Failed Genius Gifts

Chapter 3. Andrew's scheme backfires.

"I'll bet all of Albert Einstein's teachers felt like idiots for giving him bad grades too."

"We're playing doctor. Do you have any old magazines for our waiting room?"

'It was bound to happen - they're beginning to think like binary computers.'

Yound Einstein disproves an early theory: 'Aha! A watched pot DOES boil!'

"Ah, ha! The universe IS expanding! I can't find my glasses anywhere!"

"I hear you've been doing exciting things with eggs and dye."

Artist and Musician

'The school. My counselor told me to make the most of it...'

'I have a feeling one day when he grows up he'll be an artist of some kind.'

Work colleague says 'This is great, where do you get your ideas from?' as man gets them from small elves living in the wall

Atlas with the earth, says: 'So then I thought, Why not just roll the damn thing?'

"There's an app that helped me finish grades 3 through 7. If you need me, I'll be in my room playing video games for the next few years."

'The kids just love doing paint by numbers.'

"But some of my best ideas come while I'm in the litter box."

"I'm enhancing my appreciation for the knowledge gathered by humankind."

'You know creativity involves a high tolerance for failure, don't you?'

All work and no play makes jack a dough boy.

"Now we know who'll be taking care of us in our old age."

Making snowmen with a snowblower.

'I know, but he's a genius.'

A man stealing another person's ideas

'Is that computer, down there, the one you were having problems with?'

"Hey, this is brilliant! Where do you get my ideas?"

'Damn sea monkeys.'

"Summer's coming. How does pre-med camp sound."

An artist blows smoke that forms into a cloud which rains onto his canvas.

"Think of it -- you'd never have to fold another shirt."

'Leonardo's Lament' - 'I have nothing to do.'

"I didn't learn anything in school today but I'll learn twice as much tomorrow."

"Ok, let's sneak up on Mr. Canvas and see if we can make a good impression."

Palm Reader...

National #@*&%!$@? Tourettes Institute *&%!$

'My website? Oh, it was a bit of a one hit wonder.'

'I love you and your father loves you. Now go paint a masterpiece.'