Monday Musings
I've been writing too long that I now let commercials get to me. Today I heard one for some computer place that had the "most unique" something or other. How do you modify an absolute? Don't any of these people own Strunk and White?
Hillary is "In To Win". Should be a nice dogfight with Osama Bin Hussein Obama.
Anybody besides Mr. Peck and me watch Rome last night? Off the charts great show.
Well, now that the Saints are eliminated, we don't have to listen to the ad nauseum talking head treatment of post Katrina New Orleans. Instead, all we will hear for the next two weeks is how both head coaches of the Super Bowl teams are black.
Hillary is "In To Win". Should be a nice dogfight with Osama Bin Hussein Obama.
Anybody besides Mr. Peck and me watch Rome last night? Off the charts great show.
Well, now that the Saints are eliminated, we don't have to listen to the ad nauseum talking head treatment of post Katrina New Orleans. Instead, all we will hear for the next two weeks is how both head coaches of the Super Bowl teams are black.
posted by stewdog | 10:04 AM | Permalink
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"Most unique" would, I think, bother me less than all the ones I hear that include:
... the xxx you deserve
... you deserve xxx
These are especially obnoxious when combined with obvious appeals to baby boomers ("your generation" to the sounds of some stale Top 40 tune).
CIV, thanks for the comments. This very unique website DESERVES your attention.
Actually, that is a different category of overused and trite expressions. I recently blogged on the annual list of them ("boasts", etc.). 'Most unique' is simply improper usage.
"Rome" huh?
--"You like movies about Gladiators, Bobby?"
Movie alert! Parents of young children (that means you KM and WD), need to watch this video:
Math Education: An Inconvenient Truth
Now I know what hell my poor RugRat was going through in elementary school. It didn't matter if you understood math taught the traditional way; you still had to learn all these alternative methods, which were slow and error prone.
That is so depressing, CIV, and we're already starting to experience some of the absurdity of the math curriculum in the primary grades.
Maybe Scotty and I should start a homeschooling co-op of some sort?
At least get those suggested books and be prepared to supplement. Though you may find you are doing so much of that (just wait until you get to what passes for history and social studies), that you might as well be homeschooling. If the RR wasn't so ornery, we might have done that. Maybe you have more cooperative kids.
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