Francis J. “Jerry” (MC1970) Breen’s cartoon
FUN: Francis J. “Jerry” (MC1970) Breen’s cartoon
Friday, June 22, 2007
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FUN: PALDTNTBCOAFTESR
Friday, June 22, 2007FROM THE SECOND COMMENT ON:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/20/radio-report
Announcing The Acronym For The New American Century:
PALDTNTBCOAFTESR
”Politicians Are Like Diapers.
They Need To Be Changed Often And For The Exact Same Reason”
ROFL!
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FUN: Small Pieces Loosely Joined
Sunday, June 17, 2007http://smallpieces.com/kids/spljkids01.html
This is a children’s version of David Weinberger’s book
Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web.
This is suitable for for Luddites and small children.
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FUN: Teaching Math
Sunday, June 10, 2007http://www.nj1015.com/personalities/jim-gearhart/bits/teaching_math.htm
Teaching Math
* Teaching Math in 1950: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price. What is his profit?
* Teaching Math in 1960: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price, or $80.What is his profit?
* Teaching Math in 1970: A logger exchanges a set “L” of lumber for a set “M” of money. The cardinality of set “M” is 100. Each element is worth one dollar. Make 100 dots representing the elements of the set “M.” The set “C”, the cost of production contains 20 fewer points than set “M.” Represent the set “C” as a subset of set “M” and answer the following question: What is the cardinality of the set “P” of profits?
* Teaching Math in 1980: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80 and his profit is $20. Your assignment:Underline the number 20.
* Teaching Math in 1990: By cutting down beautiful forest trees, the logger makes $20. What do you think of this way of making a living? Topic for class participation after answering the question: How did the forest birds and squirrels feel as the logger cut down the trees? There are no wrong answers.
* Teaching Math in 2000: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $120. How does Arthur Andersen determine that his profit margin is $60?
* Teaching Math in 2010: El hachero vende un camion carga por $100.La cuesta de production es………….
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FUN: The Real World
Wednesday, June 6, 2007http://www.nj1015.com/personalities/jim-gearhart/bits/real_world.htm
The Real World
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Charles Sykes is the author of DUMBING DOWN OUR KIDS. In his book, he talks about how the liberal, feel-good, politically correct garbage has created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and set them up for failure in the real world.
Rule 1
Life is not fair; get used to it.
Rule 2
The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world Will expect You to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3
You will not make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice president with a car phone until you “earn” both.
Rule 4
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure.
Rule 5
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.
Rule 6
If you screw up, it’s not your parents’ fault so don’t whine about your mistakes. Learn from them.
Rule 7
Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way paying your bills, cleaning your room and listening to you tell them how idealistic you are. So before you save the rain forest from the blood-sucking parasites of your parents’ generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8
Your school may have done away with winners and losers but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades, they’ll give you as many chances as you want to got the right answer. This, of course, bears not the slightest resemblance to anything in real life.
Rule 9
Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.
Rule 10
Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.
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FUN: Maybe “click it or ticket” for the New Jersey Governor; not regular folks
Wednesday, May 30, 2007Seen all the gooferment commercials about “click it or ticket”/
Seems to be that is a good program for NJ governors and the gooferment in general.
What happened to the concept that “if it is such a good idea, people will do it voluntarily”?
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FUN: has to be a pony in here
Thursday, May 24, 2007http://www.acthompson.net/pony.htm
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“There has to be a pony in here somewhere!”
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There are many references to this “pony” or that “pony” on the web. Even on some prestigious sites. But, no one has the honest to repeat the whole story.
The original has an absurdly honest ring to it.
We know know parent would do such a thing. We know that children always see things with “pristine glasses”. We know know child no matter how naive would NOT think of playing in that, nor that there was a good surprise under all of it.
But this is a this a parable, a legend, a fable, a … a … morality play in a few sentences.
If we always see the glass as half-full, then we’ll be better off.
Will we?
So is it “I’ll believe it when I see it” or “I’ll see it when I believe it”?
IBIWISI or ISIWIBI
An new shorthand for a meme?
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FUN: Explaining Libertarianism to the un-converted
Thursday, May 10, 2007How to explain Libertarianism to a Luddite!
All in good spirits, of course. Notice that I was nattily attired in my http://www.freetalklive.com t-shirt. Slimming wasn’t it?
FUN: Being “cute” won’t get you elected
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?
id=2007-05-08_D8P066800&show_article=1&
cat=breaking
Judge: Sheriff Andy No Harm to Actor
May 8 07:45 AM US/Eastern
By RYAN J. FOLEY
Associated Press Writer
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) – A man who changed his name to Andy Griffith and ran for sheriff did not harm the actor who played Mayberry’s folksy sheriff on the “Andy Griffith Show,” a federal judge ruled.
U.S. District Judge John Shabaz on Friday dismissed the lawsuit brought by Andy Samuel Griffith, who played Sheriff Andy Taylor on the popular 1960s TV series.
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Whatever his name was lost.
Fooling people, or being “cute”, is a waste of time.
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FUN: Never kissed a frog. Never had to.
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
It was a great commercial. I always wanted a poster for my neice-in-law’s daughter. Girls today need to know the sky’s the limit. Boys too. But that’s a different problem.
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