Just because you can remember trivial facts does not make you intelligent. Intelligence is USING what you know. Making kids memorize and regurgitate facts like what dates the wars started and ended is not the way to grade intelligence. You should be teaching kids basic skills like math and English-these actually allow you to use …
In high school, my homeroom teacher was a Math Teacher named Mr. Hester. During my 11th grade “wild” period, I would come to school with a different hairstyle every day (wayyyy before black girls started doing it!). I would get up an hour early to use an entire can of mousse and hairspray to get …
In high school, I took a French 2 class in the 12th grade. The teacher was from Argentina, I think. How the connection (and why she was in small-town Rocky Mount, NC), I will never know. She let us do a show and tell every friday, but it had to be presented in French. I …
I am not sure if anyone has thought of this before, so I won’t take original credit… A Dinner Party Theme: The Donner Dinner Party! All guests must bring food shaped like body parts. A prize will be given to the best tasting or most realistic. I ran across a site for a bakery that …
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In the mid 80’s, I came up with a jacket design I called Beaucoup Des Visages (that means “many faces” in French). This jacket was made from a hook and loop fabric (think Velcro)-the soft side, obviously. It allowed you to stick things on it that were attached with the “hook” side (the hard side). …
I went to a florist wholesale shop today and saw some weird flowers. Here’s one-they were little pineapples on stalks! Weird! I wanted to eat them! This is something that really grows.
I saw this and had to share… It’s Lady Gaga’s Telephone with our military guys acting it out. This borders on “don’t ask/don’t tell”. LOL Click to view on Youtube
In the 80’s, I came up with an idea for weight loss-Tapeworm Clinics. You would go in for a couple of weeks and have a tapeworm implanted and maintained for some quick weight loss without hunger. Everyone I told this to thought I was crazy. Then, in the 90’s, I saw that you could actually …
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