If mind it be. From Tom Ricks’ Best Defense blog:
So maybe it was the Un-Civil War?
From Shit My Students Write: “The rebel and onion armies showed grose negligence by having many of their battles right inside national parks, like Gettysburg.”
(HT to AS)
A History prof I know once joked in class that she’d never met anyone from Albania and wasn’t sure the place really existed. On the exam, one of the students wrote “Albania probably does not exist”. I am assured that this was not an attempt at humour.
Harvard students?
Yale?
Stanford?
UC Berkeley?
Maybe some of Iggy’s ex book-crakers.
Funny things kids write in exams
Read “what Pande says”. LOL!
When we stop laughing (there are some incredibly funny lines on that web page), think about this. Those are the future of the planet. Thank goodness I won’t be around.
You really can’t make this shit up!!!!!
Shit My Students Write
I understand this being joked about amongst teachers but… they’re your students.
> but… they’re your students.
Not necessarily. Are you serious?
By the way, joking about Albania: it does exist, but what’s the use of it? The only 3 individuals I ever came across in my lifetime, who were not able to pass Canadian Firearms Safety Course were 3 Albanians – they botched both theory and practical tests.
but… they’re your students.
Aaron, you don’t get it? If students suffer from knowledge gaps, or really miss the mark…it’s the teacher who has failed in getting the student to the standard.
Some of those are a little too well phrased not to be deliberate. When I was in high school in the 80’s and 90’s we were getting the first wave of eco-doctrination, and it was a common pastime to see just how flagrantly over the top we could regurgitate the party line before the teachers caught on.
Second year journalism.
The English Civil War was worse. They were actually shooting at listed buildings in the National Trust!
Ahhhh, Sherman – who first came to prominence at Shiloh. That battle was well covered in VDH’s Ripples of Battle – there were other interesting turning points there, the death of Albert Sidney Johnston, the rise of Nathan Bedford Forrest (who eventually became involved with the Klan), and also the woe of Lew Wallace, the guy who wrote Ben Hur.
(Just from memory, but I think that’s right. And for me to remember that is a tribute to the great writing of VDH!)
Completely O/T, now that the long from birth certificate is out, do you think Barky Obama will ever release his Harvard transcripts?
What a wonderful waste of time. A favorite.
Never Halting the March of Nonsense
“Much with the never halting march of mankind, as civilization continued its inevitable revolutionizing of formerly steadfast views of what constituted the ideologies surrounding the concept of imagined communities, its malleable nature gave way to transmutations of something more; the aftermath for which resulted in the distinct separation of these works which constituted the pre-modern, the early modern, and the modern”.
BlMa – meh, doubt it. I always thought the Republicans were so stupid with their lack of strategy. They should have said “we believe you was born in the USA, however the secrecy surrounding your background and transcripts, as well as the amount of time and money devoted to concealing them is concerning to our open society. Mr President, please show us that you have nothing to hide”.
Probably from the new NDP caucus
OMG! Just imaging what would have happened if they had destroyed the Civil War Memorial during all the fighting! That pesky ‘onion’ army…
OK, I’ll step into the guano here.
IMO, the birth certificate is most likely a forgery, produced recently to cover The Empty Suit’s ass. All the evidence and statements from Obama’s paternal grandmother, et. al. (even corrorborative statements from the Kenyan Ambassador on Obama’s birthplace, plus former Egyptian Foreign Minister interview statement about Obama acknowledging his Muslim faith) indicate Obama was in fact born in Kenya.
All the contemporary summary dismissal of all this evidence by Obama’s minions and the media and punditocracy just shows they who just don’t want to deal with it.
I really like Obama.
He is totally harmless.
Long as you can keep his hands away
From a Credit or Debit card.
Besides —Obama personally drove a stake
Thru Bin Laden’s heart while it was still pumping.
If I was a Muslim—-
It should be FATWA time.
I’ve seen Ken Burns’ Civil War series and it had nothing pertaining to onions!
We are looking at the next anchors for the CBC and CNN.
I guess I always wondered why presidents went on TV to talk about the state of the onion
>>Albania: it does exist, but what’s the use of it?
I believe the guy who sells authentic Belgian waffles at the Edmonton downtown farmers market on 104th St is an Albanian, but he actually learned to make Belgian waffles during a stay in Belgium (not sure which part – Flemish or Walloon). Actually, this doesn’t really prove the existence of either Albania of Belgium. I’ve never met anyone from Kyrgyzstan either, for that matter.
“Albania: it does exist, but what’s the use of it?”
