Thursday, December 4, 2008

What I Might Name My Kids

1. Leviticus
2. Lucifer
3. Zinfandel
4. Balthazar
5. Magdalyna
6. Mieczyslaw
7. Astrid
8. Manifest Destiny
9. Gwennifer
10. Aayaat
11. Octavia
12. Laertes
13. Pertussis
14. Quetzalcoatl
15. Damascus
16. Tuppence
17. Xerxes
18. Nebuchadnezzar

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Top 10 Reasons to Eat Fire

1. The calories are already burned for you.
2. It coats your throat (much like tomato soup).
3. It's a finger food.
4. It probably tastes like chicken.
5. You feel like a dragon.
6. It comes in different colors.
7. Your stomach can act as a hot plate.
8. Instead of having the sensation of hotness (like that which is caused by chili peppers), it actually is hot.
9. You make food with it, so really, you're cutting out the middleman.
10 You won't need to get x-rays on your stomach anymore.

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Sonnet 26

Prompt: Create an appropriate title for Edmund Spenser's Sonnet 26 (Read here: http://www.ogtprep.com/readings/sonnet26.htm)

Response:

First of all, I don't know who this Edmund Spenser guy is. When I think Sonnet, I think Shakespear. He must not be a very good poet. If I were Spenser, I would name my poem Sonnet 3000 so that people will think that I wrote 2999 sonnets before that one. That's alot of sonnets. I bet that was the only poem he wrote, but he called it Sonnet 26 to make people think he wrote 25 sonnets before that one. I guess he was just being modest. Edmund Spenser is a pretty cool guy, I guess.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Taming of the Shrew

Today I'm going to talk to you about about The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespear. William Shakespear wrote lots of dramas. A drama is a play where dramatic things happen.

Katherine hated all men. She hated her sister. She beat her sister with a piece of stick or whatever she could find around the house. She met this guy and they went to a party at his castle. Then they went back to her castle while her father was away and made it all niece.

That is all I can think off.

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Gladiatoring M and Ms (tm)

An awesome person who thinks the same way I do:

Whenever I get a package of plain M&Ms, I make it my duty to continue the strength and robustness of the candy as a species. To this end, I hold M&M duels. Taking two candies between my thumb and forefinger, I apply pressure, squeezing them together until one of them cracks and splinters. That is the "loser," and I eat the inferior one immediately. The winner gets to go another round. I have found that, in general, the brown and red M&Ms are tougher, and the newer blue ones are genetically inferior. I have hypothesized that the blue M&Ms as a race cannot survive long in the intense theatre of competition that is the modern candy and snack-food world. Occasionally I will get a mutation, a candy that is misshapen, or pointier, or flatter than the rest. Almost invariably this proves to be a weakness, but on very rare occasions it gives the candy extra strength. In this way, the species continues to adapt to its environment. When I reach the end of the pack, I am left with one M&M, the strongest of the herd. Since it would make no sense to eat this one as well, I pack it neatly in an envelope and send it to M&M Mars, A Division of Mars, Inc., Hackettstown, NJ 17840-1503 U.S.A., along with a 3x5 card reading, "Please use this M&M for breeding purposes." This week they wrote back to thank me, and sent me a coupon for a free 1/2 pound bag of plain M&Ms. I consider this "grant money." I have set aside the weekend for a grand tournament. From a field of hundreds, we will discover the True Champion. There can be only one....

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Facts About Dik-Diks

http://www.awf.org/content/wildlife/detail/dikdik

1. Female dik-diks are larger than male dik-diks.
2. Male dik-diks have short horns that are slanted backward.
3.The head of the dik-dik is disproportionately larger than its body.
4. Dik-diks will move when the grass gets too tall for for them to see over.
5. Dik-diks live in shrubby areas with lots of hiding places.
6. Dik-diks have runways into their territory to block off other dik-diks, mostly females.
7. The dik-dik reached sexual maturity in 6-8 months.
8. Dik-diks have special shaped heads to fit between the thorns on the Acacia tree.
9. Dik-diks are nocturnal.
10.Salt is important in the dik-dik's diet.

Saturday, July 12, 2008

Top 10 Reasons to Live Underground

1. No one gets to be the boss of you because no one else lives underground yet (subways don't count).
2. You're allergic to UV light or SPF (the latter for me).
3. You won't get hit by lightning.
4.Moss is one of your favorite things to eat.
5. Also, fungi.
6. There is an unlimited supply of rocks.
7. You can make all the mud pies you want.
8.You've always wanted to be a hermit.
9. Money is stupid. Rocks are better.
10. No sunburns.

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Freddy the Fish Goes to the Carnival (A Cautionary Tale)

Freddy the Fish, happy as can be,
Ran into the fair whilst swimming through the sea.
All the rides looked fun
As they glistened in the sun,
But fun can turn to fright, so take care.

Brightly adorned with feathers and flair
Sat all of the rides at the annual fair.
Freddy was warned 'bout the dangers they brought,
Yet it was a thrill that young Freddy sought.
Beware, my Freddy, beware!

Scalawag Pete
Sat in his seat
With rod and hook and bait in hand
Waiting silently, patiently
For something to bite.

