Category: Education
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Word Alert!!
Holy cow!! I just realized how much the words "euphamism" and "emphysema" look alike! So, I thought I'd better get on the old blog to alert my readers to the potential confusiality of these two completely unrelated terms. Now one is the act or an example of substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for one…
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Advice From Grandma
My Grandma used to say, “Never trust a skinny Italian…or an Irishman that doesn’t swear…or a tall Cambodian, or an Austrian with a small mustache, or cattle, or a German with a small head, or people that have a criminal record, or people that keep records of criminals, or malt shop owners, or the Taliban,…
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The Global Threat of T-Shirts
Well, if you’re like me, and I hope you’re not, then you’ve already heard about the contentious t-shirts that kids are wearing to school these days. Well, I recall a day when Sister Mary Screamsalot would whack you in the face with a yard stick if your pants fell down by accident on the playground. …
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Cano’s Corner
Brro-brro-brro-brro-brodder! Most people no saben que back in 1912, Hellmann's mayonnaise estaba hecho in England. In fact, the Titanic was cargando like 12,000 jars of the stuff para deliver in Veracruz, Mexico, which was la proxima port of call for the ship after it stopped in Nueva York. This would have been lo mas grande…