Living in caves, eating acorns
Okay, enough about the future. We've got work to do if we want to defeat those evil robotons, given the absence of a real Yoshimi. This website isn't going to build itself. Our history books say that kind of functionality doesn't/didn't happen until 2010.
I want to tell you all a story about a crappy language arts teacher I had back in high school. She was one of those unhappy old ladies who viewed students as worthless layabouts who needed to be controlled and denigrated. You know, a real Brick in the Wall Part II kind of schoolmarm. She had a manilla-envelope colored dye job on her frizzy old white woman 'fro, and was old enough that one of my other teachers at the time had had her as a student. She misinterpreted not only the symbolism in every book we read, but also numerous lines of dialogue. She thought writing a one-sentence precis for every story we read, and watching a film version of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" from the 1960s, was good pedagogy. She must have thought that she had a lot of important stuff to say, because she talked non-stop every class period, except to take short, audible breaths, which were so numerous we often counted them rather than listen to what she was saying.
Anyways, all of that pales in light of the gross misinformation she gave out at times. This one time, she said that there were only 6 adjectives in the English language that ended in -ly. Now, I understood that -ly is primarily the domain of adverbs. But I counted over 30 such adjectives over the course of five minutes, sitting there in class. I decided to make it my goal to collect as many -ly adjectives as I could, as a lasting testament to how much monkey nuts she sucked. And I collected quite a few. And they're on this website...somewhere. They're hidden in a super-secret place. I challenge you, our readers, to find them. I have no doubt that both of you are smart enough to follow the clues and track those adjectives down...especially when there's actually no clues, it just sounded better to say there were.
If you find them, let us know about your success in the comments. The first person who finds them gets a special prize!
I want to tell you all a story about a crappy language arts teacher I had back in high school. She was one of those unhappy old ladies who viewed students as worthless layabouts who needed to be controlled and denigrated. You know, a real Brick in the Wall Part II kind of schoolmarm. She had a manilla-envelope colored dye job on her frizzy old white woman 'fro, and was old enough that one of my other teachers at the time had had her as a student. She misinterpreted not only the symbolism in every book we read, but also numerous lines of dialogue. She thought writing a one-sentence precis for every story we read, and watching a film version of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" from the 1960s, was good pedagogy. She must have thought that she had a lot of important stuff to say, because she talked non-stop every class period, except to take short, audible breaths, which were so numerous we often counted them rather than listen to what she was saying.
Anyways, all of that pales in light of the gross misinformation she gave out at times. This one time, she said that there were only 6 adjectives in the English language that ended in -ly. Now, I understood that -ly is primarily the domain of adverbs. But I counted over 30 such adjectives over the course of five minutes, sitting there in class. I decided to make it my goal to collect as many -ly adjectives as I could, as a lasting testament to how much monkey nuts she sucked. And I collected quite a few. And they're on this website...somewhere. They're hidden in a super-secret place. I challenge you, our readers, to find them. I have no doubt that both of you are smart enough to follow the clues and track those adjectives down...especially when there's actually no clues, it just sounded better to say there were.
If you find them, let us know about your success in the comments. The first person who finds them gets a special prize!
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2/11/2007 01:20:00 AM
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