My sister works in one of the school districts in or around Baltimore — I forget which one — but I’m pretty sure this didn’t happen at her school, thankfully:
I wonder if HBO’s The Wire will deal with that next season.
Day: November 4, 2005
The Friday Random Guess 10:
But I guess we’ll both just have to be patient ’cause it’s a long way to go
[“Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)” by John Lennon & Yoko Ono, guessed by Eric]Last night I said to her I didn’t want to live inside a lie
“She’ll Come Back to Me” by CakeI go down into the water and dive as deep as man can go
“Exploring The Blue” by Luka BloomYou said, “It’s snowing, it’s snowing! God, I hate this weather.”
[“New York City” by They Might Be Giants, guessed by Jeremy]I was naked in the clothes you made
[“Trip Through Your Wires” by U2, guessed by Eric]Love me forever and let forever begin tonight
“Amado Mio” by Pink MartiniYou’ve always got those dark sunglasses covering half your face
“Loom” by Ani DiFrancoSomething in your eyes, makes me want to lose myself
“Feels Like Home” by Bonnie RaittHere I am, and in this city, with a fistful of dollars, and baby, you’d better believe
[“New York Groove” by Ace Frehley/KISS, guessed by Eric]As logic stands you couldn’t meet a man who’s from the future
“All We Have is Now” by The Flaming Lips
Guess the lyric, win…a well-guessed lyric!
You know, I’ve seen my fair share of bad headlines — “Just Desserts” after the death of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, “Hamlets warned of Ophelia” in the wake of more recent Florida hurricanes — and while this one isn’t on that same level, it’s still pretty lame: Grimm the lights?
And just in case you didn’t have enough on your shelf, the Spam Reading Club returns again with selections from Tarzan of the Apes and The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs, as well as Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. Sort of like Tarazan of the Heights, which Burroughs really should have written. There’s a whole world of great literary mashups waiting to happen.
From the limited amount of spam I receive — and the limited amount of that which I actually read — the new thing seems to be combining the random-words strategy with the public-domain-literature thing. So you wind up with passages from the above books with random words that clearly don’t belong there.
It occurs to me, of course, that I’m probably putting way too much time and thought into this and should probably just go back to deleting these messages sight-unseen.