Category: Herb Caen
Slow Don’t Necessarily Mean Stupid. (Also: Jhonny Lives!)
(Re: The title. As I tell the kids when I speak ungrammatically or in my peculiar classroom pidgin, it’s sort of like how police officers get to run red lights and speed and stuff. I get to make up words and talk however I want because I’m the grammar cop around here. Some of them […]
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More grumbling… How about this classic? You give in to much pleading and allow something to be turned in very late. After-everyone-else’s-has-been-graded-(none-too-quickly)-and-returned kind of late. And then…THE NEXT DAY, you start getting pestered, “Have you graded that yet?” I’ll get right on it. Grumble… Or this one: You get handed a pile of stapled work. […]
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Back in the day, the San Francisco Chronicle had a columnist named Herb Caen. With the exception of eight years or so in the 50’s when he jumped ship for the Examiner, he wrote a daily column for the Chronicle from the 30’s until he died in 1997. He’s the one that invented the word […]
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