It’s that time of year
Friends, family, and turkey
And Turku for All
That’s right friends, it’s Thanksgiving time. It’s time for the annual publishing of the Turku book from when I was student teaching at Troy High School. These were Thanksgiving haiku written by the Social Studies Department (I was The Apprentice). Share with your loved ones. I’m sure they will enjoy our brilliance. Download the PDF.
Kritter posted this on her blog and it made me smile so I thought I’d post it here.
We could all use a little financial advice during these difficult economic times!
Retirement Plan Investment Tip…
If you had purchased $1000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00.
With Enron, you would have $16.50 left of the original $1000.
With WorldCom, you would have less than $5.00 left.
If you had purchased $1000.00 of Delta Air Lines stock you would have $49.00 left.
If you had purchased United Airlines, you would have nothing left.
But, if you had purchased $1000.00 worth of beer one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling refund you would have $214.00. Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle.
This is called the 401-Keg Plan.
Pure genius.
This was a funny little poem I saw on Digg. In all seriousness though, it amazes me that people are still going to vote for him after seeing what has happened in the past 8 years. Don’t be fooled, he really isn’t any different than George Bush. I’m also tired of hearing the lies his campaign spreads (head on over to politicaljackass.com to see what I’m talking about), especially that Obama will raise your taxes, when numerous economists and newspapers have reported that McCain’s tax policies are bad for the economy because they are just like Bush’s AND Obama’s tax cuts go to the middle class and not the wealthiest 1% of people. Anyway, here is the poem:
Would you vote for John McCain?
On a boat or in a plane?I would not, could not, vote McCain.
Not in a boat. Not on a plane.Could you vote if he were blue?
Could he get your dog’s vote too?My dog would not vote for him,
nor would my cat.
I would not vote for John McCain.
I would not do it and that is that.How about in the pouring rain,
under an umbrella held by John McCain?I would not vote for John McCain.
I would not do it in the rain. Read more
There is this awesome group called Improv Everywhere. They set up situations with tons of improv actors and film the resulting scene. They’ve done things such as show up to Best Buy wearing blue polo shirts (looking like Best Buy employees), going to Abercrombie and Fitch and taking off their shirts, wearing no pants on the subway, and freezing in Grand Central Station. There latest video is a spontaneous musical in a food court. I love the people’s reactions. They are an impressive group and I love their videos. Here is the musical.
At what point in your life do you develop common sense because it sure isn’t in middle school. Three things happened today, each with a different kid, that made me come to this conclusion and oddly enough they all happened at lunch time. Maybe low blood sugar is to blame.
The first incident is as we were leaving the room to grab our lunches a kid starts walking in the opposite direction of the cafeteria. Now, this is February 29th. This kid has been at this school all year. He knows where the cafeteria is. He’s even been in my class before. Yet for a moment he forgot where the cafeteria was.
The second was a kid getting his lunch. The choices today were pizza, ham and cheese sandwich, pasta, or fish sticks. This kid was dumbfounded by fish sticks. He looked at the lunch lady like she was an alien. He then asked her if they had chicken inside. Yes, they are called fish sticks because chicken is inside. Talk about a Jessica Simpson moment.
The last incident was a kid dropped his pasta all over the floor. He just stood there staring at it. He then asks what he should do and of course the answer was to clean it up. That confused him even more. When you drop something, you clean it up. Get some napkins and wipe up the mess, then go get another lunch.
Kids are funny. Days like these bring a smile to my face.