I didn’t say this out loud, but for a long time I thought there was a character on MAS*H named Corman, who they always called to come carry the stretcher. I kind of wondered why they never showed Corman or had a story about him.
And one day… :smack: OOOOHHH! “Corpsman”!
He carried the still living too.
Yes, but New York doesn’t. I’m assuming the conversation took place in the Eastern zone.
I realize that it is pretty silly. But it really does feel like you’re closer to the sun up there! :smack: That’s why we were always so willing to come down when somebody offered us a case of beer. 
So, too, do I wish I could blame this on your English teacher, but “curriculums” is fast replacing “curricula” as the plural of “curriculum”. C’est la vie americain.
Oops, I started my sentence with “so”. Off for my flogging, then. 
Um, maybe I just got whooshed. It’s not “corpsman” like “corpse man”. It’s Corpsman, like a member of the Army or Navy Corps. No “ps” sound; sounds like “core”.
What happened to the whole “Can you understand what they meant, if so what’s the problem” shtick? 
yeah - it was an intentonal ‘woosh’ since that is how I have heard people say that word - thinking exactly what I said.
Had to disabuse someone of the fact that munching on live monkey brains via the mechanism of said live monkey clamped in the middle of a table as portrayed in Indiana Jones movies is not, as one might have guessed, TRUFAX SRSLY.
Brains is meant to be dead before noshing. Unless one happens to be of the zombie persuasion, thanks much.
I agree with you completely. I took a few graduate level courses to complete an Alternate Route Teaching Certification program as a secondary career option and I intended to teach English. I whole heartedly agree that a teacher cannot undo the grammatical damage that a child is consistantly exposed to in the home.
I just found the comment to be both sad and amusing.
You could’ve also disabused them of the notion that anyone was portrayed as munching on live monkey brains in an Indiana Jones movie, period. The monkeys in question were quite dead when their brains were munched. The brains were chilled, in fact, although they were served in the monkeys’ heads.
I could’ve sworn the monkeys in question were live. Hmm. This leads me to the question of whether I should subject myself to viewing of the blonde chick from the movie again in order to fight ignorance on this point.
Let me spare you the anguish with a picture of the monkey head in a bowl.
It’s still there. Hence why I ended the post in a resigned sigh rather than indignation: there’s nothing objectively wrong with saying “curriculums”, it just caught my attention in a negative way. There’s nothing contradictory about that.
Not heard, but just read on a local message board. A mom was posting about the Hannah Montana concert, where, apparently, Hannah was “lip singing.”
I thought about explaining to her (and the others who used that phrase) what lip-sync means, but it would be less painful to beat my head against a block wall.
[Nelson Muntz]Ha, ha![/NM]
Just had to bring this one up again, because I thought it was so ridiculous at the time. The thread I put it in generated no response to it, so maybe people expect other people to be dumber than I expect them to be? Hard to believe…
Well, it was on TV, but was a moment of such monumental stupidity that it has to be registered here.
On a tv show from Argentina (interviews, performances, all that crap) the Clueless Hostess is interviewing a paleontologist.
Paleontologist: “… we have recently found a dinosaur in the…”
CH interrpts: “A live one?”
The simultaneous forehead slapping of millions of people in front of their TVs was recorded in seismographic charts all across the southern hemisphere.
Double post, sorry.
I was teaching a business calculus course.
The college had a day before final exams as a review day. I held class at the regular time for anyone to come in and ask questions.
For this class, about a fourth showed up. I was doing some problems that were requested when one student shot up his hand and asked…
“I’ve been meaning to ask…what is that s-shaped squiggly thing for?”
{He was talking about the integral sign}
From just one question, I knew that he was going to a) fail the class and b) learned absoultely nothing.
:eek:
Missed that the first time around. Both the bit you posted and the bit you quoted were of such mind-numbing stupidity that my jaw is still, literally, on the floor. See, it’s right there, next to the trash can.
Did that take place in Connecticut?
How one can survive in the US without know what all the states are is beyond me.