Monday, January 05, 2009

Just A Few Quick Questions

  • Tomorrow, our new semester begins and I have the brother of "The Urinator" in my last period class. From what I've been told, The Urinator is the good brother. Would you cry to the counselor's office for some sort of immunity ("Do I have to have both of the pee brothers!?")? Is it a situation worthy of special consideration?
  • For the English teachers--When you're in those awful staff development meetings and other teachers refer to you as "An English Person", are you tempted to answer them in your best Princess Margaret voice? No? Not even a little?
  • If you're at lunch with a group of mixed age colleagues (all "English People" for what it's worth, and no one eating fish and chips...) and all the diners of a certain age are bemoaning the downfall of society and how text messaging has brought us there, should I mention that I was just notified by text message of the passing of my great uncle?
  • If not Princess Margaret, how about Eliza Doolittle?

For the record, I'd say: no but I'd like to; yes, yes, oh HELL YES; no; and tempting but no.

6 comments:

Mister Teacher said...

Would the brother of "the Urinator" be "the Defecator?"

educat said...

Oh sweet mother of crap (pun unintended, but I think I'll leave it), I'll never know. He fortunately was dropped from my roll yesterday.

Of both of the defication stories I know at school, none are from my classroom. THANK. GOD.

Sandi said...

I WOULD respond in R.P English, and they would look at me like I"m an idiot, but you know I'm used to that. (I'm watching OU play the Gators, and thought of you)

educat said...

Oh, Sandi. So glad to hear that this game has stopped another set of lives from NITS. I was actually on the phone with Emily tonight explaining to her why there was NO ONE in Target tonight when I went to buy tights (emergency tights for funeral, the only excuse to leave the television).

And given the score right now, this is perhaps the last you and I should apeak of this game, friend. :)

Sandi said...

well, please know that because of our mutual love of the same music, thoughts of Jennifer come into my mind more often than is proper. (i mean, I know we were at Smith together but still....)
Olabelle...John Prine & Iris Dement, and most of the stuff on channel 12 on xm. My favorite? "You're the reeson God made Oklahoma.." which I insist is a compliment of the highest order....

Boomer Sooner!

"Ms. Cornelius" said...

"The Rain in Spain stays MAINly on the Plain" when translated through the Pee Brothers could become something like this, Eliza:

"The PEE in OKC's enough to make me Whee!"

But see, your problem is that you UNDERSTAND the poor little things and would have so ever much more empathy than someone who hadn't been exposed previously....