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Why English Teachers Die Young(Humor Break)
3/26/05 | Email

Posted on 03/26/2005 6:48:05 AM PST by Vision

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To: Vision

good stuff!


21 posted on 03/26/2005 7:42:33 AM PST by elfman2 (@ copyright 2005)
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To: elfman2

So many tag lines, so little bandwidth!


22 posted on 03/26/2005 7:47:33 AM PST by MilspecRob (Most people don't act stupid, they really are.)
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To: Vision
It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.

No doubt the school called Child Protective Services in on this one.
23 posted on 03/26/2005 7:50:44 AM PST by uncitizen
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To: Vision

I'm still laughing. I love the the boat in the pond, ballerina and brother in law. But I think my favorite is the simple:

Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

Great! I see mischief and great wit. There is hope for the future after all.


24 posted on 03/26/2005 7:57:03 AM PST by didi (I like guys with good skills, you know, like computer hacking and numchuck skills)
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To: Vision

"18. Even in his last years, Grandpappy had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut."

I rise in defence of grandfathers everywhere.


25 posted on 03/26/2005 9:24:49 AM PST by beaubazzoo (Birthdays are good. The more you have, the longer you live.)
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To: Vision; msdrby; Corin Stormhands
10. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.

Now there's a vivid description!

26 posted on 03/26/2005 9:30:43 AM PST by Professional Engineer (My baby girl has the strongest little finger known to man.)
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To: Professional Engineer; msdrby
heh...wife's been doing a unit on Elie Wiesel and Corrie Ten Boom. Passed out study guide which was widely ignored.

On the test, she was told Rosh Hashanah was a rabbi...

27 posted on 03/26/2005 10:37:33 AM PST by Corin Stormhands (Some days my tagline has nothing to say...)
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To: Corin Stormhands

Definate bump on these!!


28 posted on 03/26/2005 12:25:08 PM PST by TrailofTears ("A real father would hold the judge hostage and starve him to death.")
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To: Corin Stormhands

rofl!!!


29 posted on 03/26/2005 3:34:32 PM PST by msdrby (Freedom, by its nature, must be chosen and defended by its citizens.)
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To: Corin Stormhands
On the test, she was told Rosh Hashanah was a rabbi...

C'mon, we all know it's the day after G_d created the heavens and the stars.

30 posted on 03/26/2005 4:20:31 PM PST by Professional Engineer (My baby girl has the strongest little finger known to man.)
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To: Vision

Hilarious.
but you have to admit, they are creative.


31 posted on 03/26/2005 7:00:35 PM PST by I_saw_the_light
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To: Vision

Bumpity bump


32 posted on 03/26/2005 7:04:02 PM PST by Samwise (Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away.)
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To: Oztrich Boy

Yeah. That one describes Susan Estrich's voice to a T.


33 posted on 03/26/2005 7:10:30 PM PST by KimmyJaye (Susan Estrich: A face for radio and a voice for pantomime.)
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To: Grannyx4

English ping!


34 posted on 03/26/2005 7:20:02 PM PST by LongElegantLegs (I considered getting highlights; but my smugness is easier to maintain.)
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To: LongElegantLegs

5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.

We are dyin' over here!


35 posted on 03/26/2005 7:32:03 PM PST by Vor Lady
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To: Corin Stormhands
On the test, she was told Rosh Hashanah was a rabbi...

Wasn't he the friend of that other famous rabbi, you know, Hannukah?

36 posted on 03/26/2005 8:01:06 PM PST by exDemMom (Euthanasia, NO WAY. Youth in Asia, OF COURSE.)
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To: Vision
I've seen these presented as a list of the worst examples of student writing, and only a minority realized how good they are.
37 posted on 03/26/2005 8:19:04 PM PST by A.J.Armitage (http://calvinist-libertarians.blogspot.com/)
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To: Vision

#3 got truncated. It's supposed to read:

He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.


38 posted on 03/26/2005 8:36:29 PM PST by RightOnTheLeftCoast (You're it)
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To: Vision
Marvelous post. One of my children thought this one up while riding along in the vehicle competing with two siblings for "noise-making space":

"Stop that racket! I can't hear mine!"

39 posted on 03/26/2005 8:44:42 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Vision

The English teachers shouldn't die young. Laughing this hard is supposed to be good for the heart.


40 posted on 03/26/2005 10:34:15 PM PST by WFTR (Liberty isn't for cowards)
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