By HepNat on Thursday, April 27, 2000 - 11:28 am: EditYour wish is my command
| By HepNat on Thursday, April 27, 2000 - 11:28 am: Edit |
Your wish is my command |
| By John P. Cooper on Thursday, April 27, 2000 - 11:37 am: Edit |
Noooooooooooooo.......I wanted "mere" banter. O-well...in the words of the great Peter Loggins, "O-well" Sorry....don't have time to post more now |
| By Andy on Thursday, April 27, 2000 - 12:25 pm: Edit |
/sarcasm on/ we're sorry you don't have more time to post, too! /sarcasm off/ /gratuitous emoticon on/ ~8^) /gratuitous emoticon off/ |
| By Natalie Roy on Thursday, April 27, 2000 - 12:43 pm: Edit |
I want, I want, I want.....you're just sooooo demanding. Shawn, is there anyway you can hack in and change the name of the thread to gratify Mr Picky here? |
| By julius on Thursday, April 27, 2000 - 01:11 pm: Edit |
General Banter and its subordinate, Major Bummer, reporting for duty. |
| By Natalie Roy on Thursday, April 27, 2000 - 02:40 pm: Edit |
Love ya Shawn :-) |
| By Anonymous on Thursday, May 04, 2000 - 12:51 pm: Edit |
Hey! banter banter banter! |
| By Swingbaby on Monday, May 08, 2000 - 04:24 pm: Edit |
Oh coolness! A thread just for me :-) How I've missed you all! I am happy to announce that they are letting me out of the institution in approximately 13 days and as you can see I am now allowed CBPR. Looking forward to seeing all my comrades in the near future! :~þ |
| By Jane Hance on Sunday, May 28, 2000 - 05:07 pm: Edit |
Could you pass this test? In 1885 the 8th grade was considered upper level > > education. Many children quit school as soon as > > they could master the basic fundamentals of the 3 > > R's (reading, writing and arithmetic). Most never > > went past the 3rd or 4th grade. That's all you > > needed for the farm and most city jobs. > > Child labor laws were not in existence yet. > > > > Additionally today's education has much more > > focus on technology and sociology than the > > grammar and geography of old. It's a different > > world with different requirements and capabilities > > needed to succeed. > > > > Could You Have Passed the 8th Grade in 1895? : > > This is the eighth-grade final exam from 1895 > > from Salina, KS. It was taken from the original > > document on file at the Smoky Valley Genealogical > > Society and Library in Salina, KS and reprinted > > by the Salina Journal. > > ================================= > > 8th Grade Final Exam: Salina, KS - 1895 > > > > Grammar (Time, one hour) > > > > 1. Give nine rules for the use of Capital Letters. > > 2. Name the Parts of Speech and define those that > > have no modifications. > > 3. Define Verse, Stanza and Paragraph. > > 4. What are the Principal Parts of a verb? Give > > Principal Parts of do, lie, lay and run. > > 5. Define Case, Illustrate each Case. > > 6. What is Punctuation? Give rules for principal > > marks of Punctuation. > > 7 - 10. Write a composition of about 150 words > > and show therein that you understand the > > practical use of the rules of grammar. > > > > Arithmetic (Time, 1.25 hours) > > > > 1. Name and define the Fundamental Rules of > > Arithmetic. > > 2. A wagon box is 2 ft. deep, 10 feet long, and 3 > > ft. wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold? > > 3. If a load of wheat weighs 3942 lbs., what is > > it worth at 50 cts. per bu., deducting 1050 lbs. > > for tare? > > 4. District No. 33 has a valuation of $35,000. > > What is the necessary levy to carry on a > > school seven months at $50 per month, and > > have $104 for incidentals? > > 5. Find cost of 6720 lbs. coal at $6.00 per ton. > > 6. Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and > > 18 days at 7 percent. > > 7. What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide > > and 16 ft. long at $20 per m? > > 8. Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days (no > > grace) at 10 percent. > > 9. What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per > > acre, the distance around which is 640 rods? > > 10. Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a > > Receipt. > > > > U.S. History (Time, 45 minutes) > > > > 1. Give the epochs into which U.S. History is > > divided. > > 2. Give an account of the discovery of America by > > Columbus. > > 3. Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War. > > 4. Show the territorial growth of the United States. > > 5. Tell what you can of the history of Kansas. > > 6. Describe three of the most prominent battles > > of the Rebellion. > > 7. Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, > > Fulton, Bell, Lincoln, Penn, and Howe? > > 8. Name events connected with the following dates: > > 1607, 1620, 1800, 1849, and 1865? > > > > Orthography (Time, one hour) > > 1. What is meant by the following: Alphabet, > > phonetic orthography, etymology, syllabication? > > 2. What are elementary sounds? How classified? > > 3. What are the following, and give examples of > > each: Trigraph, subvocals, diphthong, cognate > > letters, linguals? > > 4. Give four substitutes for caret 'u'. > > 5. Give two rules for spelling words with final > > 'e'. Name two exceptions under each rule. > > 6. Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. > > Illustrate each. > > 7. Define the following prefixes and use in > > connection with a word: Bi, dis, mis, pre, > > semi, post, non, inter, mono, super. > > 8. Mark diacritically and divide into syllables > > the following, and name the sign that indicates > > the sound: Card, ball, mercy, sir, odd, cell, > > rise, blood, fare, last. > > 9. Use the following correctly in sentences, > > Cite, site, sight, fane, fain, feign, vane, vain, > > vein, raze, raise, rays. > > 10. Write 10 words frequently mispronounced > > and indicate pronunciation by use of diacritical > > marks and by syllabication. > > > > Geography (Time, one hour) > > > > 1. What is climate? Upon what does climate > > depend? > > 2. How do you account for the extremes of climate > > in Kansas? > > 3. Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the > > ocean? > > 4. Describe the mountains of N.A. > > 5. Name and describe the following: Monrovia, > > Odessa, Denver, Manitoba, Hecla, Yukon, > > St. Helena, Juan Fermandez, Aspinwall and Orinoco. > > 6. Name and locate the principal trade centers of the U.S. > > 7. Name all the republics of Europe and give capital of > > each. > > 8. Why is the Atlantic Coast colder than the Pacific in > > the same latitude? > > 9. Describe the process by which the water of the > > ocean returns to the sources of rivers. > > 10. Describe the movements of the earth. Give > > inclination of the earth. > > |
| By Amy Lawrence on Sunday, May 28, 2000 - 07:01 pm: Edit |
Thanks, Jane! I'm going to print this out and administer this to my students on Tuesday! By the way, what are the dimensions for a bushel of wheat, anyway? |
| By HopMichael on Sunday, May 28, 2000 - 07:06 pm: Edit |
Amy, that could be humiliating... PS So disappointed I couldn't join the baseball crowd yesterday. I could see the lights of the stadium from where I was working =( Hope Lindy at the Q was a blast! |
| By HopMichael on Sunday, May 28, 2000 - 07:07 pm: Edit |
Political Rib: I wonder if W could pass the geography test... =) |
| By Jane Hance on Monday, May 29, 2000 - 10:25 am: Edit |
Awh shucks, Amy, it's been sooo dang long since I left them thar wheat fields of Illinois that I don't remember that thar number. Let me dig out my grandpappy's farmers almanac ..... Good luck with the test! |
| By Swingbaby on Wednesday, May 31, 2000 - 10:50 pm: Edit |
I've gotten a hundred different serious (supposedly) virus warnings clogging my email so I almost missed this one. Liked it so much I thought I'd torture the rest of you. (Hey, isn't that what banter's all about? ;) ================================================== Virus alert: Watch out for Badtimes If you receive an email including an attachment entitled "Badtimes," delete it immediately. Do not open it. Apparently this one is pretty nasty. It will not only erase everything on your hard drive, but it will also delete anything on disks within 20 feet of your computer. It demagnetizes the stripes on ALL of your credit cards. It reprograms your ATM access code, screws up the tracking on your VCR and uses subspace field harmonics to scratch any CD's you attempt to play. It will re-calibrate your refrigerator's coolness settings so all your ice cream melts and your milk curdles. It will program your phone autodial to call only your mother-in-law's number. This virus will mix antifreeze into your fish tank. It will drink all your beer. It will leave dirty socks on the coffee table when you are expecting company. Its radioactive emissions will cause your toe jam and bellybutton fuzz (be honest, you have some) to migrate behind your ears. It will replace your shampoo with Nair and your Nair with Rogaine, all while dating your current boy/girlfriend behind your back and billing their hotel rendezvous to your Visa card. It will cause you to run with scissors and throw things in a way that is only fun until someone loses an eye. It will give you Dutch Elm Disease and Tinea. It will rewrite your backup files, changing all your active verbs to passive tense and incorporating undetectable misspellings which grossly change the interpretations of key sentences. If the "Badtimes" message is opened in a Windows95 or 98 environment, it will leave the toilet seat up and leave your hair dryer plugged in dangerously close to a full bathtub. It will not only remove the forbidden tags from your mattresses and pillows, but it will also refill your skim milk with whole milk. It will replace all your luncheon meat with Spam. It will molecularly rearrange your cologne or perfume, causing it to smell like dill pickles. It is insidious and subtle. It is dangerous and terrifying to behold. It is also a rather interesting shade of mauve. These are just a few signs of infection. BEWARE OF BADTIMES ================================================== :-þ |
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