This was written by a woman who said we should agree with our President

[CatWoman]

no matter WHAT:



http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/search/LOTDETAIL.ASP?sid=&intObjectID=4818981

[sniffa]

1. give her a break, what was she 13?

:rofl:

she wanted to bury her brother. she wanted to bury her brother but the king said no. she wanted to bury her brother so he couLd be in the heaven of ghost.

sorry, it needs another :rofl:

[SoCalDem]

2. Rex needs a dictionary for Christmas

:rofl:

[CatWoman]

3. That "short story" was written by Britney Spears

and is up for auction at Christies.

Current expectation: $700

[sniffa]

5. i know

i can't beLieve he wrote the persian expedition

[aquart]

4. Girl had a temper and no ideals.

Needed to get out and exercise, too.

[Recursion]

6. *shrug*... honestly, for a 13-year-old, that's a pretty good summary...

...of the key facts of Antigone. I'm not expecting a 13-year-old to get at the more "deep" or "profound" parts of Antigone, but she did seem to not only get the facts but catch on to the motivations of the principle characters. Not bad.

(Full disclosure: I've always thought Britney was tacky but she never struck me as dumb or insensitive, and this kind of backs that up to me.)

[CatWoman]

7. you've certainly made me reconsider

I used to think that people who spelled "their" as there, and "rumor" as "roomer" and "know" as "no" were complete idiots.

consider me enlightened.

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/

[SoCalDem]

9. Are 13-yr olds even taught Antigone these days?

I wonder :shrug:

[CatWoman]

10. I must admit that I have no idea what 13 year olds are taught

however, I hope spelling and grammar are still part of the curriculum.

[SoCalDem]

11. Britney is not the sharpest knife in the drawer

I had harder spelling words in 4th grade :)

[Der Blaue Engel]

8. What really scares me about this

is the huge number of misspellings and bad grammar that were not marked up. (I'm assuming the marks were done by the teacher.)

"Is our children learning?"

:scared:

[BuyingThyme]

12. That's what I was thinking.

[Recursion]

13. I'm still not convinced * said that

I can't believe I'm sticking up for both Britney and * in a single thread... I hope somebody burns the log of this...

I've listened to that clip many times, and I can't help but conclude that what * said was:

"The question we should be asking ourselves is: 'are children learning?'"

[Der Blaue Engel]

14. Meh. He's said so many incoherent, asinine things

it hardly matters whether it was his poor delivery and/or sentence construction or actual idiocy and abuse of the English language. No matter how you slice it, he's an aural/visual horror show.

:scared:

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

15. Jesus Christ, What's With All The Petty Shit Lately?

Have we really devolved to such nonsense?

[Kelly Rupert]

16. I don't have it in me to make fun of anyone's papers from when they were 13

[Hippo_Tron]

17. How could this be worth $500-$700?