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Can fart jokes help boys catch girls in reading?
(I apologize for the headline)
The Associated Press ^
| 7-21-2010
| LEANNE ITALIE
Posted on 07/21/2010 9:39:17 AM PDT by Daveinyork
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The coarsening of American culture
To: Daveinyork
Today’s girls are more likely to read, while boys are more likely to waste time with video games.
To: Daveinyork
Can fart jokes help boys catch girls in reading? (I apologize for the headline)You should apologize. Boys catching girls, imagine! I'm outraged! ;-)
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posted on
07/21/2010 9:42:36 AM PDT
by
rhombus
To: Daveinyork
Kids will read if what they are reading is interesting to them. Most of the stuff in elementary is feminized, to the point of being boring.
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posted on
07/21/2010 9:43:15 AM PDT
by
svcw
(True freedom cannot be granted by any man or government, only by Christ.)
To: Daveinyork
No, but porno literature will close the gap and fast.
To: Daveinyork
Why would a guy want to read “The sisterhood of the traveling pants?”
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posted on
07/21/2010 9:43:45 AM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Nancy Pelosi did more damage to America on 03/21 than Al Qaeda did on 09/11)
To: Daveinyork
Pull my finger!
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posted on
07/21/2010 9:44:21 AM PDT
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
((B.?) Hussein (Obama?Soetoro?Dunham?) Change America Will Die From.)
To: Daveinyork
I have to confess my guilt here.
It took “Captain Underpants” to get my kids reading when they were in First Grade.
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posted on
07/21/2010 9:44:25 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Retired Greyhound
If you assume video games are actually a waste of time.
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posted on
07/21/2010 9:45:21 AM PDT
by
svcw
(True freedom cannot be granted by any man or government, only by Christ.)
To: svcw
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posted on
07/21/2010 9:45:33 AM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Nancy Pelosi did more damage to America on 03/21 than Al Qaeda did on 09/11)
To: Daveinyork
Not really. Fart jokes have been around for millenia.
(Historical Time Machine)
Moses to a fellow Jew in the exodus “Oy vey! Poool my finger!”
Krishna to a fellow Hindu during the Mahabharata war “Golly me.. pulll my little finger”
St. Thomas to a fellow spectator “I seriously doubt you could pull my finger”
Raquel Welch to the Pope.. those are NOT the buoys! .. oh sorry different joke topic
To: Daveinyork
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posted on
07/21/2010 9:45:58 AM PDT
by
Nervous Tick
(Eat more spinach! Make Green Jobs for America!)
To: Daveinyork
Oh, I dunno.
As a kid, I read every single word on that pink Whoopee Cushion.
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posted on
07/21/2010 9:46:05 AM PDT
by
Tigerized
(pursuingliberty.com)
To: Daveinyork
"Boys have lagged behind girls in reading achievement for more than 20 years,"
By all means, don't figure out what changed in the public school system and fix it.
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posted on
07/21/2010 9:47:12 AM PDT
by
Psycho_Bunny
(Hail To The Fail-In-Chief)
To: Daveinyork
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posted on
07/21/2010 9:47:42 AM PDT
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: Daveinyork
Horrible Histories - Terry Dreary (Don’t let the last name fool you) - got my reluctant reader reading. Lots of fun gross stuff & stuff about history.
Also, The Lightening Thief series. Good boy stuff.
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posted on
07/21/2010 9:47:50 AM PDT
by
KosmicKitty
(WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
To: dfwgator
Darling Daughter really took off when she discovered Harry Potter (She was the first in her cohort to do so, and actually resented the Johnnie-come-latelies who “are only into it because it is popular”!)
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posted on
07/21/2010 9:49:23 AM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 543 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
To: Daveinyork
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posted on
07/21/2010 9:49:34 AM PDT
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: Daveinyork
Forget fart jokes. The key is Pokemon. My son will devour anything and anything written about Pokemon.
To: Daveinyork
I blame my fellow white men for surrendering to the Gynocratic Dictatorship 35 years ago or so. For all the whining here about the “elite” (who are not) or illegal aliens, the FEMALES who dominate our educational/therapeutic establishment have devalued and emasculated males and dumbed us down.
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posted on
07/21/2010 9:50:35 AM PDT
by
Clemenza
(Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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