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I have to share today’s dose of stupid, from one of my favorite people in the world: my husband. I married him partly 'cause he’s not stupid, but we all have our days.
We were in the car jamming out to CCR’s “Proud Mary”. He did a mental :smack:
“This song is about a river boat!”
Me: "Are you for real? You just figured that out?
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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.
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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”!
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[QUOTE=brewha]
Wait, doesn’t FL cover two time zones? When I lived in Panama City, I was in Central time, but IIRC, I was about 20 miles from Eastern.
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Yes, but New York doesn’t. I’m assuming the conversation took place in the Eastern zone.
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I don’t dispute that it’s hotter’n blazes working on the roof in the summer in the sun. I just had to laugh about his “being closer to the sun” comment.
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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.
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He carried the still living too.
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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”.
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect]
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.
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What happened to the whole “Can you understand what they meant, if so what’s the problem” shtick?
[QUOTE=WhyNot]
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”.
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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.
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I wish I could blame this on the English teacher, but the English curriculums that I see do not focus heavily on grammar (unless it is an ESL course). What happens, especially if the child does not read, is that the child picks up the parents speech. I was appalled, and voiced my opinion, of the grammar and spelling on papers that were posted in my daughter’s middle school as “excellent work”. I just received a nasty look from the teacher.
(My daughter has stopped asking my to proofread papers because I look at grammar and spelling in addition to content. She is queen of the run-on sentence, and holds another title in extraneous words. She is especially fond of starting sentences with “So”.)
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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.
[QUOTE=lizardling]
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
[QUOTE=lizardling]
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.
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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.
[QUOTE=D_Odds]
(My daughter has stopped asking my to proofread papers because I look at grammar and spelling in addition to content. She is queen of the run-on sentence, and holds another title in extraneous words. She is especially fond of starting sentences with “So”.)
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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.
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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…
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: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.
