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02-15-2005, 09:52 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2001 Location: Los Angeles | | | One of my students at Cal State Fullerton just emailed me to aplogize about missing the first class and any incontinence she might have caused me.
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02-15-2005, 10:24 AM
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02-15-2005, 10:26 AM
|  | Student of Life Forum Administrator | | Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Louisville, KY | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by mpm One of my students at Cal State Fullerton just emailed me to aplogize about missing the first class and any incontinence she might have caused me. |
Holy ****, her statement almost became a self-fulfilling prophecy in my case, laughing so hard was I. |
02-15-2005, 11:14 AM
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Originally Posted by Steve Killingsworth I think the ultimate problem is one of reading--or perhaps I should say the lack of reading. | Steve, check out a book called "Why Johnny Can't Write" by Arthur Whimbey. He speaks very convincingly about just what you were talking about. Not surprisingly, he's also got a book called "Why Johnny Can't Read".
Personally, if we truly used outcome based education I suspect we'd probably be better off. The problem is that the student OR the teacher isn't held accountable for any outcomes until the student is 5 or 6 years down the road; then who do you blame? We've managed to pass these students on and it becomes someone else's problem and the finger pointing starts.
Whew....sorry about the rant. |
02-15-2005, 11:21 AM
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Originally Posted by andronitoons Whew....sorry about the rant. |
I didn't mean to go off like dat. I ain't gonna dooo it again...I gotta go eat sum saah-sage or sumpin'. 
Last edited by andronitoons : 02-15-2005 at 02:39 PM.
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02-15-2005, 11:23 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2001 Location: St. Louis, MO USA | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Chris Fitzgerald . . . laughing so hard was I. |
Ladies and Gentleman, please welcome to the Talkbass stage:
YODA! |
02-16-2005, 03:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: New Albany, MS | | | An Okie saying:
Fixin' to: This means you are about to do something.
Even more annoying is that after 14 years here, it is starting to seep into my usage. I caught myself saying on the phone to a friend; "I've gotta go; I'm fixin' to load the car up for my gig."
Sigh.....
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02-16-2005, 03:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Chasarms Ladies and Gentleman, please welcome to the Talkbass stage:
YODA! |
I hadn't thought of that! But I'm convinced by his speech patterns that the little dude was actually a German immigrant with a skin problem... |
02-16-2005, 09:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Monte An Okie saying:
Fixin' to: This means you are about to do something.
Even more annoying is that after 14 years here, it is starting to seep into my usage. I caught myself saying on the phone to a friend; "I've gotta go; I'm fixin' to load the car up for my gig."
Sigh..... | Don't worry. They're fixin' to do plenty in Tennessee as well. I is a personal favorite of mine.
Often "fixin' ", but other times "ah-fixin' "
See y'all tomorrow. I'm ah fixin' to go to bed!! |
02-18-2005, 12:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Oshawa, Ontario, Canada | | | Damn, how did I miss this thread for so long? Too funny... and true...
Printed in a local newspaper:
Eye halve a spelling chequer,
It came with my pea sea.
It plainly marques for my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a ward,
and weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write,
It shows me strait aweigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid,
It nose bee fore two long,
An eye can putt the error rite,
Its rare lea ever wrong!
Eye halve run this poem threw it,
I am shore your pleased to no.
Its letter prefect awl the weigh.
My chequer tolled me sew.
Maybe if we all relied a little more on our command of the language and a little less on Spellcheck...
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