Thursday, January 29, 2009

You Can't Pet a Fish


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Now, back to my regularly scheduled blog...

It turns out that The Wailers' show last evening was sold out . . . and anyway, intellikid said I couldn't stay out late on a school night. It's probably for the best, since my entertainment budget these days is practically nil, and since I wasn't up late last night, I was able to stay alert during class this evening.

Obviously not everyone in my class was alert, however. A few slackers didn't have the online homework assignment done; nevertheless, the professor went over the answers in class. After I got home and checked e-mail, I saw that two of the students completed the assignment after class. I was able to see their responses to the questions -- and they both got one of the answers, basically a multiple-choice reply, WRONG.

And in case you were wondering, neither of them are former president Bush.

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  1. Back in the a.m. to comment on this strange turn of events. I WAS up late last night and at this point, I'm not even sure whose blog I'm on...reading...at (after the at?)...jeez. A two part multi-choice question?

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  2. Well hell, any damned fool can have a dog. Get an ostrich...think of the egg money you would save!

    The Bushettes in your class must be of the old school regarding multiple-choice tests...when in doubt, choose B.

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  3. I thought you couldn't TUNE a fish...

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  4. jaded, the two in question are Education Administration majors. I guess that explains it. (Bushettes? Surely you are not implying a gender bias -- because both genders were equally represented in the sample.)

    Doug, you used to not be able to tune a fish, but then the Chinese figured out a way, slapped the suckers -- or bass -- on a lacquered plaque, and started charging $29.99 for them.

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  5. Have you been talking to my wife? That's the term I use for all Bushy followers, regardless of gender. No bias intended. How about Bushiphiles? It's more difficult to say, but it passed the wife test.

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  6. Bushiphiles it shall be. Commendations to the wife.

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  7. As soon as she gets back from her Tupperware party, I will.

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  8. Who the hell has a Tupperware party at 9 in the morning??? Sounds like a ruse to me.

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  9. Maybe she's out buying you that ostrich...

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  10. Oyster...she went to get me an oyster.

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