Fred did not see the sharpened point
That hid below the orange cheese;
All it takes is just one bite
To get you hauled out of the seas.

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

A Poem About Apples

A is for apple, that's good enough for me.
P is for pineapple, which has the word apple in it.
P is for pine tree, which has pine in it but not apple.
L is for lemurs; they don't eat apples.
E is for endocrine system; it tells you to do things like eat apples.

More Risks

Wearing a backpack is one of the greatest risks one can ever take in their life. I usually avoid wearing a backpack and instead, I carry all of my belongings from class to class with my arms. Anyway, let me explain about the backpack. It's behind you (which is why the "back" part of backpack is there) so you can't see what it's doing. It could all of a sudden tighten its straps and strangle you three-quarters of the way to death. That's enough for brain damage. Also, some people might put unwanted things in your 'pack like a cabbage or some crayons. Cabbages have bugs and sand in them, and sometimes they don't get all of the bugs out at the cabbage factory, and I'm afraid of being swarmed and covered by ants and flies and spiders and other cabbagey bugs. Crayons are made of wax, and bees make wax, and sometimes, bees get caught in the wax at the crayon factory. The wax acts as a preserving agent, so the bees are basically in suspended animation until they burst into life and sting you 3946723 times. Not only that, they are the WRONG COLOR because of the dye.

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Best Things to Never Eat

I've derived this list from personal experiences, and I hope that my mistakes will someday be your triumphs.

1. Airplanes of any sort--Their size is simply unwieldy.

2. Turkey basters-- That little bulb at the end makes it problematic.

3. Any electronics, especially with salt-- Sodium conducts electricity you see...Oh ions!

4.Abstract nouns-- They don't satisfy one's appetite to say the least.

5. Lead-- I was attempting to live like the Romans, and I read somewhere that they seasoned their food with lead.

6.Medicine ball-- The sand inside them is rather unpleasant.

7. Popsicle sticks-- While the popsicle that was once on it was delicious, the stick certainly is not.

8.Bo Staff (even one that is less than your height)-- It's sort of like a giant popsicle stick if you think about it so by the transitive property, this one is also not a good one to try.

9.Gravel--Pigeons need it to digest their food. You don't.

10. Any woodwind instruments-- They will not make every exhale sound magnificent.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

If I Were a Color...

If I were a color, I'd be rainbow. Rainbows go hand-in-hand with unicorns, and I've always wanted to be one. They are mystical magical majestic creatures that are like horses, but better because they have a golden horn that sticks out of their forehead plus they're magic. Their hair is also iridescent which is like rainbow, but lighter, and shimmery like glitter and sequins, which I also like. If you wear as much glitter and sequins as I do, you'll notice how it reflects rainbows EVERYWHERE (!) like a disco ball, which is a whole ball of giant glitter. Rainbows have pots of gold at the end of them too, and gold is like giant glitter, but you can buy stuff like unicorns with it. I hear the price is at over $900 an ounce, so you could buy a lot of unicorns with that or go to A.C. Moore and buy a whole ton of glitter. Literally 2000 pounds of pure glitter. Or like a bazillion bedazzles. Sometimes glitter reflects just plain light, but I've been told that there's a whole rainbow in there and if you use a prism or another type of glitter, you can see the rainbow. I also like Skittles, and if I could really taste the rainbow, I imagine it would taste like Skittles. Not Skittles gum because gum is dangerous to swallow, but swallowing a rainbow isn't. If they made a Skittles cotton candy, that would be perfect.

Risks

I am taking a risk right now by typing this post. At this very moment, the desk could fall apart, and I will have nowhere to hide if there is an air raid. I have air raid drills in the middle of class sometimes, just to be on the safe side, but my teachers don't understand. They take points off of my participation grade, but I figure that it's better to not die in an air raid than have bad participation. One time there was an actual air raid in school, but everyone went outside instead of hiding under their desks (they would have known to do this if they had been practicing like me). Everyone thought I pulled the alarm, but I didn't.

There are risks with everything, like wearing bubble wrap, which I've done several times. If you wear it too long, you can get gangrene from not allowing your skin to breathe. I had to get my foot amputated, and now I have a wooden one. I get literal shin splint(er)s, and people call me peg leg. It really hurts me because I'm afraid of pirates. Pirates probably have a lot of gangrene, but not because they wear bubble wrap. Also, some people think it's safe to wear aluminum foil hats, but if you wear them in the middle of summer, it gets really hot and, like me, you can get heat stroke and a terrible rash. I'm still afraid of having my brain controlled by the government, so I made a suit of lead because of its ability to protect you from x-ray radiation. I got some pretty bad chemical burns from it.

Okay, so This One Time...

