Path: news.ccsf.jp!norn-news!news.heimat.gr.jp!news.snarked.org!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!unknown!not-for-mail From: mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: How the world has changed Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 06:18:57 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Subtlties R'nt Us Lines: 26 Sender: scjmmod@haven.eyrie.org Message-ID: References: <3670dd16-f11b-46ec-9190-749480d9a060@en1g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> <9e5409ee-538d-4a46-b4a3-64a2dca5015a@h17g2000vbz.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: mtfester@netscape.net NNTP-Posting-Host: haven.eyrie.org X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1314969537 13922 166.84.7.159 (2 Sep 2011 13:18:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu User-Agent: tin/1.9.3-20080506 ("Dalintober") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.35.4-xen3-U (i686)) Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:170203 Declan Murphy wrote: > On Sep 1, 12:55?pm, mtfes...@netMAPSONscape.net wrote: > > John W. wrote: > > > On Aug 31, 8:20?am, mtfes...@netMAPSONscape.net wrote: > > > > John W. wrote: > > > > > On Aug 30, 10:58?pm, mtfes...@netMAPSONscape.net wrote: > > > > > > Must be a Tennessee thing... > > > > > > > I think the teacher went to some conferences this summer and got some > > > > > "good ideas" on how to teach the parts of speech. > > > > > > I suppose it could have been worse; his teacher could have gone to a > > > > conference in Kansas or Texas and gotten some "good ideas" on how to > > > > teach evolution... > > > > > We have those fights around here, too. If ignorance is bliss, this is > > > the happiest city in America. > > > > I'm going to start selling a bumper sticker for those people: > > "I reject the basic tenets of science... and I vote." > I hereby steal that idea. Thanks. You owe me a beer. Mike