Posted on 06/14/2013 4:52:35 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
How many stars on the American flag? You’re guessing “a lot.”
Can dolphins communicate? You think, of course they can. They’re a footbal team, they have to communicate.
The three states of water? You guess Oregon, for sure, because it’s rainy there.
Gravity? You wonder what’s the big deal about gravity? If something is heavy, it’ll fall.
A camel can walk a long way without what? A map?
The language Shakespeare wrote in? You’re thinking French? Maybe Shakesperean.
When multiplying 6 x 7, you need a calculator. But you can’t think of any good reasons for doing this.
A rolling stone gathers no moss? Okay, but why would it want to?
People asked, where’s Alaska and you said, off the coast of California. You saw it on a map. Alaska was in a box near San Diego.
Name two oceans? 11 and 12.
Which came first, the Supremes or the Supreme Court? You’re not sure. You want to know if that’ll be on a test.
Clouds are made of what? Smoke.
How many feet in a mile? Dude, seriously, what’s the point?
You appeared on Jay Leno’s Jaywalking and couldn’t answer his dumb questions.
You can’t read your diploma.
You have really high self-esteem.
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2. To Anacreon in Heaven, written in about 1771
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydAIdVKv84g
Don’t laugh. Back in my day when we did learn something in school, a nearby school’s “highest ranking girl” was from the special ed (as it was known) class. There was a big stink until people realized it was a tiny little school and she was the only girl in the class.
At my school, the coach started an affair with a 6th grader and eventually married her after she graduated. The priest also had an affair with a girl, got her pg and quit the Church to marry her. A hot young middle school teacher had after school sessions with the HS football team. The list goes on and on. The school scandals of today are nothing new.
The national language of Austria is Austrian.
Count...one, two...five...ten...
If you ask my Austrian relatives what language they speak, that’s what they’ll tell you. (Well, Austro-Bavarian.)
FWIW there was a very pretty (a rare commodity) nun who taught chemistry at my high school. After completion of my freshman year, she didn’t return the next year. Word was she ran off with a chemistry salesman who supplied the school with products. No “they must have had the right chemistry” jokes please.
Preacher: I have kings with an ace!
Evil Roy Slade: I have threes with a gun.
Preacher: You win!
Marine combat medics are corpsemen...
Good point, sarcastic, but valid, I should have had my secretary or one of my daughters proof it.
Okay, sorry, I thought this was an Obama gaffe.
Meh, prolly was. Obama doesn’t know my kooky uncles ;^)
I have a PhD in a life science.
I can do fairly complex math calculations in my head (it impresses people).
I figured out mathematics up to calculus by the time I was 11.
There is no way I could answer your question #1. Learning history is a matter of rote memorization, a skill I was never good at.
However, I can do a pretty good job of playing the 1812 Overture in my head, complete with cannon shots.
If a kid can’t demonstrate good math or English skills by the time they graduate HS, then they went to a crappy school. And yes, I made a conscious decision to use the plural “they” as a singular pronoun, so as to avoid the awkward “he or she” terminology.
Why not, is it that the Lord Jesus is not amongst the top three or is it that you have no heroes or heroines in your life?
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