Jacob uses obscure words

Jacob’s approach is to just find ways to reference the objects on the table that he wants to use with words beginning with ‘s’, even if that means making them up.

He thus decides to use the “synthetic gloves”, as well as the “stweezers” and the “spape”.

Donning the gloves, Jacob pulls out a length of thread, and prepares to use the ‘stweezers’ on the thread, before stopping himself.

Jacob says that he’s been stupid, as he could just keep using his “sgloves” to thread the needle, which is what he does.

In the studio, Jacob produces a dictionary and says that even though he thought he’d made up ‘stweezers’ (what he actually says is “spincet”, since ‘pincet’ is the Danish word for tweezers), he’d actually found it in the dictionary.

Jacob reads the definition from his dictionary, which is just the definition of ‘tweezers’ with and added phrase stating that ‘stweezers’ are quite similar to tweezers.

At Lasse’s disbelief, Jacob hands the dictionary over to Thomas, who confirms that the definition is in fact in the dictionary.

Thomas is then able to recite what Jacob had read verbatim, because Jacob has simply taped a piece of paper in the dictionary with the definition of ‘stweezers’ written on it.

Lasse accepts Jacob’s attempt, though Jacob had taken 10 minutes and 10 seconds to thread his needle, and so he only earns last place anyway.

(Written by Jenny R and proofread by Karl Craven)

(Illustrations collected and adjusted by: David Fuller)