DUNCES RULE QUIZ SHOWS PROVE IDIOCY IS AMERICAN AS CHERRY PIE.Byline: Kimit Muston I think it is time we stopped pretending that in today's America a public education is worth the paper it's printed on. After being pulled to pieces between liberal social experiments and conservative budget slashes, there is very little education still going on. Oh, sure, you can learn to spell or how to request a cup of coffee in French and how to recognize mathematics when you see it, but of what use are those skills in today's fast paced, hurly-burly, electronic gizmoed world? I mean, how many seniors from the class of 2000 even know the difference between a hurly and a burly? I think it's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a to rebuild the public schools from the ground up, to demand that they prepare our children for the real world, with real skills they can really use. Really. It is time to design the education system to prepare children to be game show contestants. What was the title track on Mariah Carey's last album? You don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. ? You wouldn't even get past the $100 question on ``Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.'' You're probably wasting time still trying to figure out why that show's name doesn't have a question mark at the end, you punctuation freak. You, with your college and your SAT scores are unqualified to exist in 21st century America. History? Nobody ever made money knowing history. Put the following historical events in correct order, east to west: A) Michael Jackson's first European Tour. B) Barbra Streisand's first husband. C) The original title of ``Scream.'' D) The title track on Mariah Carey's last album. < You show me a textbook that contains that information, and I'll show you a million-dollar history course! Chemistry? Degrees in chemistry have been worthless since 1989 when drug use became ``bad.'' Name the last time you saw a chemical compound on ``Wheel Of Fortune!'' ``I'm looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. an umlaut umlaut (  m`lout) [Ger.,=transformed sound], in inflection, variation of vowels of the type of English man to men. , Vanna!''
``Roy, there's four of them. Let's turn them around and see what we've got. Hydrocarbonized-thermo-blank-blank-blank. Do you want to take a guess, Roy?'' There's an episode of ``Wheel'' you'll never see. I'm sure you and the other geriatrics geriatrics (jĕrēă`trĭks), the branch of medicine concerned with conditions and diseases of the aged. Many disabilities in old age are caused by or related to the deterioration of the circulatory system (see arteriosclerosis), e.g. who watch ``Jeopardy'' are going to whine about the dumbing down of America. Well, I've got news for you. Americans were always dumb. Guess who lost the Alamo Alamo Eighteenth-century mission in San Antonio, Texas, site of a historic siege of a small group of Texans by a Mexican army (1836) during the Texas war for independence from Mexico. - Americans. And who lost my car keys every time I put them down? An American. And who do you think lost the battle of Waterloo? No, really, I have no idea. Who did? I say it's time we admit our dumbness and celebrate our dumbness and enjoy our dumbness. Americans can't figure out how to refold Re`fold´ v. t. 1. To fold again. a road map. Hooray for us! We can't find England on a map of England. Who wants to! And we keep believing what we see on political commercials. So what? Let's see Let's See was a Canadian television series broadcast on CBC Television between September 6, 1952 to July 4, 1953. The segment, which had a running time of 15 minutes, was a puppet show with a character named Uncle Chichimus (voice of John Conway), which presented each some smarty An earlier device marketed by Fischer International Systems Corporation, Naples, FL (www.fisc.com) that used a standard 3.5" floppy drive to read smart cards. The smart card was inserted into Smarty, which resembled a floppy disk. pants from France win on ``Twenty-One,'' without speaking English. America chose its intellectual role models a long time ago. Just ask yourself: What group of people has this nation admired above all others for the last 50 years? What group of people have had their photographs in almost every American home For the American mortgage lender, see . The American Home is a center of intercultural exchange located in Vladimir, Russia. The home is designed to model a typical American suburban home and its main focus is the ESL school that provides lessons for Russian students. since 1959? Whose lives and opinions were memorized by every adolescent male from Maine to San Diego? Playboy bunnies, that's who! For the last 50 years, the youth of this nation have aspired to be no smarter than someone who considers ``global warming and rude behavior'' equal turn-offs. You can't do that and be smart. Not at the same time, you can't. So, lighten up teachers of America. We're a nation of idiots and we want our game shows the same way. So take your diplomas and excess neurons and take a hike. Mariah Carey doesn't need you to sell albums. |
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