This Sports Illustrated article (“Wimpiest/most bizarre team names”) reinforces traditional standards of masculinity:
Dude, really? Wimpy team names and you leave out the NYU Violets? They have a hockey team…a HOCKEY team called the “Violets”. That ranks up there with the Peoria “Prancers.”
– Jarod, Elmhurst, Ill.
Violet: a color. Also a name for girls. Also associated with [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘absurdity’
August 5, 2008
excuse me, I’m not wimpy.
July 3, 2008
it’s “it’s,” not “its”
sorry, Google:
Although as a reflection of society – more people must enter in “its” to cause Google to attempt to fix my “it’s” – I’m not sure whether this indicates that Google users have bad grammar or whether Google users are just extraordinarily lazy and don’t want to type that extra apostrophe. Probably both.
May 14, 2008
not a good way to pick up girls.
Katherine Zoepf has been doing a NYTimes blog series on dating in Saudi Arabia. Her latest entry is about numbering – when Saudi boys drive in cars alongside the cars of Saudi girls and wave their phone numbers on cardboard and send Bluetooth messages, hoping to get some reply.
But I want to draw attention to [...]
April 22, 2008
error: no access because high school students can’t learn about evolution, or they might get bad thoughts.
I was reading Pharyngula while I had some down time in school today. I tried clicking on this link, only to discover:
Basically Sarkar’s piece is a level-headed refute of attacks on evolution (Expelled). A quick look through the comments didn’t reveal anything hugely inflammatory. So why the block? Oh, that’s right. We’re corrupting our children [...]
April 12, 2008
“That’s two answers!”
Today, at Quiz Bowl Districts:
“Find the y-intercept of the equation x^2 + 5x -15 = 0“
Teammate buzzed in, is acknowledged: “(0, -15)”
“Incorrect.”
Other team guessed wrong.
“The correct answer was negative 15.”
Obviously the team challenged the answer. The y-intercept of an equation is a point. A point can be expressed in coordinate form. The moderator was confused. [...]
March 5, 2008
I hate days like today.
Blatant racism, immaturity, physical harassment, annoyance, further disturbance of my already-damaged ears. Oh, the joys of public education. Wait, and I thought I was in a good school system? This city/town is nationally ranked for a good education system, and the school has repeatedly won national awards and has an obscene number of Presidential Scholars. [...]
February 21, 2008
Ridiculousness? You bet.
[Edit] <start sarcasm> Or, Free Speech: It Really Sucks. [/edit]
“That’s ridiculous,” I turned away from my computer screen, lips curled in a sure-to-be-disgusting snarl. Like so many Americans, I depend on my computer to escape from every day worries. Too much homework? No problem, I’ll just go surf through some blogs to take my mind [...]
January 19, 2008
bad joke about a nun.
A couple days ago, my little brother, who suffers from the telling sexually explicit jokes that aren’t even funny symptom that occurs at age 13, told me a bad joke. Warning: Potentially sacrilegious and just plain offensive.
A man gets onto a city bus. He sees a hot nun and wants to have sex with her. [...]
January 16, 2008
Primary school kids and rhetoric.
I attended a PTA Reflections reception last night. At the end of the program, after I listened to countless little kids read their stories and poems and describe their pictures and compositions (of which I could only hear half, having a hearing loss), the PTA representative in the state legislature gave a little speech.
She was [...]
