[lit-ideas] Re: Polar bears vital step closer to winning US Presidency
- From: "Walter C. Okshevsky" <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 16:42:12 -0230
Traveller: "Excuse me sir, could you tell me the way to Dublin?"
Irishman: "Well, I wouldn't start from here, m'laddie."
In Georgia, the story's a tad different:
Lost driver to farmer met on a dirt road somewhere in the boondoks: "Excuse me
sir, could you tell me how I could get back to the I-95?"
Farmer (chewing thoughtfully on his pipe): "Well, you cyan't gyet dare from
heere."
Stories told by Walter in the course of teaching Education students something of
the nature of validly drawn conclusions in argument.
Walter: "So you see, you can't get to the conclusion given the evidence provided
in the premises. The inference is invalid."
Brittany: But Megan did! She just said so.
Walter: Well, yes, but Megan is different ...
Procrastinating in the face of a pile of students' drafts on a 75 degree
afternoon in the east end of St. John's, NewfoundLAND. Summer teaching - god
love it. Still no polar bears. But rumours of icebergs galore!
Cheers, Walter
Quoting Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>
> --- On Fri, 8/7/11, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> "Did your mother come from Ireland?
> 'Cos there's something in you Irish"
>
> >Cohen was born in Leeds.
>
> The song and fact reminds me of the blue, misty hills of Tyree:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjukQapSD0k&feature=related
>
> D
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