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Open Thread * A Relaxin’ One!

By SusanUnPC on December 16, 2008 at 3:30 AM in Current Affairs

Isn’t that great? Reverend Amy found this photo, and some more we’ll be featuring. Just love it.

Open thread!

Ani

Thanks. I needed that.
TeakWoodKite

Oooh!, Painting my toe nails eating Bon-Bon’s. :}
Seattle Moss

Thank you NQ
I have a favorite animal in the world and I love him very much.
Some of you may know him…Knut
http://community.webshots.com/photo/fullsize/2203674020101157261iPvYJp
/www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibsP6XN2dIo&eurl trixta

That’s exactly how I feel now that I’ve just turned in my grades for the semester. I’m officially on holiday! MERRY XMAS, Fellow Pumas!

AND SPECIAL WISHES AND GOOD CHEER TO LARRY, SUSAN, AND ALL OF THE GREAT CONTRIBUTORS AT NQ!!
lark

The Recliner.

Will your students be learning anything on their own during the Christmas break? Anything at all?

No I don’t want you to stress out about the question. No one cares really and relaxing is necessary for the mind to devise a new idea from those things just recently learned from the stressed of studying.

But having said that, will your students be having one aha! moment from the material you taught them this semester?

No I don’t want you to stress over that either. No one cares really and not having an aha! moment doesn’t really mean they are dumb and their brains have stop to function properly.

So, lets face it. Students will use the Christmas break for nothing more than talking on their cell phones and walking around in the mall. They will not bake a cake from scratch, patch up a wall, paint a ceiling and add crown molding to it, sew a new dress, re-upholster a chair, etc.

By the way, do you know how many lazy boy type recliners I have seen lately by the sidewalk waiting to be picked up by the trash man? Three. And all of them had me saying, why are they throwing out that chair? It looks perfectly good. Why do people in America and all over the world throw to the trash perfectly good furniture in need of just minor repairs? In what do they entertain themselves that they don’t have time to learn to do some minor repair to something like a recliner? In talking over the cell phone about what? Where to buy a replacement?

Do you know why they don’t repair their recliner chair? Lets suggest a few possible reasons.
Judy L. NC

LOL…I love that picture, well both pictures of bears in their La-Z-Boys. My last one (1993) was an absolute lemon….on a par with my GM car from 1982. In the first 6 months, all of the seeming 250 staples securing the fabric on the leg rest became unstapled and would jab my calves. This required my missing a day’s work for a warranty repairman coming to the house. In less than two years the fabric went shiny. You’d have thought I never left it. Just like I switched to Japanese cars, I switched to Norwegian Ekornes recliners.
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/ Not Your sweetie

Her bratiness Caroline laid claim to her birth right senate seat
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/her-brattiness-announced-her-expectations/
lark

The bear is asking herself/himself the question: Why do students don’t know anymore what a loose leaf paper is? And even less know what is typing paper? The bear is saying I’m glad for the sake of my relatives in the forest that students know that cutting trees to make paper is bad for the environment. With less paper for students to learn to write on, the more trees for bears to climb. I vote for more dumb students that can’t do math and more trees for bears. The bear is relaxing now.
lark

LOL, are you implying the bear also mimics Caroline Kennedy thinking about herself in her future Senate seat? NOoooooo!
jbjd

I ate lunch with 3 (three) other teachers yesterday. Only 1 of them knew the EC was voting yesterday; she even knew the vote would take place at 3:00. But none of them knew that no one had vetted BO as to Constitutional eligibility; or that no provision of federal or state law said that any governmental official had to.
lark

Norwegian Ekornes recliners

Magnificent. Nothing wrong with fancy. But I don’t have a place for a foot rest like that around my living room. Those are for expansive living rooms.

Those foot rests are really too provocative.
lark

Many teachers are cell phone addicts too. Many are carrying their addiction from their college days. What can be expected then? Copy and paste?
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/ Not Your sweetie

Only 11% believe Obama is clean of corruption
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/only-11-think-obama-is-clean/
wodiej

thanks, cute photo
Tess

Hey, do we (former lifelong) Dems have the corner on unqualified candidates? Obama, Franken, Kennedy. Tell me Tingle Matthews is not our our team?
http://baddemocrat08.wordpress.com csuzeq

It would be hilarious if Chris Mancrush is a Republican.

Can somebody get on the ballot team and accidentally list him as Chris Tingles Mancrush when it’s too late to reprint them?
NYC

What do you think of this?

