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18111. judithathome - 1/4/2006 9:24:38 PM For those of you in the USA, don't forget that postage rates go up to $.39 on Sunday. I had just finished putting $.37 stamps on 48 envelopes when someone on a another forum mentioned it. However, the $.02 stamps are lovely. 18112. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 1/5/2006 8:09:33 PM This kept me alive as a sub in an inner city grammar school when I first started teaching. I could say it and then challenge the kids to try it. The ensuing laughs broke the ice and disarmed them enough for me to start teaching. You have to speak it aloud in under four seconds to appreciate the effect of it.
One smart fellow, he felt smart.
Two smart fellows, they felt smart.
Three smart fellows, they all felt smart. 18113. Macnas - 1/5/2006 8:26:26 PM I'm not a pheasant plucker,
I'm a pheasant plucker's son.
And I'm only plucking pheasants
'till the pheasant plucker comes. 18114. arkymalarky - 1/6/2006 12:27:35 AM I''ve never heard Wiz's, but that's one I may use in my senior English class.
I've heard Mac's, and I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole. Except I learned it "fig plucker's." 18115. arkymalarky - 1/6/2006 12:29:08 AM Pheasants makes a lot more sense than figs. 18116. Ms. No - 1/6/2006 1:05:31 AM There was a segment on NPR last week or maybe only earlier this week about a woman in NY who teaches at an immigrant school. She was having a hard time getting the kids to do some particular English project and instead got them talking about tongue twisters and nursery rhymes they'd learned in their own languages. So behind the commentary she was doing there are these incredibly intricate sounding tongue-twisters and rhymes going on in different languages. It was really cool to hear. 18117. arkymalarky - 1/6/2006 1:29:04 AM I had the funniest thing happen at work today (something funny happens at least once every day, but this was different).
Our campus is multiple buildings fairly close together, and people walk on the grounds from building to building. I was heading from my building to another one, when a little boy started walking toward me from the cafeteria. He hollered "Hey!" and I didn't pay much attention, figuring he was hollering at someone else. After the third time, I said, "Are you talking to me?" He said, "Yes. Do you go to high school?" I said, "I teach high school." He asked my name and I told him. I asked what grade he was in and he said, "third." I told him I'd see him in about ten years. He was so cute. 18118. wabbit - 1/6/2006 4:03:59 PM I'm not the pheasant plucker
I'm the pheasant plucker's mate
And I only pluck the pheasants
when the pheasant plucker 's late. 18119. wabbit - 1/6/2006 4:07:40 PM My favorite tongue twister:
The sixth sick sheikh's sixth sheep's sick. 18120. Magoseph - 1/6/2006 4:41:17 PM Mine:
Un chasseur sachant chasser sait chasser sans son chien de chasse.
(A hunter who knows how to hunt knows how to hunt without his hunting dog.)
Le dandy dodelinant dodeline de la tête devant le dindon dodu
(The shaky foppish man shakes his head in front of the obese turkey.) 18121. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 1/6/2006 6:36:44 PM The big black bug, bled black blood! 18122. DanDillon - 1/6/2006 9:03:00 PM thoughful,
Thanks for your kind comments about my wife's work.
18123. wabbit - 1/6/2006 9:04:11 PM Hey DanD!
I just saw your wife's website, beautiful photos! Good to see you and hear that all is well with you and yours. 18124. thoughtful - 1/6/2006 9:39:05 PM I was a bit stunned the other day.
Making a long story short, events happened over xmas with a friend where with travel and all his daughter was in absolute tears because she thought Santa had forgotten her. Quick action on mother's part amended the situation...tears over..all was well.
The stunning part to me was this gal is 12! I don't recall exactly but I'm sure by about 7 I'd figured out that reindeer don't really fly, that fat old men don't really go down chimneys, and that there's no way one guy can cover the entire world's children in a single night with gifts, even if you limit it to just the xtian ones.
Does anyone else find this surprising? Or is it just me? 18125. arkymalarky - 1/7/2006 12:45:07 AM I think it's weird, unless she's home-schooled and has no peers.
On tongue-twisters, Wabbit's reminded me of one about a sheet slitter, but I can't remember it. I'm sure y'all can figure out the gist of it.
There's also the drinking one that starts "one duck...." 18126. Ms. No - 1/7/2006 12:45:42 AM Yeah, that does seem to be a bit long in the tooth to still believe so absolutely in Santa. I can't help wondering if it might cause problems for her with her peers.
I don't know how old she was, but my mother still believed in Santa after most of her schoolmates didn't. She refused to believe them when they told her and ended up asking her mother to write a letter saying that Santa was real....which broke my grandmother's heart because she just couldn't do it.
I think I was about 7 or 8 when I found out. We shared an apartment with one of my mother's college friends and her daughter, Jennifer. She was the one to break the news to my brother and I. It wasn't so bad for me since I kind of already suspected but my brother would only have been about 4. He didn't cry, but when he told my mom, she did.
We were in the grocery store checkout line and he saw some ad for a toy he wanted and my mom said "Well, you'd better put it on your list for Santa." and he said, "It's okay, Mommy, I know you're really Santa." And her eyes welled up with tears and he patted her and said "But we can still pretend. I promise I won't tell anybody!"
18127. arkymalarky - 1/7/2006 12:47:54 AM The homepage photo is stunning. Unfortunately my dialup wouldn't load the others, but it's faster at times, so I'm going to try again this weekend. 18128. judithathome - 1/7/2006 1:24:39 AM Twelve? Jeez, girls who are that old need to be watching Mary Martin sing "Santa Baby"!!! Or Eartha Kitt! 18129. thoughtful - 1/8/2006 5:31:00 PM Yeah, that's what I thought.
I don't remember how old I was but if I had to put it in chronological order, I'm sure my learning about Santa came BEFORE my period, not after!
No, she's not home schooled but goes to a very good public school...these folks live in a very expensive section of a very expensive town, and both husband and wife are well educated and making 6 figure incomes each. They aren't overly religious and while he's of a conservative bent having gone to UChic for his MBA, he's dumped all over W enough not to be considered a radical anything.
Perhaps the daughter is more like Ms No's mom or polly anna and just wants to avoid adulthood as long as possible.
I feel badly for the girl as she's just been diagnosed with severe scoliosis and is facing 18 hr days of being in a back brace for the next 18 mos...and that's the best prognosis. Otherwise it's heavy-duty back surgery. Not fun. Esp since she and her family are very athletic. And of course being that age, you really want to be normal and look your best. Not easy. 18130. wonkers2 - 1/8/2006 7:14:55 PM R con r cigarro,
R con r barril,
Cuatro carros cargados de ruedas
En el ferrocarril.
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