Thanks for posting this Zemat; I didn't want to break the single post a day rule, especially when one would be for a mefi repost.
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Good Christ this is funny. At the same time, I saw a lot of this in my freshman english class at college. The teacher said he felt a vocational compulsion to continue teaching despite his hatred of many freshmen's attitudes and subliterate papers.
Monkeyfilter : We refuse to satiate the Peruvian gods
Yes, Jeremy's style is fascinating -- he's privy to many interesting facts concerning the Peruvian gods, etc.
"I wish I could come up with this kind of writing myself."
Tried booze? How about a sharp blow to the back of the head?
Done already, Both. Mediocre results in comparison. Haven't you read my blog?
"Needless to say, this didn't work and everyone died."
Priceless. Thank you for reposting. I didn't even notice it on MeFi.
I need to pass this on to my friends in Atmospheric Sciences, there are clearly things 'many of these "scientists"' do not understand about things about weather that this author knows things about.
There should be a not safe while drinking coffee (nswdc) warning, I almost "redecorated" my office while reading the line "In Peru, they have many names for many things. One of the things they have names is for people who go fishing..." It just caught me off guard, I should have known better after the priceless first paragraph.
This kid totally has a future writing Adam Sandler movies.
There is no escape. Lightning will knock down the tree and knock down your soul. Trees are tall.
Many things are tall. Many things attract lightning. But do the two correlate? A recent study says yes.
If this kid had an online journal, I'd read it every day.
A coworker says it's like a really bright markov chain algorithm with obsessive-compulsive disorder about lightning and trees and being knocked over.
It's like reading the side of a Dr. Bronner's bottle.
Imagine, fighting the power of the gods with flashlight batteries! Needless to say, this didn't work and everyone died.
Best essay conclusion, possibly ever?
Our boy Jeremy has definite talent! His essays remind me of a book called "The Some Other Stuff Happened" edited by Bill Lawrence an 8th grade history teacher in Pine Bluff, AR. If you can track it down, it is pure comedy gold.
From the title inspiring piece:
"World War I started when this archiduke guy got assinated in a little place called Serbia (green on the map). This guy, whose name was Frances Something, was hair to the throne of Austria-Hungry. One of his students named Boznia shot him one day by jumping on the runnerboard of his car and killed him in cold blood. Then this other guy got on the throne and said 'France did it.' Then some other stuff happened."
Not everyone can be hair to a throne. But assination, now -- why that can happen to any monkey!
EEEEEven me!
I was assinated in my serbia once. I walked funny for two weeks. Damn thing still acts up when snow's on the way.
ExaaaAAAActly.
MonkeyFilter: Fighting the power of the gods with flashlight batteries.
There should be a not safe while drinking coffee (nswdc) warning, I almost "redecorated" my office while reading the line "In Peru, they have many names for many things. One of the things they have names is for people who go fishing..." It just caught me off guard, I should have known better after the priceless first paragraph.