Charles Johnson made an LGF drinking game the other day; I think I could make a pretty good one out of the comments section here.
1. Any time someone calls me a rude name, drink.
2. Any time someone calls me unfit to teach, drink.
3. Any time someone gives me a stats lesson, drink.
4. Any time someone mistakenly calls me "he", drink.
5. Any time someone tells me to go back to school, drink.
6. Any time someone writes nearly the exact same thing someone else said previously, drink.
We'll all be trashed before the end of the post.
Posted by Sarah at June 14, 2004 09:08 AMWell, we won't be trashed by the end of THIS post. If you want to have a really rocking party, call five or six of your friends and work through the comments on June 11. Thanks, asshats, I can get a whole party drunk on idiotic posts that day!
Posted by: Oda Mae at June 14, 2004 10:38 AMSomeone actually gave you a stats lesson. I must have missed that. Besides, Stats and Polls are not the same thing. Polls use some stats, but primarily only calculate averages.
Posted by: Mike at June 14, 2004 12:45 PMIf you're promoting excess drinking, then you're unfit to teach. And hey, go back to school, Stats and Polls are not the same thing. Polls use some stats, but primarily only calculate averages
Posted by: KS ~ at June 14, 2004 02:36 PMJebus.
Do they really let Sarah teach actual live children?
Posted by: Pastormaker at June 14, 2004 03:37 PMYou aren't drunk enough yet, ahem:
The guy who runs this blog is a dodo brain who doesn't understand that you can use stats to prove *anything*! sheesh, 95% of registered Republicans know that.
That oughta cover it.
Posted by: KS ~ at June 14, 2004 04:21 PMWait -- you're *serious* about being a teacher? Oy.
Posted by: Buck at June 14, 2004 04:29 PMFrankly, if you'd just admit you're slightly clueless about the validity of polls and the statistics behind them, the vultures would wander off. But you seem to live in this imaginary world where everything you posted was both *correct* and *justified*.
Frankly, it's just not so. You were wrong, and you should be adult enough to admit it. Let's all move on.
Posted by: wemic at June 14, 2004 04:57 PMLooks like the really stupid ones are still trolling. Hey, idiots, in case you haven't read the rest of Sarah's blog, her students are college age, and she's not encouraging them to drink (or read her blog, for that matter)she is attempting to provide some much needed levity to counteract the very mean spirited and humorless earlier commentators.
And Wemic, frankly I don't give a damn how many times you use frankly, but frankly you might wish to use a thesaurus and expand your vocabulary just a tab. Frankly, you appear to be slightly clueless yourself, and, frankly, I can find no reason in your post to put your own reasoning in front of Sarah's.
Did I say frankly?
Posted by: Oda Mae at June 14, 2004 05:47 PMOda Mae; the inability to recognize when somebody is joking is a classic sign of the tunnel-vision ideologue. I think you need to re-read my posts and try to appreciate the sublime humour in them. You'll have to figure out for yourself whether I'm with you or against you, or just trying to provide some much-needed humour to counteract the mean spirited partisan fight that is humourless on both sides
One thing's for certain, though: I spell "humour" with an extra 'u', so I must be a foreigner of some kind. But am I a Bush-friendly Brit, or a socialist Canadian? Who knows? Perhaps we foreigners should be prevented from befouling US blogs with our superfluous U's and our godless "humour."
Ha! recognize with a 'z' and humour with a superfluous 'u'?! You, sir (based on internet demographics), are a disgrace to your undisclosed country!
Posted by: Sander at June 15, 2004 02:32 AMSorry, sister, but anybody who thinks LGF or Kim du Twat are "inspiring" gets what they deserve. Good luck and good health.
Posted by: Lo Ping Wong at June 15, 2004 03:19 AMLOL! Sarah, this is great! But I don’t think we would be coherent enough to make it past #3!
Posted by: Amy at June 15, 2004 03:50 AMGo Nader
Posted by: Mary at June 15, 2004 05:55 AM