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Oh, no! I’ve been putting my socks on wrong!

I’ve been failing to press the air out of the tip to make room for my toes, and I haven’t been tying a knot in them after I take them off.

Thank you, Sanford Jones, for that informative demonstration.

And thank you, state of Mississippi, for having such stupid laws that they inspire educational creativity.

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  3. says

    Cuttlefish @1:

    “In days of olde, when knights were bold, and condoms not invented…”

    “…the Red Hot Chili Peppers wore socks over their cocks and everyone lamented…”

    (someone else can take it away from here)

  8. A Hermit says

    “In days of olde, when knights were bold, and condoms not invented…”

    “…the Red Hot Chili Peppers wore socks over their cocks and everyone lamented…”

    “…that the theocrats who run the place are often so demented…”

  10. loreo says

    “In days of olde, when knights were bold, and condoms not invented…”
    “…the Red Hot Chili Peppers wore socks over their cocks and everyone lamented…”
    “…that the theocrats who run the place are often so demented…”
    Forcing the use of irony when knowledge is presented…

  12. Beatrice, an amateur cynic looking for a happy thought says

    “In days of olde, when knights were bold, and condoms not invented…”
    “…the Red Hot Chili Peppers wore socks over their cocks and everyone lamented…”
    “…that the theocrats who run the place are often so demented…”
    Forcing the use of irony when knowledge is presented…
    but at every hint of sarcasm the pious feel offended

  16. Morgan!? the Slithy Tove says

    In days of olde, when knights were bold, and condoms not invented,
    The Peppers* wore socks over their cocks and everyone lamented
    That the theocrats who run the place are often so demented,
    Forcing the use of irony when knowledge is presented.

    *Red Hot Chili Peppers, of course. (Had to fix the scansion. I am a pedant.)

    Teh Horde be a good poet. :o}

  18. says

    Wow, a third of babies are born to teenagers in Mississippi…wow. Seriously jaw dropping. I was just looking at Statscan pages about fertility between 2009-2011, and in 2011 only 3.6% of children were born to those under 20.

    Conversely, 3.6% of all births in Canada in 2011 were to mothers under age 20, most of which were first births. The proportion of births to mothers under age 20 has been at or below 5% since 2000. At the provincial and territorial level, Nunavut had the largest share of all births in 2011 that were to young women under age 20 (20.8%), followed by the Northwest Territories and Saskatchewan (8.1% each) and Manitoba (8.0%) while the share was smallest in Quebec (2.5%), British Columbia (2.6%) and Ontario (3.0%).

    Looking at the rate per 1000 teenagers 15-19 in all of the US is still shocking, with the US being somewhere around 41/1000, whereas it is only 14/1000 here. I knew it was higher, but I did not realize how much higher.

  20. nancymartin says

    This is what I would want in an educator. Someone who can present essential concepts creatively. The best teacher I ever had was my high school latin teacher. I remember 35 plus year later stuff from his class because of his teaching method. He had a feud of sorts with one of the school administrators who was also a football coach so he would demonstrate verb tenses and noun declensions with the words “Duke Hemmer, the village idiot…”. I also remember texts we would read – Julius Ceaser (all gaul is divided into 3 parts, the a,b,c’s), ceaser’s aide, tightass libeneaus, Anyass and Dildo. I still remember details about Jason and the Argonauts (or astronauts in Mr. Corke speak). Medea dismembering her brother to slow down pursuit after Jason steals the golden fleece (Little Absytrus goes to pieces) or the death of Jason when the Argo roles over on him (Jason crushed by hardship)

  21. Al Dente says

    nancymartin @20

    Julius Ceaser

    One of my pet peeves is people misspelling Julius Caesar’s name. The AE is actually a dipthong called aesc or ash and is a letter in certain Scandinavian languages (Æ or æ).

  22. Saad says

    Ichthyic, 13

    How to Avoid [Huge] Ships.

    do make sure to read the reviews of this fascinating and informative tome.

    LOLed at this one:

    As an individual plagued with chronic constipation and bowel distress for most of my adult life, I felt that my prayers had finally been answered by Captain Trimmer’s bold and succinct title. You can imagine my disappointment when I realised that, once again, my dyslexia had let me down.

  24. ck, the Irate Lump says

    Saad wrote:

    LOLed at this one:

    As an individual plagued with chronic constipation and bowel distress for most of my adult life, I felt that my prayers had finally been answered by Captain Trimmer’s bold and succinct title. You can imagine my disappointment when I realised that, once again, my dyslexia had let me down.

    Perhaps this person would be better served by How to Poo on a Date, although some reviewers are upset that the title of this book is a bit unclear.