sniveling brats?
Not really. Bush’s actions on that day are the real picture. “My Pet Goat” jokes are a lagniappe. 
People quit hijacking, the OP has merely asked for the anti-Bush crowd’s children’s reading list suggestions. Why all the hostility?
I also had “A wrinkle in Time” read to me. Also “Treasure Island”, I forget what age I was. Honestly, The Pet Goat" has a pretty abismal moral. The goat can do whatever he likes as long as he butts bad guys in the ass? Sounds like someone I knows foreign policy.
;)(Oh, I’m sure someone’s said that already)
Any of these would do. A Wrinkle in Time made the banworthy list at #22.
Squink: Any of these would do.
Er, you may not have noticed that that’s a list of books that have been “challenged” in both school and general public libraries, so it includes a number of books not really suitable for children.
Unless you’re telling us that you would read to an elementary school class from A. N. Roquelaure’s S&M erotic novels The Sleeping Beauty Trilogy (#53 on the list) or The New Joy of Gay Sex (#28). My stars, that’s a little too permissive even for liberal ol’ me.
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Hopefully one of our Cajun Dopers can come along with a definitive answer, but isn’t “a lagniappe” redundant? I understand “langiappe” to mean “a little something extra”. So “a lagnaippe” would be “a a little something extra,” no? (I’d also imagine that it’s more correctly written “l’angiappe” - which would include the “a” part of that).
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Hey, “Heather has two mommies” is #11, so I’m way ahead of all of you. Although I wish I picked “Daddy’s roommate” (#2). But deep inside I crave for #19.
Yeah, it’s called “Get The Fuck Off Your Ass and Do Something - For Dummies”.
Munch, “lagniappe” is from “la ñapa”; see the etymology below. And I don’t see why we would have to omit an indefinite article (“a”) just because the word is derived from a foreign phrase that includes a definite article (“the”). Is it redundant to say “an alligator” because “alligator” comes from Spanish “el lagarto”, which has the definite article “el” in it?
Well, if he’d have been reading to them from The Anarchist’s Cookbook (#57), it would make a whole different kind of picture. Maybe not better, exactly. But different.
Thanks. And looking at my post, I have to :smack:, because it doesn’t include an “a”, it has a “the”. Or something. If anyone needs me, I’ll just be reading this here book…
From the list cited by Squink, I loved #25 “In the Night Kitchen” by Maurice Sendak. It’s gret fun, and would be age-appropriate. (The reason why it’s challenged is probably because the hero spends some of the time in the book lacking clothing. And that would be a reason why Dubya wouldn’t want to read it in public).
Perhaps in his opinion, he did NOT want to scare the children with talk of terrorist stuff, presenting a facade of normalcy KNOWING there was NOTHING he could do at that particular time to stop the attacks. I can remember a friend taking 10 minutes to finish reading a story to his daughter after being paged to go to Desert Storm. It might have been her last memory of him ever. Kudos to GWB for not scaring a class of kids.
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No one’s demanding that Dubya run from the room screaming and telling everyone to duck and cover. Is it not asking so much to do as Czarcasm mentioned above, and politely excuse himself from the room to get more information and do his job? For all he knew, staying in a classroom made that entire school a terrorist target.
Munch, to be honest, I just really like the word! I really only ever hear it in an informal setting, but when I hear it used it (mostly in New Orleans) it takes the article. Thanks to Kimstu for providing a smarter answer than I could.
Ahem.
You can do a search and find plenty of threads that have already addressed your post in mind-numbing repetition.
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But we all know that whatever the president had done, the usual gang of liberal idiots would have attacked him for it.
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New Isky’s a Liberal now? When’d that happen? :wally
And this is why he doesn’t get my vote. The first thing I look for in a presidential candidate is the ability and the willingness to scare young children.
:eek: You’re voting for Freddy Kruger? :eek:
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Actually, I was always a Liberal.
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[arrogantly]
Only one of those Liberals.
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