Gizmo @ BMI"Professor Gizmo's Invention Show" is a fifty minute show and tell demonstration of inventions old and new, featuring the energetic, if slightly daffy, Professor Gizmo. The professor finds, fixes, and reinvents all manner of things broken and curious. His work is imaginative and often unsuccessful, though through his failures, he perseveres, undaunted and often discovers or invents something quite unexpected in the process. The show is geared to children K-5, and is a travelling musical show, going out to many elementary schools in Baltimore and the surrounding counties. Performances are also given occasionally at the Baltimore Museum of Industry. In the show, I play Dudley, the professor's well meaning,but often ineffectual apprentice, who lives by the motto, "If at first you don't succeed..."


 The NO Rules

no hittin’ no kickin’ no pushin’ no yellin’
no bitin’ no pinchin’ no cussin’ no tellin’
no grabbin’ no scratchin’ & no pokin’ fun
& no quittin’ until a project is done

no snipin’ no gripin’ no callin’ names
no stealin’ no squealin’ no cheatin at games’
no tantrums no fussin’ no fumin’ no mopin’
no standin’ with the ‘frigerator door open

no secrets no starin’ & no gangin’ up
no callin’ on telephones & then hangin’ up
no makin’ faces no stickin’ out tongues
no screamin’ and shoutin’ at the top of your lungs

no throwing toys no makin’ mean rhymes
no asking the same question 1000’s of times
no leaving shoes and clothes lying around
no doing that mouth thing and making that sound

no pointin’ no lyin’ no buttin’ in line
no teasin’ no squeezin’ no saying “mine”
no getting crazy when everything’s calm
no standing in the kitchen and yelling for mom

no sayin’ “gimme” no yankin’ a hood
no starin’ at TV when the weather is good
no breaking a promise no throwing a punch
no going swimming right after lunch

no playin’ with matches no foolin’ with knives
no fightin’ in back seats while somebody drives
no peekin’ no sneakin’ around the back door
these are some of the no rules
(but I’m sure there are more...)

 

EMWjr ‘99

 
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