Speaking of teachers and students going head to head at Chris’ school it might not have made the national public’s headlines yet but once again Norfolk’s got problems; This time it’s Chris’ Deputy Head. I guess Faye was wrong when she assumed kids at CHS just aren't that attractive. Yip he’s not allowed out on bail right now and is going to trial soon for nasty things to an under 16 year old girl – whose about the same age as his kids. Chris is not allowed to say anything legally, but then he doesn’t know anything about it, except he’s pretty sure the teachers aren’t going to win this time.
In other news, I’ve know of Wikipedia for quite a while now, but thanks to the brilliance that is this on-line encyclopedia of everything you ever did/didn’t need to know I now know more useless trivia than I ever thought I could.
Like did you know that:
- In Canada their cream soda is usually pink.
- The root in root beer is sarsaparilla root or sassafras root bark.
- Maple sap is boiled to make maple syrup in a "sugar shanty", "sugar shack", "sugarhouse" or "cabane à sucre".
- Robert Lincoln’s (Abe’s only surviving son) life was saved by Edwin Booth (John Wilkes’ brother).
- There are no Lincolns left – the blood line died out on December 24, 1985.
- A banana plant is a herb and often mistaken for a tree.
- In the Netherlands during 1530 till 1532 storm floods caused the village of Kreke to disappear.
- Ixnay and Amscray are the only Pig Latin phrases to be used in common English.
- Americans call sweet potatoes - yams, but they are not yams or even a potato; they are a tuber and more closely related to the carrot.
- Cadbury’s Cream Eggs in the States are made by Hershey’s.
- And I also found this beauty:
Extra points to anyone who can tell me who he is.
7 comments:
Hello,
Is it er... Stan?
Yes Tom, you are very smart! But now who is Stan? And how does he put the FUN back into FUNerals?
Stan is an annoying, but nice person. He sells used ships on Melee Island and has a ship for everyone. He likes to talk a lot and promote his own business, but he also hands out useful commercial items. It does not take him long to convince Guybrush what ship he need and at what price. Unfortunately, Guybrush is a hard bargainer and forces Stan to lower his price.
i'm cheating.
Tom, I'll give you a point for effort and research. But where is Leeson who would surely know this point-and-click adventurer? Probably has a three-headed monkey behind him.
Speaking of research, I was under the impression that staff vs. pupils football matches were outlawed after (No stereotyping here) there were a lot of injuries inflicted onto the members of staff.
That's what we're telling the kids at our school anyway.
Note - this is a true story; a game was proposed, but quickly pooh-poohed.
At Chris' school they play against the sixth form, so they are better behaved, and I'm suprised it's not the other way around as one teacher is a bit of a bull and plays mean. One of the students got a head injury, oops!
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