Ok, so this one time I was watching the History Channel at night during a thunderstorm. They were playing a special about the apocalypse (I know real smart to watch that at night). Then, right when they got to the part where they were talking about how it was very possible that the world would end soon, the power went out and the transformer exploded outside (I didn't know it was the transformer at the time). I was so scared that I fell out of my bed. Unfortunately for me, I have a loft bed. Ow.
Ok. So this one time, I was camping in the middle of winter with the Girl Scouts and it was my job to watch the baked potatoes and turn them in the fire. Unfortunately for me, the girls neglected to figure out how I was supposed to turn them before they threw all of the foil covered potatoes in there. I tried moving them with sticks, but they didn't turn; they just moved around. Eventually, I just gave up on the sticks, put on a pair of leather gloves, and turned them with my hands. I managed not to catch on fire because I was quick about taking my hand in and out of the fire; I didn't want to burn any of the hair off of my arms like I had last summer.
Ok, so this one time, I was bored, so I decided to pretend I was hunting in the jungle. I took out my marshmallow gun and started running around the house and shooting random things with it. I think I got a little carried away cuz I pumped up the gun a little too much once or twice, causing a few things to get broken. I stopped then. Marshmallow guns are awesome!
Ok, so this one time when I was sitting on the couch in the living room, and all of a sudden th-- alright, I'll cut to the point. Never eat raspberries.
Ok, so this one time I was at my friend's house and I decided it would be cool to watch TV upside-down on the couch and drink a juice box. Apparently Bridgette thought it would be cool to do the same. Then, I laughed while drinking and I got a load of grape juice in my sinuses, which caused Bridgette to laugh and get some in hers. It resulted in a sinus infection.
Moral: Upside-down drinking means you ain't been thinking.
Ok, so this one time in Mr. Shorey's science class, we didn't have anything to do, so we watched a movie. Let me tell you: it was the most boring movie EVER. It was so boring I don't even remember what it was about. sooooooooo... I piled up the books on my desk to prop my head up in case I fell asleep so it would look like I was watching. The bell rang and my friend Meghan asked me what I thought about the movie. I said that I really like the part when the boot was skydiving from the plane and that I really wasn't quite sure how it related to the subject we were studying. Meghan told me that nothing like that happened at all during the movie. I must have fallen asleep and dreamed that I was watching the movie.

Freddy the Fish Visits the North Pole

One day, Freddy the fish decided that he needed a vacation from all of that nice tropical water that he lived in, so he thought that he should take a trip to the North Pole. He knew it would be a long way to go, so he asked Pirate Jill to help him get there. I don't understand why he'd do that, though, because Pirate Jill is, more often than not, under the influence of one or more illicit substances. Lucky for Freddy, this was one of her good days.
"So, you want to get to the North Pole, right? Which way is that?"
"Uhh...north?" Freddy responded. If this was one of her good days, he didn't want to know how the other ones went.
"Well, let's see. I think that means you will need an octopus and a catapult in case you need to climb the rigging of the ship. You have a ship, right? If you don't, then you need a ship. I used to have a ship once, but then I lost it when I went berry-picking. Ship is a funny word, isn't it? C'mon! Say it with me! Shhhhhhhhhh...shhhhhhhip.Ship."
"Nope, I don't have one. Do you think Pirate Pete will let us borrow his?"
"NO WAY! After you tricked him out of all that toast? I don't think so. We'll have to steal it."
Pirate Jill and Freddy drove up in their Pinto to the Arbor Day Harbor and cut the boat from the dock. Unfortunately, because Jill was running the show, they forgot to get in the boat first, so it sailed away without them. To make matters worse, Pirate Pete was standing right there, and he, too, remembered the three pieces of toast Freddy hadn't given him.
"Argh, m'hearty! You're lucky I don't charge interest on the toast you still owe me. I think I will take you to medium claims court since the boat is too big for small claims but too small for supreme court," an outraged Pirate Pete yelled.
I think at this point in the story, Jill has now sobered up from whatever it was she was using because she essentially tricks Pete into taking them all to the North Pole.
" Now, Pete, I know you're upset, so to get the most money, I think you should definitely try the justice system at the North Pole. I hear that the plantiff has always gotten way more than they wanted. Too bad Freddy and I don't have enough money to fly there..."
"Hmmm... That seems like a reasonable idea. I will take us all up to the North Pole and take you both for every penny you have!"
Once they got there, Jill and Freddy ran away, and once again, Pirate Pete was an old, cold, hungry scalliwag.
The End

Pirate Pete and the Toast Trick

One day, Freddy the Fish was swimming under Pirate Pete's boat when he suddenly got pulled up from the water in a fishing net. It turns out Pirate Pete was in the mood for fish sticks, so he got himself a net and tried his hand at fishing.
When he pulled up his net, he found Freddy the Fish in it.
"Alright! I'm having fish sticks tonight!" he said.
"Hey! How'd I get in this net?" asked Freddy the Fish.
"You swam in my net. DUH! Now you're going to be fish sticks." Pirate Pete replied.
"Tell you what, if you let me go, I'll give you three pieces of toast"
Not being one to turn down crispy, brown toast, Pirate Pete quickly accepted the offer. However,Pirate Pete neglected to realize that there is no bread or electric appliances with which to toast the bread in the ocean. He had been tricked.
"Argh, me hearty! I've been hornswaggled! Curse ye Freddy the Fish!"
And so Pirate Pete lived the rest of his life a hungry, lonely scalliwag.
THE END