Ah, come on. I know you could all write entertainingly about the inside of a ping pong ball if asked to do so.
When you have a professor who is as mad as a bag of badgers for a father, it is difficult to avoid his eccentricities rubbing off on you, and young Mary certainly was her father’s daughter. As a teenager, she would spend hours in her father’s laboratory bringing cartoon characters to life and trying various substances to help medicine descend more smoothly. His early death – plummeting from a London rooftop carrying only a black umbrella - inspired the young Mary to perfect the parasol-o-copter, though its commercial success was limited due to the variability of wind direction in these islands. She is also credited with discovering portals to other dimensions in pavement drawings and perfecting the art of levitation through telling bad jokes. However, a raunchy love affair with a fake Cockney caused her to give up her pursuit of science and become a nanny.
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