Re: Unknown Knowns

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You know, if you're trying to teach kids the letter s, wouldn't you be better off with something that starts with the sound 's' rather than 'sh'?


Posted by: cw | Link to this comment | 11-12-05 6:07 PM
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Sorry, that should have been 'frist!'


Posted by: cw | Link to this comment | 11-12-05 6:08 PM
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I wondered the same thing. Maybe the teacher was going for something familiar, which makes the story even better.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 11-12-05 6:13 PM
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Where's baa?


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 11-12-05 6:22 PM
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That's an excellent abortion column, I'm swiping it.

It's really time I 'fessed up: I am baa. That's why there's usually only one of us around at a time.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 11-12-05 7:11 PM
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[Insert Montana sheep-fucking joke here, adapted for Wales]


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 11-12-05 7:57 PM
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I'm swiping it.

Plagiarism, libel, sexual harassment; there's really nothing you won't do, is there?


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 11-12-05 8:15 PM
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Arguably she doesn't do the sexual harrassment thing nearly enough.


Posted by: Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 11-12-05 8:16 PM
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"the comforting prism of her own middle-class background."

Where do I get one of those?


Posted by: baa | Link to this comment | 11-12-05 8:41 PM
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Let your intuition guide you, baa.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 11-12-05 8:43 PM
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No slumming, baa.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 11-12-05 8:43 PM
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How do we know it's really baa, and not bitchphd in a wool sweater? Note the lack of certain characteristic: phrasing!


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 11-12-05 8:52 PM
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The evidence on offer? Decisive!


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 11-12-05 9:09 PM
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Evil alien mecha sheep, but incisive to a fault.


Posted by: slolernr | Link to this comment | 11-12-05 9:14 PM
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None of my comments today has risen above bug-splat quality, so I'm going to go read a book or limn the cusps or whatever.

"I thought you just told me they used radio."
"They do, but what do you think is on the radio? Meat sounds. You know how when you slap or flap meat, it makes a noise? They talk by flapping their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat."

—Terry Bisson, They're Made Out Of Meat


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 11-12-05 9:18 PM
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#7: I've never stolen a pumpkin or a Christmas tree from in front of a grocery store.

Although I've always wanted to.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 11-12-05 9:29 PM
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None of my comments today has risen above bug-splat quality

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Posted by: | Link to this comment | 11-12-05 10:31 PM
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From the abortion article:

Or does she buy into the myth that, in the absence of accessible sexual information, the kids stop shagging and sublimate their urges with conker tournaments and French knitting?

I have no idea what those last two things are, but they sound dirtier than the shagging alternative.


Posted by: tom | Link to this comment | 11-13-05 9:29 AM
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[Insert Montana sheep-fucking joke here, adapted for Wales]

I'm waiting for d-squared to show up and insist that the Welsh were fucking sheep long before any Montanans ever had the notion.


Posted by: Mitch Mills | Link to this comment | 11-13-05 10:12 AM
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Sheepherding is only a century old in Montana, whereas there have been sheep in Wales for a much longer period. So I'm willing to grant that the Montanans' more sophisticated methods were a later development of the crude but pathbreaking early attempts of the Welsh.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 11-13-05 11:36 AM
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A good sheep'll do that.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 11-13-05 11:39 AM
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Perhaps we could modify the Dostoevsky anecdote to say that the 8-year-old boy serf had fucked the general's sheep, and see how the math comes out on that one.


Posted by: Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 11-13-05 11:44 AM
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A voice from the wet and windy British Isles will let you know that sheep shagger is a favored (or favoured, to the locals) insult directed at anyone froma rural area. It would be my favorite (or favourite if, as ogged seems to think, I were actually British), were it not for the Irish term of abuse, muck savage.

I hereby nominate w-lfs-n as unfogged's chief muck savage. Have I a second?


Posted by: peter snees | Link to this comment | 11-15-05 3:56 PM
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