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Lkunkel
| Sunday, January 04, 2004 - 9:19 pm
"Dumb as a box of rocks" is an old saying about stupidity. My 90-plus year old grandma taught me that one before she died in 1982. According to The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition, 2002: six of one, half a dozen of the other The alternatives are the same: "I can take the bus or the subway to get home; during rush hour, it's six of one, half a dozen of the other." The phrase, which is sometimes inverted as "half a dozen of one, six of the other," is merely two ways of expressing the number six. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Jed245
| Sunday, January 04, 2004 - 9:32 pm
Very good Lkunkel, but, can you explain.... Naana Naana boo boo.. ? ;o)
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Lkunkel
| Sunday, January 04, 2004 - 9:48 pm
Jed: "Nonny nonny boo boo" is generally considered meaningless syllables used in playground retorts and fracases. However, "nonny" is a silly fellow; a ninny. "Boo," meanwhile, is a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt; it's also slang for marijuana. So, it is correctly perceived by other children as an insult.
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Rosie
| Sunday, January 04, 2004 - 10:06 pm
Thanks Lkunkel, I was thinking that Nonny nonny boo boo was part of an oldie song...........
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Rosie
| Sunday, January 04, 2004 - 10:09 pm
Jed, do the rocks have names and are they "pet rocks"?
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Juju2bigdog
| Sunday, January 04, 2004 - 10:34 pm
Rosie, you are thinking of the Shakespeare play Much Ado About Nothing where the refrain of one of the songs is "Hey Nonny Nonny." http://education.yahoo.com/reference/shakespeare/plays/1623.html
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Rosie
| Sunday, January 04, 2004 - 10:46 pm
LOL Juju
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Jed245
| Monday, January 05, 2004 - 6:55 am
Uhh I dunno Rosie, but, I suppose we could name them. Er then again we're calling the rocks dumb so not sure if we should name them. Then again I haven't heard one single word back from the rocks after all this name calling/insulting. So the least we can do is name them.... I wanna call this one freddy

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Jed245
| Monday, January 05, 2004 - 6:58 am
hmmm .... I wonder why that didn't work?
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Mak1
| Monday, January 05, 2004 - 7:33 am
dunno...it was dumb, wasn't it? hi freddy!
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Lkunkel
| Monday, January 05, 2004 - 10:56 am
Jed: I have a pet rock in my pocket, actually. She speaks to me every time I pull her out of my pocket. She only says one thing, tho: "organization."
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Reader234
| Monday, January 05, 2004 - 11:47 am
At school today we were given a whole sheet of "Hard Questions" "Is there another word for synonym?" Why do the report power outages on TV If corn oil comes from corn, where does baby oil come from" How did a fool and his money get together? Is anal retentive hyphenated? What was the best thing before sliced bread? (there are more of these!)
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Lkunkel
| Monday, January 05, 2004 - 11:49 am
Reader: I remember those....they are fun.
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Wargod
| Monday, January 05, 2004 - 11:54 am
Ok, little league parents, can you help me out. I have to register the kids this month for little league. Dakota's finally old enough for T-ball, after three years of waiting! Caleb is moving from coach pitch to minors. Why do they have to try out? I thought it was if you signed up and payed, you played. Am I wrong? And if all the kids get to play, why do they have tryouts? What are they looking for with tryouts? With T-ball and coach pitch, all we had to do was sign up and play, then he was randomly put on a team and that was all there was to it.
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Landi
| Monday, January 05, 2004 - 12:15 pm
they try out, so that the teams will be more even, with better players distributed instead of on one single team.
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Wargod
| Monday, January 05, 2004 - 12:30 pm
So it's nothing for him to really be concerned about. Once he heard he had to try out he was a little nervous about his batting.
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Sillycalimomma
| Monday, January 05, 2004 - 12:34 pm
Tag-I posted in your member folder about your "dumb" question
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Tagurit
| Monday, January 05, 2004 - 12:44 pm
Ok Silly. I'm on my way over there.
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Lucy
| Monday, January 05, 2004 - 12:54 pm
War, I actually think it works out better when the kids try out every year (re-draft). That way the coaches can't stack the teams with power players. Some coaches forget that the kids just want to have fun!! Tell Caleb not to worry about it at all. Just tell him to have fun!
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Wargod
| Friday, January 09, 2004 - 6:26 pm
Hey parents, teachers, and science buffs it's time for another DQ from me. Caleb got a microscope/telescope set for Christmas. The microscope comes with one prepared slide and several that aren't, plus assorted stuff (like collection jars, tweezers, etc.) What I want is to find some prepared slides. And ideas on what I can put on slides. We've tried hair, but we're all so fair it's hard to see. What else can I use? Can I find prepared slides somewhere? Any ideas would be appreciated. Poor kids wanted to play with his microscope and really doesn't have much to do with it right now.
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Mocha
| Friday, January 09, 2004 - 6:58 pm
How about a blade of grass? Dog hair? Dead ants or other bugs? Food? Thread? Blood?
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Egbok
| Friday, January 09, 2004 - 7:26 pm
Also try a thin piece of onion skin...very thin so he can see the "cells". And if you have some water that has been sitting idle, try putting a drop onto a slide and see if there are any little wiggle things in the drop of water.
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Not1worry
| Friday, January 09, 2004 - 8:08 pm
War, I have catalogs that you can order slides from, but I don't know if you want to go to that extent. Stagnant water is a good idea.
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Kaili
| Friday, January 09, 2004 - 10:15 pm
Eyeslashes, swabs from the doorknob (I guess you really need a petri dish for this- I remember doing it in high school), saliva, dirt (probably better in the summer when more stuff is alive in there), let something rot in the fridge and look at the mold, scrape your tongue lightly and look at that, fingernails- I'd just look around the house and find stuff!
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Juju2bigdog
| Friday, January 09, 2004 - 11:33 pm
Fibers off the couch.
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