I guess all the Albanians have to be somewhere, although maybe that’s what Italy’s for.
soooooo basically a 59 y.o. hippie knows more about the first mechanized war than these yahoos.
this ‘decline of the am. empire’ thing I attribute to their edjukashun cystem. with Canuckistan hot on the heels.
teachers of my generation emphasized beating the crap out of non-conformists. today’s never flunks ANYBODY.
Black Mamba. Can’t find it but I read to-day a researcher can’t find where bambam’s parents were married or if. They were apart before he was born. As It Happens to-night had an interview that said Bush had an agreement with Pakistan that the US could come after Bin Laden and senior leaders. They would be outraged. Explains the non response.
The guy has a lot of secrets, mostly his ability.
Interesting, Dave and Speedy, but you guys are going way off topic. I was joking – I suspect Barry’s University records prove that he isn’t the mega-super-genius we’ve been told he is. Probably never heard of Albania.
Don’t make Kate close down comments. I don’t want to have to get a life.
> it’s the teacher who has failed in getting the student to the standard.
Netty, it’s you who are not getting it.
It’s not necessarily the blog writing teacher’s fault. There are many good teachers who spend their career basically shaking their heads in disbelief looking at the ‘achievements’ of their colleagues.
I am balking at appreciating blanket nature of the statement ‘it’s your students’ as it’s construed to silence the blog author – a non-conservative thing to do.
Black Mamba 843 wins
It’s the exponential problem of ‘Google’. When we used books to research it was much harder to mess up. Search engines are wonderful but you have to know how to use them AND then know how to discern the information.
When kids haven’t really been taught how to think logically, for themselves, and outside the box: here are the results.
there, their, they’re
to, too, two
by, bye, buy
half the blog sphere blows their usage
Would that be red, yellow or white onions? Certain grievance industries need to know.
Louise @ 1115
What about purple onions? Racist!
I thought Albania was the white stuff around the egg yolk. Oh, wait….
While fighting battles in the national parks was rather thoughtless, it was rather considerate of the casualties to die in the cemetaries. Imagine if someone had to carry all those bodies, YUCK!
I remember the late 1970’s when Albania was an unrepentant Stalinist hellhole, where people were foraging for their daily food like hungry racoons; but they did have free health care. At that time arts students from the U of Sask. would occasionally set up an information booth to spread the good news about Albania and how we should order our society much like Albania.
Onions – you either hate them or love them.
Noem at 11:38 PM: “What about purple onions? Racist!”
“Red” is the term preferred by the onions themselves. Racist yourself!
There is a conference room chair and a $350k to start salary on a two year contract
waiting for that student in the writers’ section at South Park Studios in Hollywood.
Maybe $200k one year if he can only produce when he’s zonked.
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mr riley, you forgot The Big One.
your you’re
Back in the late 1970’s, while working offshore in the North Sea, one of the Short wave radio stations I used to receive very strongly late at night was the Albanian state broadcaster, with the English propoganda broadcast.
The socialist clap trap, and delusional conspiracies given creedence on that station makes the propaganda spewing out of North Korea seem almost sane in comparison.
We would play it in our office, and crack up our the wild statements being made.
How the world has changed, now my daughter is dating an Albanian, I guess he got lost on his way to Italy (thanks Black Mamba, that cracked me up) and ended up in Toronto.
we are fast approaching the point where, if you have a degree, …. best keep it to yourself.
BWR & SS
I find it more irritating when people find it necessary to comment on grammer on blogs. Many of us don’t proof our statements as these comments are often quick and witty like Twitter. Don’t presume that because someone mis-spells something or uses the wrong ‘to’ that you know better. Most of us can write just fine, we just choose not to waste too much time proof reading.
“”Red” is the term preferred by the onions themselves. Racist yourself!”
Actually, isn’t it First Garden Onions the correct way to refer to the Red Onion?
Sgt Lejaune – re. South Park – you’re conflating “obscene, grotesque and scatological” with “stupid and witless”. South Park is brilliant. It’s too dirty to watch so you’ll just have to take my word for it.
its, it’s
Indiana: Actually, isn’t it First Garden Onions the correct way to refer to the Red Onion?
That should be Garden-of-Eden Onions, shouldn’t it, until the “White” onions came along and messed it up.
Which reminds me, we’ll have to find a place for green onions, too.
BM,
I’ll concede 999 out of 1000 times in a case like this you will be right.
Of course when I was 4 or 5 I thought large waving hardwood trees created the wind …..
Like a woman seduces a horny man, Hitler captivated the people of Germany.
Another great metaphor from “S..t my students write”
Indiana, your write, normaley eye don’t care a bout grammer awn blogs, butt their seams two bee eh lemmit too watt is taller able, buy four now.