Hi Helen Caps off to you for going back to school to improve upon yourself, no easy fete to get back into the study, learning mode after years of being away from it. I went back to learn equivalent Licensed Practical Nursing certificate which was 9 months theory studies in the class room and practical in Home care or Residential Facility - I did both for my practical Home-care to have some pocket money and the other volunteer. I found it quite difficult to get back into the study mode because the wording in their text books and even the tutors giving the lessons (they were both nurses) was hard to comprehend, the tutors spent more time with definitions for us to understand. - Now since I have had my eyes opened, I completely understand about deliberate Dumbing down and why so many students quit..These encrypted, in-comprehensive words, sentences and general gobbledy goop is deliberate to frustrate and have you believing you are too dumb to keep going! I felt this many times as I could not get the object of the lesson or when I thought I did and wrote my definition it was not right as I had defined another.. e.g. The hardest subject of all - I had to define each word under the heading of Culture:... What was Value, Moral, Ethics and belief. I did eventually pass but it was a hard 9 months and extremely stressful as I was also living in a Woman's Hostel Home that sometimes the women and some children came from broken homes and they were under huge stress which for the first week or so of them arriving or perhaps in more cases after the first week or so they became unhinged and started up stuff to undermine the smooth running of the household, until everyone settled back into a pattern again. Amanda
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Hi Evelyn and Amanda and all
Tim Conway is one hilarious guy most of the time. What amused me is that he knew what he was doing would get Harvey Korman going and he did it on purpose.
Speaking of bursting out laughing at the most inopportune time, I've had moments like that.
One that comes to mind is when I was a college student. I had returned to school in my 30's so most in the class were about 10 years younger than me. To determine where we belonged as far as our English skills were concerned we had to write an short essay in class unprepared.
Later in one of my Math classes we had a professor who every once in a while would wander off on some other topic. He was an East Indian fellow with excellent English skills. One day he asked why people in this country always said, "you know" at the end of a sentence. He looked so disgusted which tickled me to no end. I wasn't laughing but I was very amused.
Then he said, "Students even write "you know" at the end of their sentences in initial essays." and still serious and a look of disgust, he says, "and we even had one of them write it (he turned and wrote it on the blackboard) like this >> "you no". Well that did it. I burst out laughing and I couldn't stop. I tried to stop laughing while he went back to teaching Math and all of a sudden I just would burst out laughing again and I could not stop. Some of the class began laughing a bit, too. I decided I had better leave the classroom.
By the way, it wasn't me who wrote "you know" at the end of sentences. My essay received a high grade. Later when I wanted to take a class in expository writing, they wouldn't let me because they needed the space for people whose writing skills left something to be desired.
Helen
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Amanda spontaneity really does keep us young in mind and spirit. I think a lot of things done on the spur of the moment are most times the best. :) Quote:
James definitely laughs when I laugh yet I am not so affected to this, but once I am in full gales of laughter it is a different matter. No I can't say I have laughed in church or at a funeral but James and I have laughed ourselves hysterically in restaurants, shops etc - I do not feel embarrassed when people look at us strangely or even care - for most of my life I had to tow the line. I am free and laughter is the best medicine and spontaneity of fun keeps us young.
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Isn't it strange Amanda, how just by watching someone laugh, we either laugh with them or get a big wide grin on our face? And have you ever gotten your giggle box turned up side down when you were some place you shouldn't be laughing, like at church or even a funeral home. I've often wondered why some things are so funny when we're some place we should not laugh. LOL Quote:
I could identify with Tim Conway having a difficult time composing himself. There has been times when I have tried to tell James a story or joke and as I try to tell him I start laughing, then the harder I try to stop I laugh even harder then James gets into the act and either starts laughing because I am or looks at me funny which sets me off into peals of more laughter - my stomach hurts and it is 10 minutes or more before I can get myself back under control to finish the story..LOL Amanda Quote:
Hi Myrna, wasn't the Carol Burnette show a wonderful show? And it was people like Tim Conway and Harvey Korman that helped make it such a great and funny show. So many hilarious scenes and yet never vulgar or x rated language and even the kids could watch. When the networks lowered their standards to permit anything goes, we all lost big time. Quote:
Hi Evelyn and friends,
I thought I would let you with a laugh or too.
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