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Owning Two of a Certain Object Indicates Your Kids Will Do Well in School. Can You Guess What It Is?
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Posted on 07/18/2013 11:58:56 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch

In the original Miami Vice television series, Detective Zito is murdered in Season Three. After learning of his death, co-cops Crockett, Tubbs and Switek visit his house, where they discover Zito's collection of snow globes. They look at them in bewilderment, and the clear message delivered by their faces—in as ham-fisted a way as only '80s American television can do it—is "Wow, I guess we didn't really know this guy at all." Cue violins. An as hackneyed as that moment was, it was the first time your adolescent correspondent understood the usage of physical objects as a narrative device in storytelling.

Years later in ID school, professors who apparently knew each other as well as Zito and Switek delivered conflicting messages on this front. One professor would tell you that "Objects exist to tell stories—they tell us about ourselves!" while others said objects were mere intermediaries that we should design to be unobtrusive; the whole "People don't want a toaster, they just want toast" mentality.

It's easy to see the ... that a child from that family would do well in school.

Any guesses as to what that object is? A computer? A television? An iPad?

What if we told you it's a piece of furniture?

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To: wideawake

Crap. All of it.

Just kidding. :)


101 posted on 07/18/2013 2:26:23 PM PDT by Borges
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To: BwanaNdege

I’m working on my list.

“Wideawake” has just made me look totally illiterate, but here goes my first eleven. The order has no significance

Pocket Ref - Thomas J Glover
Language in Thought & Action - S.I. Hayakawa
The Bible -KJV
The Bible -(NIV, ESV, NASB. Whichever contemporary version with which you are comfortable)
The Jungle Books (Vol 1 &2) -Kipling
Trustee from the Toolroom -Nevil Shute
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
Eat the Rich - P.J. O’Rourke
Edge of the Anvil - Jack Andrews
How to Grow More Vegetables - John Jeavons
Westminster Shorter Catechcism


102 posted on 07/18/2013 2:33:13 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize"- Voltaire)
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To: mware

Mware, your father sounds like my kind of dad - mine read to us every night after dinner. There were classics like The Swiss Family Robinson, Treasure Island and the like, and lots of science fiction - mostly Asimov. He started when we were in elementary school and continued until he died when I was in my mid teens. A cherished memory indeed! And my brother and I are still both avid readers to this day.


103 posted on 07/18/2013 2:43:47 PM PDT by memcindoe (My ancestral motto: This I Will Defend!)
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To: skinndogNN
Are you telling me there are people out there who don’t have bookcases in their home?

One of my older brothers married a woman who made it quite clear that my brother wasn't interested in having lively conversations. She was one of the dumbest people I have ever met.

The two of them had lived out of state for a while, and when they moved back to where the rest of the family lived, they invited everyone over. I remember marveling at the beautiful marble bookends that she had as decorations around the home. Two or three sets of them, not one set contained any books. Just the bookends.

104 posted on 07/18/2013 2:46:05 PM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: mware; So Cal Rocket
Two parents, one of each

sex.

Gender means very little, except in grammar.

105 posted on 07/18/2013 2:48:26 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("See something, say something.")
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To: wideawake

When my oldest grandson was 8 he had to write a story in school about his family. He and my daughter were living with me at the time and he chose to write about my daughter and I. One of the things in his story was that we had millions of books in our home and we would spend at least 150 hours a week with our nose in a book. He had a learning disability and never personally enjoyed reading but to this day loves to have someone read to him, even though he is now a very young adult. He always remembered everything that was read to him though and he and I used to read for at least two hours every evening.


106 posted on 07/18/2013 3:17:54 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: wideawake

We were underedjamacated. We only had 7 (very full) ones.


107 posted on 07/18/2013 3:28:19 PM PDT by Shimmer1 (Disarming innocent people does not protect innocent people.)
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To: skinndogNN

yeah, leftists!


108 posted on 07/18/2013 3:28:50 PM PDT by Shimmer1 (Disarming innocent people does not protect innocent people.)
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To: Vigilanteman

We of the 7 bookcases....I’m done with homeschooling and now my little (twin) grandsons visit and I’m so happy to buy them the books that my sons thrilled to back in the day. Holling Clancy Holling books. Great Illustrated Classics, Sam Campbell books (the BEST)
So many books, so little time!


109 posted on 07/18/2013 3:32:39 PM PDT by Shimmer1 (Disarming innocent people does not protect innocent people.)
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To: SMARTY
When I moved in, I had the carpenter cover all the LR walls with book shelves, and I still don’t have enough room for the books.

