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Commentary on "A Tragic Biochemist"

There are a few points which should be commented on here; firstly Robert Harington is now married, so there must be at least one woman who is magnetised south; secondly I am perplexed by this statement about sheep being magnetic. To try to gain insight into this phenomenon, I conducted an experiment where I placed some sheep in a swimming pool to see which direction they pointed in when they settled down (and, god knows, this took long enough). I noted the following results:

Angelica: ESE
Arabella: NExN
Belladonna: Drowned (unfortunately)
Esmarelda: NxW
Lulubelle: NW
Madonna: SExS
Samantha: SE
Trixiebelle: WSW
Virginia: N

As one may see, one can hardly say that they all pointed North, so this notion of sheep being magnetised does seem to be just a trifle preposterous (CH).