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July 16, 2007 |
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Adil's Idea of Storytelling
FOUND by Coline Bettson
in Calgary, Alberta
I used this quote in an ESL presentation about children's writing. I've saved it since 1996.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
i agree.
i miss you, jeff buckley :(
I think this might be my favorite yet.
I like storytelling because I get to lie.
Awesome.
I don't think this is a true find!
Don't you people have better things to do with your time than whine about what a 'true' find is?
i agree: its not a true find, it gives me the creeps, and i don't think a second grader wrote it. also, oj's innocent, elvis is alive & well, the holocaust never happened, bigfoot lives in my backyard, ufo's populated new mexico, and hotmom really is hot.
The kid is right . Anything goes in storytelling .
Yeah , what TDub said . THIS gives you the creeps ? How weird of you .Weak .
Absolutely brilliant!
I think that you have a low-creepy index, Lucy. As for the question of whether this is found, or not. It's definitely not printed by a second grader. Looks like a spoken sentence, that someone thought was too appropos to pass by, and wrote down for future reference. Which raises the question: Is something that's heard or overheard a 'find'? Interesting. Dunno. Jury's out on this one. I'm sure other people will have opinions.
Why wouldn't this be a true find? The finder doesn't say what the circumstances are in finding it--all we know is, Coline found it in the late 90's and now uses it in ESL presentations. I'm going to try and work a find into my next presentation.
I've heard some of Adil's stories, and that kid definitely should try and use an erasor...or recall the lessons from "the boy who cried wolf"...
and it's too bad that whoever wrote it down couldn't spell eraser.
sorry, i tried to let it go, but i couldnt.
You sillys! Lucy is being sarcastic!
Teacher probably wrote it down to put on the wall, along with other students' thoughts on why they like storytelling...
Is the author of this find quoting a second grader (Adil)? That would explain the decent penmenship.
The printing looks a lot like a school teacher's writing or someone else who works with small children. It's sad that they can't spell a simple word like eraser... :\
c, I too miss Jeff Buckley :(
Ah, yes....teacher/classroom displays where they write out quotes from the students...and put them up for say - an open house.
I like the quote, although I DO wish the spelling was correct as well.
I mean, it's from a TEACHER! Hellloooooo?!?
BTW- I like storytelling, because YOU get to decide how things turn out.
Stories are what make the world go round; imagination is the soul of a child.
Good find.
i agree, it must have been written down by a teacher for some sort of display. too bad the teacher couldn't spell.
It could have been a teacher's aide (a kid from a higher elementary school grade, maybe; and hopefully not a college student aide) that helped with the writing...Phonetics isn't the best method of spelling...maybe this was discarded after the writer realized erasor was misspelled and that (s)he didn't have an eraser to fix it. You don't want that hanging up on parent-teacher night.
Stupid second grader..
The way I read it, Coline was the teacher who wrote down Adil's quote, and has just kept it since. In which case it's not a find at all.
But not to be a total killjoy, I think Adil has very sensible opinions on storytelling.
Anyway, it reminds me of a Simpsons episode where they have an Albanian exchange student called Adil. Lisa reads from her encyclopaedia that Albania's main export is "furious political thought". lol.
The whole found vs. not found debate is kind of ludicrous. What’s the point of dictating whether something is or is not 'technically' a find? It takes all the spontaneity and joy out of the found concept itself. And, realistically, isn’t anything we see on this website "found" here by anyone looking at it anyway? I'm not trying to throw down the super found paradox of doom or anything, but why do the hall monitors of life insist on inflicting their megalomaniacal control- freak lifestyle onto the parameters of found magazine?
Really, I know this rant is the same old noodle dish with different sauce, but seriously, it’s SO redundant.
pastel ninja... i declare that i have 'found' your comment 'same old noodle dish..." Please, might I have your permission to use this saying? I absolutely love it.
as for the 'hall monitors of life' thing. I'm expanding my definition of 'found'. Whatever anyone thinks they found, is found. It's found to them, and then we find it, here. So: founds abound.
doesn't the misspelling of "eraser" actually drive the sentiment home? it plays on the fact that the writer needed the one thing that he didn't need if he were speaking out loud?
in this case, the second grader would have actually been wise beyond his years.
hmmm.
Where's SALT?
My 5th grade teacher was lousy at spelling. She told us all the time to feel free to correct her if we found misspelled words. However, she was really good at teaching math and I have a degree in that today. As a former member of the Spelling Police, I've found that different people have different strengths for a reason. This lovely second grade teacher probably has a gift with young children - I know I don't.
I like this "find", under any definition :-)
used on an overhead projector for "presentations".
Mona Lisa, I vow to never claim copyright infringement. Enjoy the noodles =)
yummy, thanks ninja.
Well Adil, how do you feel about Tori Spelling?
Turbo: Once again you offer a gem!
It reminds me of the saw from the 1950s:
I'd rather have a bottle in front o' me
than a prefrontal lobotomy.
haha, lucy, you forgot to mention that both the Coline and Adil could actually boys and this note could easily be from a homosexual couple.
Oh, and you're right, a second grader never could have written that. That font totally exists in photoshop so it's just clearly not real. hehe :p
It's a teacher - a teacher who can't spell - writing down what her students said.
Was Jeff Buckley perhaps a linguistics grad student at U.C. Berkeley in the early 1990s?
What I like about story telling is that you CAN'T use an erasor. You can't really take back anything with out sounding like a moron. Kinda like these posts...
MISS NEW BOOTY I FOUND YOU!
I think that the quote meant to display irony.
Cool, I do so enjoy this website
Love the find. It has been my experience in life that if one picks at everything they are never happy. There are always things to pick at if you look hard enough. But seriously is it going to matter next week. Let it go and enjoy things.
so cute.