Posted on 08/15/2010 6:19:31 AM PDT by mattstat
Ambrose Bierce, as usual, summarized it best for us in the Devil’s Dictionary:
ACADEME, n. An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught.
ACADEMY, n. (from academe). A modern school where football is taught.
As evidence for the disheartening, inexorable slide into the abyss, we have this “essay”, supposedly written by a DePaul basketball player in his introductory writing course (be sure to read all of it):
Favorite Song
The topic I choose is number four because I like to listing to music especially the love songs because it gets you in the mode for a lot of things. It gets you in the sex mode or even just a chilling mode if you are just relating some where. Love songs some times help people in there relationships some times to because people tend to play songs that’s similar to what they are going through or how they might fill about that person but is afraid to tell the other person, so they let the song say how they really fill about that person.
I don’t really have just one love song I really like because I don’t really listing a lot of slow music. But I have a couple I do listing to when ever I am about to get in to that romance mode or just trying to relaxes in my room. One of the songs I will listing to if a lady friend is over is probably Pretty Ricky song, “Honey” because it sets the mode off right away.
Another song I like is R.Kelly, “filling on your booty”. Now this one is for the one night stand girls because it gets right to the point of what I want to go down....
(Excerpt) Read more at wmbriggs.com ...
I remember two “student” athletes at a big sports Iowa university who were arrested soon after robbing a fast food restaurant. Their arrest was facitated because the staff recognized them from their photos on a team calendar posted on the wall by the counter.
Mr. Briggs doesn’t write much better.
On another forum we have a lady asking for job advice. Her spelling and grammar is atrocious, especially when you see that she has a Masters Degree in Education.
I’m in the mode for love...
you’re not even listing.
Hopefully the real title is "feeling on your booty".
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