Jump Flea
Published Sep 28, 2002
There once was a scientist doing an experiment on the distance fleas can jump. He had trained a flea to jump on command. The scientist would command the flea "Jump Flea!" and the flea would jump. Then the scientist would proceed to pull off one of the fleas many legs with a pair of tweezers and write a comment in his notebook about the distance the flea would jump.
The scientist did this many times until the flea had only one leg left. The scientist shouted "Jump Flea!" and the flea made it's best effort to jump, which the scientist recorded in his notebook.
After he pulled off its last leg, the scientist commanded the flea to jump, and after screaming the command many times without the flea responding he jotted down in his notebook,....
...."After the flea looses all of his legs it becomes completely deaf."
Originally published November 14, 2002.
