In the darkness and confusion, of course, Oley moved away, seeking other +new experiences. So the cause of the short that Momma and Poppa yakked +so loudly about was never attributed to Oley's actions, but only to "How +could a needle have gotten from your sewing machine into this lamp cord, +Alice?" + +But the sum of information had increased. Neatles stuck into lamp cords +had something to do with shorts. + +More time passed. And this time the file on shorts was stimulated by +Poppa. The big, rough, booming voice had always scared Oley a bit when +it sounded mad, like now. + +"Alice, I've just got to have some more shorts!" + +Poppa was rummaging in a drawer far above Oley's head, so he couldn't +see the object under discussion. But all he already knew about +shorts--the information passed in review before him. + +Shorts are useful. They help electrics to work harder. + +Shorts you wear, and they are electrics. + +Wires are electrics. + +Shorts can be made by juice. + +Shorts can be made by neatles, that bite like teeth. + +Poppa needs more shorts. + +But Oley wasn't motivated to act at the moment. Just sorting out +information and connecting it with other information files in the +necessarily haphazard manner that might eventually result in something +called intelligence, although he didn't know that yet. + +It was a week later in the kitchen, when Momma dropped a giant version +of the neatle on the floor, that his information file in this area +increased again. + +"Is that a neatle?" Oley asked. + +His mother laughed quietly and looked fondly at her son as she put the +ice pick back on the table. + +"I guess you could call it a needle, Oley," she told him. "An ice +needle." + +Oley instinctively waited until Momma's back was turned before taking +the nice neatle to try its biting powers; and instinctively took it out +of the kitchen before starting his experiments. + +As he passed the cellar door he heard a soft gurgling and promptly +changed course. Pulling open the door with difficulty, he seated himself +on the cellar stairs to watch a delightful new spectacle--frothing, +gurgling water making its way across the floor towards the stairs. It +looked wonderfully dirty and brown, and to Oley it was an absorbing +phenomenon. It never occurred to him to tell Momma. + +Suddenly above him the cellar door slammed open, and Poppa came charging +down the stairs, narrowly missing the small figure, straight into the +rising waters, intent, though Oley couldn't know it, on reaching the +drain pipe in the far corner of the cellar to plug it before water from +the spring rains could back up farther and really flood the cellar out. + +Halfway across the cellar, Poppa reached up and grasped the dangling +overhead light to turn it on, in order to see his way to the drain--and +suddenly came to frozen, rigid, gasping stop as his hand clamped firmly +over the socket. + +Little Oley watched. There was juice in the cellar. Poppa had hold of an +electric. Was Poppa trying to make the shorts he needed? + +Oley wasn't sure. He thought it probable. And from the superior +knowledge of his four years, Oley already knew a better way to make +shorts. Neatles make good shorts. Juice don't do so well. + +Suddenly, Oley decided to prove his point: Nice neatles probably made +even better shorts than other neatles--and there was a big electric +running up the side of the stairs--an electric fat enough to make a real +good shorts. Maybe lots of shorts. + +Raising his nice neatle, Oley took careful aim and plunged it through +the 220-volt stove feeder cable. + + * * * * * + +Oley woke up. The strange pretty lady in white was a new experience. +Somebody he hadn't seen before. And there seemed to be something wrong +with his hand, but Oley hadn't noticed it very much, yet. + +"Well, my little Hero's awake! And how are you this morning? Your Momma +and Poppa will be in to see you in just a minute." + +The pretty lady in white went away, and Oley gazed around the white room +with its funny shape, happily recorded the experience, and dozed off +again. + +Then suddenly he was awakened again. Momma was there; and Poppa. And +Sven. But they all seemed different somehow this morning. Momma had been +crying, even though she was smiling bravely now. And Poppa seemed to +have a new softness that he'd seldom seen before. Sven was looking +puzzled. + +"I still say, Pop, that he's a genius. He _must_ have known what he was +doing." + +"Oley," Poppa's voice was husky--gruff, but kinder and softer than +usual. "I want you to answer me carefully. But understand that it's all +right either way. I just want you to tell me. Why did you put the ice +pick through the stove cable? You saved my life, you know. But I'd like +to know how you knew how." + +Little Oley grinned. His world was peaceful and wonderful now. And all +the big adults were bending and leaning down and talking to him. + +"Nice neatle," he said. "Big electric. Poppa needed shorts." + + + + +Transcriber's Note: + + This etext was produced from _Analog Science Fact & Fiction_ January + 1964. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. + copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and + typographical errors have been corrected without note. 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