This is taken from ChinookWind: I took lyrics of a popular song, Used Babelfish to translate them into german, then from german into french, and the from french back to german. See if you can guess ( Read more... )

If a bit simplified.

Your Linguistic Profile:

65% General American English
35% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern
0% Yankee

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
I would however, say that, based on these options, it's probably dead-even on how I speak. I'm fluent in Dixie, I don't speak it all the time, but I'm fluent. It does, ( Read more... )

Ultimate Gamer!!
GM says drop 2d10, aanndd... you roll 81% !

What, are you a first generation gamer? Did you own the brown box?! Whatever you do in your spare time, gaming seems to be your job. Either you looked up the answers or you're the best of the best, the type that makes other gamers strive to know more. Just don't let the knowledge ( Read more... )

Stolen from loresinger

1. Pick 10 movies that you enjoy.
2. Pick a line of dialog that you like.
3. As people guess the film, strike out that entry.
4. NO cheating!!!

1. Shpadoinkle! shieldhaven got this Cannibal: The Musical reference! “A union army soldier did this to me in the big one. Any of you boys fight for the union army?”
2. SHUT UP! pinkbliss645 has landed the ( Read more... )

"Teachers are paid too much! I'm fed up with teachers and their hefty salaries for only 9 months work! What we need here is a little perspective ( Read more... )

This comes from an activity that my class completed the previous week. I will give a big prize and (well, of) bragging rights to whomever can answer these questions correctly:

1) In which author's style is the following poem written?
2) What poem by that author is this poem styled after?
3) What song's lyrics are the basis of the content of this ( Read more... )

So, tomorrow I start teaching a full teacher-work-day. Okay, so I only have to be at the school the full teacher-day, and I teach one class on my own, plus team-teach two others. The things being taught however, I wrote the plans, about 60 pages of plans for the next two and a half weeks ( Read more... )

Well, things didn't go as well for the Libertarians as I'd hoped...but the Democratic party slipped a lot farther down in popularity. Maybe one day, in my lifetime ( Read more... )

http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,12589,1336957,00.html

Jack Sparrow to have a Papa in Pirates of the Carribean 2: played by none other than Keith Richards!

This is utterly amusing!

This is going to be the busiest semester of my entire life, heck, of ( Read more... )