User talk:Raymond arritt/AGFchallenge

Some decades ago a Dutch physician named Joost van Puntenslijper was in the habit of tucking his pencil behind his ear, as many people do. One day the good Dr. van P. noticed that some shavings from the pencil had accidentally fallen in his ear. He decided to leave them there rather than risk damage to his eardrum by using a tool to remove them, and being sick with the flu he didn't feel up to the bother anyway. A few days later he noticed that his flu symptoms had disappeared. Looking back, he wondered if the pencil shavings had anything to do with it. When his wife came down with the flu he decided to try slipping a few pencil shavings in her ear, and incredibly enough her flu symptoms also disappeared in a few days. Dr. van P. experimented further on himself and a few close friends. He found that shavings from common yellow pencils worked well for common diseases. Shavings from red pencils were best for disorders of the blood, shavings from blue pencils were best for emotional distress, and so on. He published his results in a small pamphlet and slipped into obscurity.