Charles Spencelayh, English
Top 100 All-Time Worst Business Ideas (#46): Build-A-Barometer Workshops, ca. 1933
Oil on wood
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/// He could watch them for hours on his table.
Little silvery blobs that were able,
to combine and divide
as he brushed them aside.
But his grandkids thought Pops was unstable.
/// Pops’ barometer “fix” came a cropper;
without mercury “it won’t work proper.”
How to not muck it up…
with a straw suck it up?
No, he’s going to need an eyedropper.