Comments on: Someone Wasn’t Paying Attention In School

By: Dr. BDH

Dr. BDH — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:37:46 +0000

That is one beautiful truck. Jes’ sayin’…

By: Anne Laurie

Anne Laurie — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 07:39:14 +0000

He played this game *a lot*?

Yeah, and he’s still bitter at every single one of his opponents. Also the people who stood around laughing while he scrambled around picking up cards. And he’s kinda suspicious of the inventors of playing cards as well…

By: Mo's Bike Shop

Mo's Bike Shop — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:11:55 +0000

Jesus, Peanuts did the 52 Card Pick Up joke–back when Snoopy looked like a dog!

He played this game a lot?

By: Left_wing_fox

Left_wing_fox — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:42:32 +0000

We called it “Cowboys”.

P: “You wanna play ‘Cowboys?’”

V: “Um, ok.”

spray cards in victim’s face.

P: “Round ‘em up.”

By: Jeremiah

Jeremiah — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:04:24 +0000

52 pick-up bit was hilarious!

By: isaac

isaac — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:30:06 +0000

it’s 52 pick-up and it’s only funny if you say, ‘i’ll deal’ cause then when you spray the cards all over the place; it’s like you’re ‘dealing’ — get it?

By: ahem

ahem — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:17:56 +0000

What an idiot. Itâ€™s â€œ52 Pickup.â€?

And it’s ‘Pick Up 52′ in countries where that particular form of vehicle is less common.

Hey, Dr Edmonson– how do you keep an idiot in suspense?

By: tigrismus

tigrismus — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:50:48 +0000

But how do we assess the merit of a recent interdisciplinary program â€œPower, Politics, & Tolkien: One course to rule them allâ€œ? Who are the experts? Led Zeppelin? Leonard Nimoy? And from which department is assessment made? Philosophy? Ethics? Political Science and Public Administration?

By: Hysterical Woman

Hysterical Woman — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:48:05 +0000

When I was college searching, I found a book that seemed helpful til I realized it was just a conservative scred. It was complaining about how the core requirment classes are just fluff these days. Now, I’m not say that some college classes are fluff, but I noticed that the classes hated on were usually ones that dealt with women, non-whites, or sex. I forget the title of the book though.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:33:28 +0000

in what dicipline would you NOT teach students what they really need to know? Medicine? Law? Oh, I know! I know! Engineering! All they need is Classical Dicipline!

By: islmfaoscist

islmfaoscist — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:24:26 +0000

St. John of the Cross (1542 - 1592) Poet, Mystic Known as the Mystic Doctor for his poetry and commentary about solitary prayer which entails steadfastly suffering aridity, misery, depression and spiritual abandonment, in addition to normal ascetic practices, in order to purify the soul in preparation for divine union with God. I simply can't imagine where the guy got his hangup with sex, sexuality, and hip hop.

By: wordyeti

wordyeti — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:19:28 +0000

Dammit! That’s two (2) shout-outs to “Ramble On” in the same week!

Now I gots me an earworm. How to get rid of it … ? Oh yeah.

Calling Dr. Sammich. Dr. Sammich to the mp3 player Plee-yuz.

By: nick

nick — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:08:39 +0000

He probably fell for Tic-Tac-Ow more than once too.

I’m guessing he also came out on the short end of the “Here, Taste This” stick a few thousand times….

By: Sarcastro

Sarcastro — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:55:54 +0000

So, in abandoning the “disciplines” and giving students “what they really need to know” we are discarding a proven method of organization–admittedly arbitrary, imperfect, Western, “logo-centric,” “traditional” etc.–in favor of a new scheme of organization that is arbitrary, unproven, and may vary according to the personalities and prejudices of those involved.

Intelligent Design!?

By: Jâ€”

Jâ€” — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:43:16 +0000

From the syllabus for Henderson’s course “Power, Politics, & Tolkien: One course to rule them all“:

In addition to class readings, we will also view generous portions of the recent Peter Jackson adaptation of the Lord of the Rings and even spend a “Merry” evening or two in a Milledgeville venue playing Lord of the Rings “Risk” and Lord of the Rings “Trivial Pursuit,” in part to raise money for those who might wish to take advantage of the summer study abroad.

In spite of the junkets, fun and games, only serious students should enroll in “Power, Politics and Tolkien.”

[â€¦]

Attendance will be monitored: excessive absences and chronic tardiness will not be tolerated so that students must make a “hobbit” of regular, engaged and punctual class attendance and assignment submission. No wizardry will substitute for shire-like diligence in the course.

The syllabus ends with a quote from internationally renowned Tolkien scholars Page and Plant:

” ’twas in the darkest depths of Mordor, mm-I met a girl so fair
but Gollum and the evil one crept up and slipped away with her”
—”Ramble On” by Led Zeppelin

I would’ve gone with something from “The Lemon Song,” but here we see why Henderson is teaching at GCSU and I’m futzing about the internets.

By: Principal Blackman

Principal Blackman — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:37:03 +0000

He probably fell for Tic-Tac-Ow more than once too.

Not to mention the Hertz Donut and the Soft Punch Contest.

By: Bloggofascist

Bloggofascist — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:33:40 +0000

Hell, most people never use what they got their degree in anyway. If they want to take a course on “Theological Symbolism in Modern Pornography”, let them. It will give them pleasant memories at least when their white collar job gets outsourced to India.

By: Herr Doktor Bimler

Herr Doktor Bimler — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:20:22 +0000

A college education is not like â€œ52 Card Pick-Upâ€?…

It’s a pity we can’t read the earlier drafts of his column, where he started by explaining the rules of Monopoly… Then he tried Snakes & Ladders…

Let’s face it, a college education is a long-drawn-out drinking game.

By: Robert Green

Robert Green — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:18:07 +0000

so i read edmondson’s piece, and i only have one thing to ask him, really fast:

A sphincter says what?

By: a different brad

a different brad — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:13:25 +0000

Does this mean my graduate program on Exposed Breasts in 80s College Comedy Flicks isn’t going to be accredited by the wingnut authority?
Goddamnit
Why didn’t he write that column before I’d spent 30k on tuition?