So true. We added a great room with built ins. Books are now two deep and have also overtaken the family room and office.

I still prefer paper to eBooks. Don't have to plug them in to charge.
110 posted on 07/18/2013 3:36:47 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o; mware

Consider Ellen DeGeneres and Anne Heche: one parent of each “gender.”


111 posted on 07/18/2013 3:55:26 PM PDT by Tax-chick (No pun intended, no punishment ... If I offended you, you needed it.)
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To: RikaStrom

oh yeah this is just to tide me over until I can build the dream house with a two floored libary similar to what you describe with rolling railed latters and has a small interior mezzanine over the entryway with a nice lounge couch and soft leather chairs. Floor to ceiling shelfs.....sigh....oh and I think there needs to be a cat.


112 posted on 07/18/2013 4:07:59 PM PDT by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothing.)
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To: editor-surveyor

oh well wait a minute - I’ve got those 15K books, but I’ve also got 20k comics... oh, and yes my wife thinks I have a problem.... but I just keep telling her its better then if I was out chasing women and boozing it up... :)


113 posted on 07/18/2013 4:16:45 PM PDT by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothing.)
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To: RikaStrom

A room like that is a good dream. All I know is that Lichenstein has a major industry of cleaningg armor


114 posted on 07/18/2013 5:19:18 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Tax-chick
Not only that, but you could have a male and a female (we'll use those solid standard terms "husband" and "wife") who are both what the benderblenders would ostentatiously call "gender-queer" or "gender-variant" in some way, who still can be solidly wedded, bed, breed and all.

Elizabeth Anscombe and her husband Peter Geach were like that to an extent. She was somewhat Gertrude-Stein looking, no make-up, wore pants, smoked a cigar (this was in the l950's!) and her mentor, the philosopher Wittgenstein, called her "old man".

This did not stop her and husband Peter Geach from having a good marriage, having seven children, being good parents to them, and saying the Rosary together every night. They were just a good Catholic family in which mom was a Cambridge analytical philosopher and rather a dyke.

I guess this is not the first time I've said I love her (Link)

She proves to me that I can love what I don't understand.

115 posted on 07/18/2013 5:29:17 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("See something, say something.")
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To: Mrs. Don-o

I’d have trouble with analytical philosophy and cigar-smoking, myself ;-).


116 posted on 07/18/2013 5:35:05 PM PDT by Tax-chick (No pun intended, no punishment ... If I offended you, you needed it.)
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To: InvisibleChurch

Intelligent people tend to read more books than unintelligent people. (duh) Intelligence is passed on through genes.


117 posted on 07/18/2013 5:39:33 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: skinndogNN

I have a very good friend who never read a book from the time he got out of high school until he retired from his job at the age of 60. Then he proudly told me he started to read books after retirement. I’ve never seen one book in any of the houses he’s lived in. Of course, he’s a die-hard Democrat.


118 posted on 07/18/2013 5:42:13 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: skinndogNN

I should add I never saw my father read a book. I don’t think he ever read one from the time he was in his early twenties until he died. He died earlier this year at the age of 93. A solid Dem most of his life like my friend. Couldn’t make any dent in his skull either as far as politics. He hated Republicans... although he agreed with Republicans on virtually every social issue. Before he died he claimed he had become an independent. Maybe Obama finally got to him.


119 posted on 07/18/2013 5:46:31 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: InvisibleChurch
I've stumbled upon a new technique that will guarantee your child grows up to be an exemplary student and citizen. It's called CTFD, which stands for "Calm The F*ck Down." And that's not a message to give your kids. It's for you.

Using CTFD assures you that -- whichever way you choose to parent -- your child will be fine (as long as you don't abuse them, of course). To see it in action, here are some sample parenting scenarios and how CTFD can be employed:


Yes, using the CTFD method, you'll find the pressure lifted and realize your child loves you no matter what, even if they've yet to master the alphabet. You'll also learn that whether or not you're the best parent in the world, as long as you love your child, they'll think you are and that's what matters. Plus, CTFD makes you immune to those that prey upon the fears of new parents, like pseudoscientists and parenting authors.

To use CTFD, just follow these simple steps:

  1. Calm the f*ck down.
  2. There is no second step.

Forget the rest of what you hear.

120 posted on 07/18/2013 5:56:38 PM PDT by Daffynition (Stand Your Ground)
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