Christie's auctioning Britney Spears junior high term paper on Antigone

[Crankie Avalon]

Britney's literary legacy up for auction: At an upcoming auction of celebrity memorabilia, Christie's will try to sell off a charming junior-high paper by Britney Spears on Sophocles' "Antigone." (The auction house's Web site gives the item an estimated value of $500-$700). She gets good comments on her organization but points taken away for poor penmanship and spelling mistakes like "Their was a roomer about her burying her bother ..." Overall grade: 88. (ONTD, Christie's)

http://www.salon.com/ent/col/fix/2006/11/28/tue/

[Richardo]

1. An 88 for a paper that says 'hisself'?

That teacher did her no favors. (Did not correct "get's" either)

[Fenris]

2. Roomer has it he kept his job.

[Courtesy Flush]

17. And the teacher didn't catch "looses"

That's a Louisiana teacher alright!

[last_texas_dem]

11. Also "suppose to"

"The king's son is suppose to" didn't get a correction. The teacher must have been pretty tired when s/he got to that one, or just felt sorry for Britney and decided to not make her feel too bad.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

12. The teacher couldn't spell, either.

I wonder if teachers' language ability is commensurate with their salary.

[flamingyouth]

3. Spells like a looser, I see.

[underpants]

4. on the plus side-I no longer need to set aside time to read "Antigone"

Thanks Britney now can you flash your beaver one more time?

[Richardo]

8. .

:spray:

[rockymountaindem]

13. Have you learned nothing?

Stop demeaning Antigone! Or something...

[LynneSin]

5. DAMNIT, I was just going to read that book and now you spoiled it for me

:eyes:

[Ian David]

6. When she read the paper aloud in class, did she pronunce it "Anti-Gone"? n/t

[LaraMN]

7. When does the word "gets" require an apostrophe? When you're Britney Spears.

This is a grammar nazi's worst nightmare.
:rofl:

[Squatch]

9. She was in JHS in the mid 1990's...couldn't she have typed this paper?

I mean personal computers had only been around for a coupla years. I'm sure she could have gotten her hands on a PowerMac or something instead of subjecting her teacher to that awful bubble-shaped script.

[trackfan]

14. Education should not require the capital to own a machine.

Unless everyone is given a machine by the state there should be no advantage to one student owning a machine when all cannot afford a machine. That's Fascism.

[Strawman]

10. I expected the opening sentence to be something like...

"Anti-gone was this girl who didn't wanna go anywhere."

[deadparrot]

15. I think I wrote better than that in kindergarten.

:wow:

[SoyCat]

16. I remember reading that she attended a really small Christian

(seg.) academy during part of her school years. That paper might be from that time period. Schools like that aren't known for their high standards.

[SKKY]

18. Rumor=Roomer???? hahahahahahaha

:rofl: You've got to be kidding me...