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January 19, 2009 |
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Grimace
FOUND by Chelsea
in Grove City, Ohio
I found this in the hallway of my high school on my way home a few days ago.
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First first comment!
Grimace is that cartoon character we all love to hate.
Now that I've gotten that out of my system ...
don't you think that if this is a vocabulary card (word, definition, pictorial mnemonic, sentence) that the student should have, at least, spelled "facail" correctly? What is it supposed to be: facile, facial, fecal ....?
And then that sentence is rather awkward, nicht wahr? The phrase "The grimace look ..." is redundantly repetitive.
I wish my kids would stop talking when I give them the "grimace look." They never shut up.
I love Grimace, the big, purple...thing! I have a magnet of him on my refrigerator.
Watch out for those fecal expressions of pain. And don't bite the woodwork while you're straining.
Oh, and ladies...
Stupid home schooled kid who's parents never took him to a McDonald's....
Grimace is a large, purple anthropomorphic being of the "wumpus" species with short arms and legs. He is known for his slow-witted demeanor. His most common expression is the word "duh". Originally, Grimace was the "Evil Grimace", with two pairs of arms with which to steal milkshakes. After that first campaign, the character was revised to be one of the "good guys", and his number of arms was reduced by two. Commercials and merchandise generally portrayed him as a well-meaning simpleton, whose clumsy antics provided a comic foil to Ronald McDonald. The character was retained after the streamlining of the characters in the '80s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonaldland
What I like is when I go out on the web to search a word to see if something like FACAIL is a real (so I can use when I next play scrabble)- and search results return all kinds of results with the same misspelling.
I think Grimace is Patrick Star's cousin (from the wiki description above).
If this is a high school kid writing this, isn't it a little sad? I mean they spelled "disapproval" and "expression" correctly, but not "facial"? And what's a "grimace-look"? Ah well, maybe not. Who am I to judge?
Jonathan! Either I haven't been around as much or you haven't been around as much. Good to see you, regardless!
One of these things are not like the others...
One of these things, doesn't belong....
I forgot the rest of the song.
Sadly, America is a country of growing illiteracy (cant spaell, cant rede, doan wanna rede ---I'l ketch duh muvee enstaid). What we need is a really terrifying, new Grimace character created especially to visit grade schools and scare youngsters into being quiet, respectful, and eager to learn to spell it right in class.
Imagine this: Each school has a hideous Grimace costume hidden away in the janitor's closet. Principal calls a code for the janitor over the intercom, he slips into his closet, & emerges as the Dreaded Grimace to terrorize the particular classroom-in-chaos and give a pop spelling quiz. It really could work!
But you have to start in the early grades. By the time they get to middle school, many students have developed a permanent, sullen grimace of their own that indicates they have no intention of learning anything and the only reason they come to school in the first place is to aggravate the teachers.
Usually a facial does result in a look of disapproval and disdain (not pain).
One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn't belong.
Can you guess which thing is not like the others?
Do it before I finish my song.
Ahhhh, the memories. Kermit, Grover, Cookie and Rufus the dog. Poor Rufus. He didn't get nearly enough airtime.
Thanks for catching the repetition, Librarian. Grammar Nazi is my dayjob; I don't like to do it on Found but a conditioned reaction can lead to a conditioned response.
I hate when people are redundantly repetitive over and over like the same broken record over and over again and again like a broken record...
That face is all "WHAT IS SEEN, CANNOT BE UNSEEN". Maybe he got a whiff of some smelly flaps.....
Librarian in the woodwork, it's not polite to gloat about being first. It made me grimace.
Good drawing. Can't wait to see the Hamburgler.
Mountain Girl, might you be a middle school teacher? You sound like you might have some experience with those grimaces.
That is more or less the face I made reading about FLAPS. Holy SHIT.
And, man, what are they teaching kids these days? Can't anyone spell? Was it this bad when I was in high school and I just never noticed because I was too busy trying not to get my face rearranged?
@ Pepper ... but I'm SO glad that your grimace look did not make you stop writing.
-(and I felt it was mode of a celebration than an actual gloat)-
we get three finds a day?
@ BamaBelle: I had a short stint (6 years) teaching 4th graders. Was at risk for terminal burn-out, so I had to reconsider my career choice. By Grade 4, the grimace is in the bud. It comes into full bloom by junior high.
Chech this out...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AnYtHKqEcc
This looks like way more fun than the vocabulary assignments we had in high school. We just had to write the word and its definition -- boring. They get to write the word, the definition, a sentence, AND a picture.
"Stupid home schooled kid who's parents never took him to a McDonald's...."
Bet the home-schooled kid knows the difference between whose and who's, though.
@ a ... what about: who'se?
Who's? Who'se? Whose? ...I woanot do that again ...I claim diminished capacity from too many Filet O Fishs'...
hi mlm!
Thanks for noticing. No, I lost my internet connection at home (and I've been away and I've been sick). So just catching up now from the office.
Happy New Year all!
Hope you're feeling better, Jonathan, and I'm glad you "found" your way back to us!
thanks!
The black eye is fading now .*-(
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