Posted on 06/06/2021 7:13:09 AM PDT by gattaca
to ask passersby what we celebrate on July
Memorial Day is just another long weekend for the VP.
Old timers will remember the 1950s TV show “THE 64,000 QUESTION” when no one gave a correct answer. The producers then decided there had to be some questions answered correctly, so later shows gave some answers to the contestants before the program, leading to the Payola scandal.
Yes, I was appalled when I witnessed this.
You forgot putting a condom on a cucumber.
Heels Up is a Indian Elite caste member from Canada .
Not a American .
“I had a cashier once who didn’t know what happened on July 4, 1776.”
Must be the same one that thought my Susan B Anthony dollars were foreign currency and called the store manager.
Or the one that thought a $2 bill was fake and called the cops.
While I ‘think’ that we usually see the worst of the ‘street interviews’ on the various videos, the ones from the college & spring breaks just make one CRINGE! There was one from outside Harvard Yard that was so deeply ignorant that I would guess that their teachers would be proud of their accomplishment in destroying our country!
Anyone notice that no one talks about Trivial Pursuit anymore? Just a symptom I guess!
PS - read the standard textbooks of K-12. Sad to say these are the books used in almost every private school too.
Because students are no longer expected to actually read, the new texts all come with all kinds of resources from the internet, because, of course, kids don’t get enough exposure to computer/tablet/phone screens.
I’d make a quick and dirty judgement of a text by seeing how the Civil War, WWI and WWII were covered. Sometimes you can tell just by the pictures. If, by looking at the illustrations you get the impression that WWII was primarily fought by black soldiers and women or that the Japanese internment is equated with the Holocaust, you can tell where the text is coming from.
Everybody knows the beginning of the Gettysburg Address, nobody knows the end. Just like nobody knows the end of the big Hamlet soliloquy.
Probably because they were alive when that happened.
My teacher was really into rote learning. Also had to memorize the Preamble of the Constitution, and the poem Abou Ben Adhams,. How is that for Jeopardy Trivia.
I quit watching after Alex passed. I don’t care for any of the new hosts. Content to stay with years of reruns.
While there is no question that schooling isn’t what it used to be, this trio was an unusually weak one for Jeopardy. They stopped-and-stared on several other clues including three others from the quotations category. I believe most other Jeopardy! Contestants, including the younger ones, would have got this one right. Just one of those instances where weak contestants got put on the same day.
Gettysburg address used to be memorized in schools.
I like Buzzy, I’d give him the nod.
The first mattress sale ?
Years ago the NYT had a section in which New Yorkers would submit anecdotes about life in the city. A man told about the time he went to the deli and the cashier rang up his order and said, "Your total is ten sixty-six." The man responded, "Ah, the Battle of Hastings." The girl looked puzzled so he explained that 1066 was the year of the the Battle of Hastings. The girl said nothing for a while, then she asked, "Can you do that with any number?"
Lincoln’s version of the civil war is politically-incorrect; children must not be told white people fought and died to free people of color from slavery. Why would racists do that? If anything, they are to be taught the Confederate version of the civil war. The civil war was to preserve the union, not to free the slaves.
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