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Posted on 01/25/2023 9:48:43 PM PST by grundle
1."In 4th grade we were learning about bats. And the teacher asked the class to name as many different types of bats as we could. I raised my hand and said 'Vampire Bats,' and he said 'Name only real ones please.' They are real, and I knew it. But he made me feel like an ass."
2."I got sent to the principal's office for using the word 'plethora.' The teacher thought it was a swear word. So did the principal."
7."That the moon emits light, just like the sun. As a nerdy kid interested in space I told her that it’s actually reflecting the light of the sun, but she did not believe me."
12."That Abraham Lincoln was the first American president. I told her she was wrong, it was George Washington, and she snapped, saying, ‘Well why do you know so much about American politics it is pathetic.’ And all the other kids in my class started making fun of me for being stupid."
13."I was told in no uncertain terms that the match in shape between Africa and South America was coincidental...That is to say: The match between the Western coastline of Africa and the Eastern coastline of South America."
14."Middle school not elementary, but my sixth grade science teacher told the class that sound travels faster than light because 'If a plane is flying overhead, you hear it before you see it!'"
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He said, “dumming down.” LOL!
I bet you she was from Tennessee. I had a neighbor from there and I couldn’t discern a difference between her pronunciation of “pen” and “pin”.
I see what you did there.
Interesting. How deep is the trench at Mauna Kea?
Just wow!
“That’s still a theory... What’s under the oceans? Land covered by water.
No, that is a gross oversimplification / distortion of the truth.
The ocean floors do not simply represent submerged continental land.”
Don’t forget that before the inter-glacial started, that we are in now, sea level was about 500 feet below today’s. That makes the continental shelves land that is now under water. The rest beyond that is sea floor spreading.
I was told by Mrs Kerr, my first grade teacher that i needed to write with my right hand because “only stupid people write with their left hand. “
“There are more than two genders.”
“Mount Lamlam is the highest peak on the island of Guam. If you think about where this island is placed, rising 37,820 feet above the floor of the Marianas Trench, then measuring from the bottom of sea level to the tip of this peak — Mount Lamlam is the tallest mountain in the world!Jun 3, 2020”
https://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/feature/unraveling-the-tapestry-of-ocean-crust/
Most people know that oceans cover about 70 percent of Earth’s surface. Fewer people realize that the crust beneath oceans and continents is fundamentally different. Why this is so remains a mystery that scientists are still trying to solve.
Oceanic crust is generally composed of dark-colored rocks called basalt and gabbro. It is thinner and denser than continental crust, which is made of light-colored rocks called andesite and granite. The low density of continental crust causes it to “float” high atop the viscous mantle, forming dry land. Conversely, dense oceanic crust does not “float” as high—forming lower-lying ocean basins. As oceanic crust cools, it becomes denser and ultimately sinks back into the mantle under its own weight after about 200 million years.
“She also had a wrong idea of what the flaps on an airplane were for.”
You should have told her they were “high coefficient lift devices. The more prominent the camber the higher is the maximum lift coefficient.”
That would have thoroughly confused her!
The peak of Hawaii’s Mauna Kea is 33,476 feet (10,203 meters) above Pacific Ocean floor. Others say that it is Mount Lamlam on Guam. It is only 1,332 feet above sea level, but it is another 36,070 feet from the bottom of the Marianas Trench
In 4th grade some of my hooligan friends had spray painted an anatomically correct image of our teacher on the side of the school during the night. We were let out for the day while they sand blasted it off.
I think I learned the word "plethora" from Howard Cosell on Monday Night Football. Lol.
She said, "Thank you, that means a lot."
I’ll tell you a real one. Second grade, 1971. Nasty old bat nun for a teacher. She had us draw a still life drawing of two pieces of fruit, an apple and an orange.
I drew the orange just fine but she didn’t like the apple because it wasn’t perfectly round. It was a little narrow on the bottom and wider on top because my mom usually bought Red Delicious apples and that’s what they looked like.
The old bat nun told me that’s not what apples looked like. I told her it was exactly like the apples my mom bought. She tore it up and made me redo it.
So I did. Narrow on the bottom, wider on top. Tore it up. Round 3. Narrow on the bottom, wider on top. She was too self-righteous to lose. And I was a perfectly correct seven-year old.
A couple weeks later at the art fair, there were 32 pictures on the wall of an orange and a perfectly round apple...and a 8 1/2x11 empty space where mine would have been.
I don’t remember if my dad had any reaction but I could tell my mom was beaming with pride.
“I was told back then that there was no such thing as dinosaurs because they were never mentioned in the bible so they did not exist.”
If you had known the Hebrew of Genesis 1:21, which says in English,
“And God created the great sea monsters, and every living creature that crawls, with which the waters swarmed, according to their kind, and every winged fowl, according to its kind, and God saw that it was good.”
where it says, “the great sea monsters,” is transliterated as HaTanninim Ha’Gdolim.
In modern Hebrew, “Tanninim,” is translated as “crocodiles.” You can translate, “the great sea monsters,” as “the great crocodiles” or “the great reptiles.”
One of my kids has a hat that says “Actually, it is rocket science” He’s an actual rocket scientist. (and whenever he does something stupid, we remind him)
Plethora is just another word for dinosaur?
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