ketchup 4: wherein the author mentions swing, candy, voodoo, really big folks, & a bet

Squirrel Nut Zippers, Perennial Favorites

Honestly, when I heard of these folks many, many years ago, I thought they had a cool, creative, kinda dumb name.

Then, Thursday Rubel told me about the candy, w/ a funny story involving his family.

But I cannot STAND when teachers talk about their families, so I won't go into detail here.

Anyway, have you had any of these?


Kinda like Bit o' Honeys, from what my lovely-&-amazing wife says.

I must have had them at some time & forgotten.

Oh well, the band is quite cool, in a Cherry Poppin' Daddies & Big Bad Voodoo Daddy way.

(I prefer the last, both musically & moniker-style.)

BONUS TANGENT: (sorry, no points)

Speaking of "voodoo," the family's favorite Arena Football team returns next year, & it had many cool things:

1. purple & black unis, including purple helmets
2. the city of New Orleans
3. mayhaps the coolest sports logo ever:


GO VOODOO!!!!

(please note, my 2nd-favorite is the Philadelphia Soul, Aodhan & Linda love the San Jose SabreCats, & Finbar & Cedric preferred the now-defunct Los Angeles Avengers, for whom we had season tickets.)

(Note 2: yes, I am nerdy enough to own both Arena Football video games, & if you want to see some "interesting" uniforms, look up the also-defunct New Orleans Night; 1 word: Zubaz.)

Juniors:

Brobdingnag (or, "Brobdingrag," I guess) quiz, & if you read, you knew all about Glumdalclitch & the dwarf.

On this, the 15th time I have read this book, I am digging it as much as the 1st time.

I know it's tough to get into it, but it's all worth it, & I hope you keep up.

I say "Glum" is the most sympathetic character thus far (& mayhaps throughout the entire novel).

& the dwarf & monkey simply crack me up.

A semi-positive Swift quote also led to some cool ideas:

"May you live every day of your life."

Seriously, keep that one in mind.


Sophomores:

Note the vocab word in the album title?

Yeah, we actually use these words sometimes . . .

"The Bet" speed-quiz.

Every once in a while I have a pretty good teacherly idea. We read about 1/2 the story Wednesday, & we annotated that part, & you should have finished Wednesday night. The open-note speed-quiz checked your reading, & if you had done the work, you did quite well.

The rest of the "quiz" involved your thought about the issues presented within.

& now, think: who actually did win? How do we define "winning," here?

Think about those, &

be cool