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You have to admit, though, it'd be pretty funny if they named a pair of celestial objects "Sodom" and "Gomorrah"...
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quote: wouldn't the "preferred mnemetic" be the one that works for you?
It should have been. Highlighting yet another failure of the educational system in Texas, we had to learn the phrase they wanted us to learn, not make one up ourselves.
I believe they thought children were incapable of making phrases up themselves.
That's not all. We as second-graders had to learn a mnemetic phrase for all the State stuff of Texas, like state bird, state gem, state flower, and so on. If there is any information on planet earth that is more worthless than that, I have yet to find it.
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EdipisReks
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ohio's official state rock song is Hang on Sloopy. why does everything in this damn country have to be so banal?
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quote:Originally posted by EdipisReks: ohio's official state rock song is Hang on Sloopy.
That's very funny .
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quote: In any case, I hope that's what they go for - that, or Bob
I aways liked Bob. In my brief foray into computer games, I played one where you tried to take over the universe, and had to pick a name for yourself, as emporor. Mine was always Bob. I wasted a lot of time on that game, and never became emporor, alas.
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