If you’ve only ever seen a newborn on TV, then you’ve never really seen a newborn. Think about it–they usually can’t really plan filming around whatever pregnant lady may or may not be in the area and ready to pop. Most TV “newborns” are usually weeks–or even months–old. But if you never noticed that before, [...]
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Five Gross Things You Might Not Know About Babies and Childbirth
Posted in Humor, tagged babies, childbirth, pregnancy on May 23, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Mean Mr. Huston
Posted in Education, Humor on May 14, 2012 | 3 Comments »
A student turned in a reading response journal a while back, supposedly picking apart an article I’d provided for that purpose. He didn’t like it. At one point, he wrote, “You made me read two pages of awful writing filled with weak arguments.” I was tempted to write in the margin, “I know how you [...]
Colon Woah!
Posted in Humor, tagged Colon Blow, Colon Flow, Phil Hartman, Saturday Night Live on May 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I recently saw a TV ad for a product called Colon Flow, which says it does just what you think it would. I love it when real life defies satire. The ad reminded me of that great Phil Hartman parody on Saturday Night Live for a cereal called Colon Blow, which supposedly had the same [...]
Must Be Fourth Quarter…
Posted in Education, Humor, tagged CCSD, Las Vegas on April 26, 2012 | 1 Comment »
It’s probably not a good thing if the most popular page on your school district’s web site is the one that teachers use to say that they’re not coming in to work today…
Annual Rituals
Posted in Education, Humor, tagged CCSD, Las Vegas, newspaper, teachers, unions on April 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Ah, Spring. Birds are chirping, flowers are blooming, allergy sufferers are sneezing. Also, in another cycle of nature for this time of year, the local newspapers are piling on scary stories about the teachers’ union vs. the school district, where the outcome this time will certainly be massive teacher layoffs, horrific student deprivation in a [...]
Two Thoughts on Prometheus
Posted in Arts, Humor, Random, tagged George A. Romero, movies, Prometheus, Ridley Scott, summer movies, zombies on March 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I am very excited about Ridley Scott’s Prometheus. With the arrival of the full trailer, however, I am left with two big questions: 1. When will mankind learn? When you find an artifact or message from an alien civilization, going to find them on their home planet is a BAD IDEA. Something will go wrong, [...]
Basically the Same Trick in Chinese and English
Posted in Humor, Language and Literature, tagged Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo, Chinese, English, homonyms, homophones, Mandarin, shi on March 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I recently saw this posting online. Even though the Mandarin Chinese word “shi” is used below with four different tones of pronunciation, the same tone can still have multiple meanings. Obviously, then, very common syllables in Chinese, like “shi,” can have tons of homonyms. Thus, this. I regret to say that the only words I [...]
Celebrating the Mad Magazine Fold-In
Posted in Humor, tagged Al Jaffee, fold-in, Mad Magazine on March 14, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Honors have been pouring in recently for Al Jaffee, the 91-year-old comic genius who has been drawing the fold-in inside the back cover of Mad Magazine every month for over half a century. Jaffee’s been lauded lately in outlets such as CNN and the Wall Street Journal. I collected dozens of Mad Magazines as a [...]
Conservative Commentary in Monty Python’s Life of Brian
Posted in Humor, Politics and Society, tagged imperialism, Life of Brian, Monty Python, satire on March 10, 2012 | 1 Comment »
How telling that common sense satire, so subversive 30 years ago, is now so contrary to political correctness that it may well now constitute a hate crime. Here, we see the logical failure of sexual identity politics in the real world, and the juvenile futility of the anti-imperialism bandwagon.
Just Another Excuse to Talk About Aardvarks
Posted in Education, Humor on January 25, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Sometimes, school work will include questions where the correct answer is “none.” For example, “Identify any subordinate clauses in this sentence: The movie was too long.” Today, I started telling my classes that workbook assignments that ask them to write “none” as the answer to a question are boring. Instead, I asked them to start [...]
Occupy Camelot
Posted in Humor, Politics and Society, tagged Monty Python, Occupy Wall Street on January 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Big Sister Gets Pwned
Posted in Humor, Random on January 10, 2012 | 2 Comments »
At our dinner table last night: Big Sister (7): I know five people named Ashley. Little Brother (6): Well, I know ten people named Ashley. Big Sister: Oh yeah? Name them. Little Brother (counting on his fingers): Ashley, Ashley, Ashley, Ashley, Ashley, Ashley, Ashley, Ashley, Ashley, and Ashley!
The Night Before Christmas
Posted in Humor, tagged Jim Meskimen on December 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
FAIL Vote
Posted in Humor, tagged FAIL on November 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Vote your conscience, America. Epic Fail: Cast Your Vote for the Top Fails of 2011
Occupy Anthem?
Posted in Humor, Politics and Society, tagged I Want It All, Occupy Wall Street, Queen on November 30, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Like ‘em or not, this seems to capture the essence of the Occupy movement’s manifesto:
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