The election of Barack Obama has inspired one French entrepreneur to create a new soft drink. The maker of Obama Soda says he hopes his beverage, and its namesake, will inspire young people living in some of France’s grimmest housing projects by giving them a little taste of the American dream.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98136439&ft=1&f=1012

Looks like the Obama voodoo is spreading worldwide.
Elliott

It appears that the oblique reference by Drudge last week to the Rezko land deal going back before the grand jury may have had some substance to it. Corsi (not my favorite source) indicates that he has contacted the bank employee recently who filed suit against the Rezko’s lender. Kenneth Conner says he has been re-interviewed since Blogo’s arrest by the FBI and sounds adamant in his allegations. Will this go anywhere? Who knows but it does not sound like Fitz is through with it as the Obama supporters declare nor is it trifling if they are interviewing this guy with all the Blago stuff going on.
workingclass artist

Hmmmm….B A R F !….New Yorkers everywhere should feel insulted…Truly….
Alibe

His brother Jim ran for Lt Governor of PA as a rethuglican with Lynn Swann last election. So is Chris a rethuglican? Ya Betcha! But he is like Obama kind of rethuglican. A politician with right leaning but with a D after their name…or DINO.
lark

Hey, just like me. DINO.
lark

Corsi the magician. Blago may scuff through and through while Rezco may rise to a trauma. Why? Because Rezco is simple to understand and all about money and transactions while Blago is about politicians doing their work – careless of everyone except themselves. And Rezco’s song is quite a tune capable of breaking records.
Sonic Ninja Kitty

I don’t know about upholstery in particular, but I do know that it is cheaper to go buy a reasonably priced piece of clothing from a store than it is to make it. Try pricing the patterns, fabric, and add-ons yourself. Economy of scale!
Diana L. C.

I was just talking about that the other day. Homemade dresses were a sure sign you were not well off when I was growing up. Sewing was the major project at the state fairs in 4-H competition. Who can afford to sew nowadays? No time, and you’re right. It’s done now only to stroke your enjoyment of creating something on your own, while knowing you could have bought it for less.
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Lark — I hope students have “aha” moments in and out of class from the materials that I teach (my fields are in contemporary lit and cultural studies), and from what I hear from former students some of them do. Generally speaking, students work hard and deserve their R&R like everyone else. Many of them are from disadvantaged backgrounds, work during the semester, and are pretty stressed out overall, so I do hope they enjoy and benefit from their academic breaks.

As for practical knowledge and tackling the tasks that you mention above, I doubt that this generation has any inkling about what it is to live a life without cell phones or even to bake a cake from scratch. I do, however, as I grew up on a small farm where my family raised livestock and grew vegetables for our own consumption. Heck, we even milked our own cows and made homemade cheese (actually Mom did)! We used to sew our own clothes too.

As for the present, I am very much into decorating with salvaged materials, etc. for my own home. It is definitely a work in progress though.
lark

A teacher you are! Or a Jedi Master with your right to sit on the Jedi Council.

You must hate when Anakin went to the Jedi Temple and killed all the Jedi trainees. How come no one could see that coming?
Judy L. NC

LOL! Not so fancy….quality.
/www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibsP6XN2dIo&eurl trixta

Lark, I’d love to sit on the Jedi Council, but only if I could don the Princess-Leah (sp?) hairdo. Unfortunately, I’m not up on all of the Star Wars movies (I know, I know . . . they’ve been around for only 30 years!). One decadent weekend, I plan on watching all of them marathon style . . . .

For now, however, I’m hooked on Grouch Marx movies, my favorite being NIGHT AT THE OPERA. NIGHT at the RACES is great too, especially the swing dance number featured in the movie.
/www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibsP6XN2dIo&eurl trixta

The bear is more qualified than CK. Besides as a zoo animal it has had more exposure to us Plebs than the Princess herself.
stodgie

i am cautious with my hopes that fitz bags obama for wrong doing. i so hoped for another fitzmas and what wasn’t to be. so now it is one day at a time.
stodgie

than again fitz might hit on something quite simple. remember what was used in THE FIRM. that’s right mail fraud and over billing. capone, another chicago resident, went down for irs problems. sometimes it is the simple things that can bring you down. didn’t some congress critters get in trouble for hot checks sometime back?
Indy G-Dog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk4lCXt7JKo

“I don’t think you know how I feel –”

No, not you, blind buggered boy of Alabama, now that just was not going to happen, now, was it?

(nusaS said we could write anything we wanted on open threads, so I am).

And I will leave it at that –

The song is beautiful, btw, I was splitting with someone, or so I thought, when it came out, expressed myself with the usual lugubrious dramatics, in retrospect, not worth it at all, we make trades through life, better to be free.

But I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now –