This episode starts off with our coverage of a rare and recent thunderstorm. Then Jen gives an update on her dental adventures. Next we talk about nightshopping and movies. Then we wrap up the show with a news update on the Minnesota bridge collapse and we also celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Big Mac!
Links:
- “Lunar Eclipse (08-28-07)”
- 300 (buy the movie
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- Live Free Or Die (buy the movie
- The Simpsons Movie
- “Foul Play?”
- “The Big Mac gets its own museum”
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On the strength of your 300 review I’m going to get it out, but with the Simpsons I found that the first half was old rehashed jokes, jokes which have been recycled a dozen times in the show. But … what would replace the Simpsons if/when it goes? It has such a global phenomenon/cash-cow, what will the next thing be?
A film to skip if you are tempted – Transformers. I actually fell asleep and missed the last half hour. I have no plans to go back.
Pidgeons – there are so few pidgeons in London now – I remember when I was a kid, Trafalgar Square was full of them. There was a few people who would take pidgeons and cook them – hence pidgeon pie – it was a staple diet of the poor in the 1700-1800s in the capital as there were so many. But there are so few of them now.
down with the flying rats (aka Pigeons)
Hey guys. Your segment about junk food on campus really hit home and I thought you’d like to know that at my school we no longer server that crap to our students. The lunch wagon does not bring high in sugar/calorie foods and the soda machines only carry water. That’s right, 2 huge vending machines filled with nothing but water.
You might also like to know that last year we were having discipline problems with some kids (Jen, you have no trouble imagining that). I suggested that we stop allowing them to get caffeinated on our time. As a result of my pushing we no longer allow soda, energy drinks or coffee into class. We banned them from the classroom. It took about 2 weeks for the kids to stop bitching and then HEY … they got over it. As a result, our discipline issues went down.
Our school district has a wellness policy (I hate that term) dictating that no “candy” or high in sugar foods be distributed in class. This applies to all grades K-12. Those cupcake parties that we remember as kids … gone! That M&M counting game … GONE! Good for my school district for not contributing to the fatness of our future.
Talk to you soon.
Marc,
Good for your school district! Way to go!
I love that the kids can’t get all over- caffinated at school anymore (at least, not in your school). Glad to hear it has helped with discipline. Makes me wonder what effect it would have had where I was teaching. When I was subbing, I myself was over-caffinated, just to help me to keep up with the little monsters!
No more cupcake parties? That’s awesome! Those are hell to deal with as a teacher.
Come on. Cupcake parties rule.
if you say so shawno !!!
“cupcake party
1. A party hosted by many women where only one man is invited (often times a hired stripper), with the sole purpose of ganging up on him and humiliating him sexually, generally without his knowledge or consent.”
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cupcake+party
How people deform an innocent baked product into something perverted!
Paul Roberts, you have a sick and twisted mind!
With every passing day, it becomes more and more clear to me that I need to check Urban Dictionary before EVERYTHING that I type.
But seriously. Back in my school days, we had a teacher who would often allow for parties that involved massive amounts of lemonade to be consumed by us students. I recall these “lemon parties” fondly.
@Jen from Hyper Nonsense
I have to look up your strange American customs. (!)
What, Lemon Parties are not perverted, puckering up because of the sourness?