And “brought” instead of “brough”.
Free range eggs? So the farmer has to know about or hunt down where the the chickens have randomly nested and take the eggs from these scattered indoor and outdoor nests before the foxes and rodents get them?
Maybe it’s just me but I’d have a hard time believing that there’s not a well maintained “coop” involved somewhere.
Regarding the eggs/vegetarian thing…
I am an ovo-lacto vegetarian. Most people who call themselves “vegetarian” fall into this category. As Kyla said, those who don’t eat any animal products at all are called vegan. The reason I eat eggs (though I very rarely eat them) is that they aren’t dead things that were once alive. I wouldn’t eat a fertilized egg, but I’ll eat an unfertilized one. When I get my own house, I’d like to have a pair of hens as pets and to provide humane eggs 
Until senior year, I thought Stanford was in New England.
In third grade or so, I looked at a poster of the presidents and was amazed that there were more than eight or so.
Many people I know insist moths are all male and butterflies are all female. Many of these people are adults. One of these same people insisted also that goats are boys and sheep are girls.
jb
I wonder what they thought goat milk and goat cheese were… On second thought, don’t answer that :rolleyes:.
Of course when I was in fourth grade, and tried to make bread, the recipe called for “one package of yeast.” At the time, my mom was regularly shopping at COSTCO (a bulk foods warehouse). Our “packages” of yeast were about five pounds each.
[stooges]We ALL put the yeast in![/stooges]
jb,
nyuk nyuk nyuk
Someone post more stories!
I’ve got a few tidbits.
-I am constantly correcting the misuse of “good” and “well”
-I am in high school, and every few minutes will hear a student substitute several "like"s and a poor word for a perfect slightly larger word
Here’s the real important one.
Most adults I know seem to be ignorant of the facts that adults are not better than “kids”, that “kids” deserve to be treated equally, and that “kids” are just as intelligent as any adult. I have read articles in kid-based magazines about mistreatment in stores:
-being watched disapprovingly by employees
-having to wait until all the adults have made their purchases to be served
-being given less than the proper change and having to pay full price on sale items.
I have personally witnessed another double standard. Adults are apparently allowed to interrupt a conversation between an adult and a kid, but children must wait until two adults are finished speaking.
I even have a teacher who has expressly and publicly stated that he believes he is better than all of his students because he is older, and, under the same conditions, agreed that he was a bigot. I was ejected from his classroom for telling him not to condescend to me.
It seems to me that children are being given treatment similar to (but less harsh) than that given to
African-Americans before the Civil Rights Movement.
If anyone else has any stories in the same vein, let me know.
Sounds like they had watched the “Star Trek” episode “Bread and Circuses”. :D:D
And I hope you’re kidding. It’s duct tape, as in heating/air conditioning ducts.
How about employment ads that were looking for people with 7 years experience with Windows 95 in 1998. Sounds more like they need people who passed 1[sup]st[/sup] grade math.
Oh, you cruel b@$+@rd! :D:D
I did a similar thing to my roommate and his girlfriend. They were watching some movie in the living room. I had my omniremote in my bedroom, and I barely had a line-of-sight to the VCR down there. But I’d let them get comfortable, then stop their movie. He’d fumble with the remote, get the movie going, then bury it so that it wouldn’t inadvertantly do whatever it was doing again. It was only after I couldn’t contain my laughter that he caught on. :D:D
Not to mention the 300-some murder victims each year. If only they were members of Congress. :D:D
Maybe you’d told your sisters (telepathically, like you multiple-birth people can), “You two go out the front, I’ll go out the side.” :D:D
I had a co-worker who was Danish. He was asking me about the western US (I grew up in Colorado), and specifically the city of Fernicks.
“Furnace?” I asked.
“No, Fernicks, AZ, where the Cardinals play.”
“Ah, Phoenix!” I realized. He was using the Germanic pronounciation, where “oe” sounds more like “er”. He was embarassed, but I assured him that it was understandable, since English was such a mishmash of languages.
I was more impressed that he followed US sports like football and baseball. He once asked why Americans seemed upset that Toronto had won the World Series. I jokingly looked flustered and exclaimed, “Cuz it’s just wrong!” :D:D
Reminds me of a “Laugh In” skit where a cavewoman trys to explain to her caveman husband where she got eggs and milk from.
I don’t know what YMMV stands for. But I see it on the boards all the time. Any help?
Your Mileage May Vary.
I was about ten years old, and my teacher was telling us the basics about astronomy. Apparently, the sun is 3 times bigger than the earth. I told her I’d read that if the earth was the size of a pea, the sun would be the size of a beach ball. She said the book was wrong.
When I was even younger (7/8) I often corrected another teacher’s spelling but that might have been more to do with me being a cocky little git at the time.
A devout Catholic I know strongly believes people ‘decide to be gay because they’re too ugly to get a girlfriend’.
You might have heard of the spoon game. This supposedly involves hitting your opponent on the head with a spoon from behind whilst holding it in your mouth. Those in the know take it out and hit the opponent really hard then make a big show of pain when the victim has his turn. One guy I know never figured it out and thought he was the champion for months before someone told him.
Did I kill it?
Yes