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Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen
Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein
The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.
---- Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antproof Case, 1995
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei
This may be the most interesting blog theme I've ever seen. http://eflgeek.com/index.php Definitely in my top 5 at least.
---- Steve Dembo
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
---- M. Cartmill
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
---- George Orwell
Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
---- Arnold Lobel
The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton
"It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'"
---- Sam Levenson
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
---- Mitch Hedberg
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost
Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
---- Jack Lynch
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
---- Edward R. Murrow
Snogging
I’m about halfway through the latest Harry Potter book and there are several pages where Ron, Ginny, & Harry are having an argument about who should be snogging with whom and the fact that Ron hasn’t snogged anyone, but just caught his younger sister (Ginny) and a boy in the middle of it. From the context I have figured out what snogging is - clearly deep tongue infested kissing.
What I want to know is whether this is British slang or some new slang that I have never encountered before. Where does snogging come from? what ever happened to terms like, French Kissing, swapping spit, lip lock, mouth to mouth etc…
In other news you’ve probably noticed a serious lack of blogging lately. Well two reasons, I’m on vacation and not teaching right now and I’m having some big time problems rendering video and that is sucking up all my computer time. I edited the video I shot from my Vacation to Singapore and want to make a DVD but whenever I render it, it gets stuck on the second pass. I’m going nuts trying all kinds of work arounds I’ve found on the net but nothing is working. I spent about 10 hours editing the video and don’t want to do that again.
If anyone has used pinnacle studio 9.4.3 and has some advice on how to get this rendered I would be very grateful. I have previously made SVCD’s with no problem, but the current project is too big to fit on an SVCD and since I bought a DVD writer I would like to use it for more than back-up purposes.
Regular blogging will resume - i have at least three long posts planned out on my white board - eventually.
update
I got the DVD burned, finally. Hopefully this work around works every time in the future. And I finished Harry Potter around 5pm today as well. The verdict? Good but the fifth book was better.
Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Tuesday Jul 26, 2005 at 09:58 AM
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The Tensor wrote 24 words on Tuesday Jul 26, 2005 at 02:52 PM
It’s very common British English slang.
Oh, and you forgot my personal favorite, “tonsil hockey”.
BTW, Baronger wrote a post about this subject recently.
Sean. wrote 18 words on Tuesday Jul 26, 2005 at 07:55 PM
I can’t believe I forgot tonsil hocky…
Thanks for the link, I’ve added Baronger to my read list.