Re: [TML] For comment, please... Phil Pugliese 10 Jan 2017 21:08 UTC
Reminds me of an English teacher I had as a jr in High School. We (the class & her) would go round&round discussing some book or a contemporary issue until we finally figured out what she wanted to hear. Sometimes the class resembled the Twilight Zone. Like the time that we were discussing 'To Kill a Mockingbird' . We had all seen the movie w/ GPeck before we read the book but still, when I brought up the 'Rabid Dog' episode where the sheriff asks Atticus to take the kill shot, not only did no one in the 25+ student class recall the episode but the teacher didn't either! They all looked at me as if they thought I was 'on' something! Shook me up enough that, right afterwards, I actually went to the library to confirm that I wasn't imagining things. Talk about 'weird'! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ On Tue, 1/10/17, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote: Subject: Re: [TML] For comment, please... To: "tml" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> Date: Tuesday, January 10, 2017, 3:48 AM On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 6:19 PM, Jonathan Clark <xxxxxx@att.net> wrote: Shakespearean analysis is not usually a topic I stray into . . . DIscussions like this always remind of a bit from the Rodney Dangerfield movie "Back To School" . . . Dangerfield plays a self-made billionaire named Thorton Melon who never finished high school. Worried about how his son will do at college, Melon "arranges" (through the generous application of his boundless wealth) to attend the same college as a freshman. But - of course - Melon isn't actually interested in doing any schoolwork. So when his English lit teacher assigns an essay on the meaning behind "Slaughterhouse Five," Melon hires Kurt Vonnegut to write the essay. [The author actually has a walk-in part in which he's seen knocking on the dorm condo* door.] To his vast surprise, when Melon gets the assignment back, he's gotten a very low grade (a "D" IIRC). When Melon complains to the professor, he's told, "You totally misunderstood the work." The silent look of bafflement Melon gives in response to this is classic Dangerfield. *I call it the "dorm condo" because - in another display of wealth - Melon has persuaded the college to allow him to knock down the walls between three separate dorm residences and combine them into a single palatial bachelor pad. -- Richard Aiken "Never insult anyone by accident." Robert A. Heinlein"I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as Muhammed." Alexis de Tocqueville (1843)"We know a little about a lot of things; just enough to make us dangerous." Dean Winchester "It has been my experience that a gun doesn't care who pulls its trigger." Newton Knight (as portrayed by Matthew McConaughey), to a scoffing Confederate tax collector facing the weapons held by Knight's young children and wife. ----- The Traveller Mailing List Archives at http://archives.simplelists.com/tml Report problems to xxxxxx@simplelists.com To unsubscribe from this list please go to http://www.simplelists.com/confirm.php?u=EwREIRgLK8vaUEhNlnoNdSGKwnjoID8a