Comments on: WordsDay – welcome, spring!

By: Jim Booth

Jim Booth — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:32:45 +0000

Let’s see – making students memorize something so that one of the greatest poems in the language stays with many of them, especially the best of them, them for 30+ years deserves a punch-up?

Gee, I thought you liked larnin, JS…

By: JS O'Brien

JS O'Brien — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:27:04 +0000

Well, it’s never too late.

By: Dr. Slammy

Dr. Slammy — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:08:31 +0000

At that point in time we were all still afraid of him.

By: JS O'Brien

JS O'Brien — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:56:51 +0000

Sam,

I still think the professor deserved a punch in the face.

By: Dr. Slammy

Dr. Slammy — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:33:18 +0000

Okay, JS, think about it. You know where I went to school. And you’ve dealt with Booth. So you know that memorizing Chaucer in Middle English was superior to the BEST that any of the other teachers would have had to offer. Jeez, you should have met some of those harridans…

By: JS O'Brien

JS O'Brien — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:37:35 +0000

Sam,

He made you MEMORIZE Chaucer in middle English???? And you didn’t drop the class?

What the hell’s the matter with you?

By: JS O'Brien

JS O'Brien — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:07:29 +0000

April is the cruelest month

By: Brian Angliss

Brian Angliss — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:01:08 +0000

ahhhhh, that ee cummings poem i despise the man for grammer his utter lack of capitalization punctuation everyone who emulates his style

even badly
like this

but his poems are still amazing

By: Dr. Slammy

Dr. Slammy — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:36:02 +0000

Sweet jesus, I still know every syllable of that Chaucer prologue by heart. And it’s been 30 years since you forced me to memorize it, you bastard.