Mar 15, 2005

Miscellany

The Day My Butt Went Psycho: Why boys don't read. Via Rich Lowry.

"Incredibly Strange Graduation of the Iranian Female Police Cadets": Self explanatory.

$9,600 for your third born: Solution to the birth dearth.

Wedgie gains respectability: Teenager's "locker-room nightmare" included in latest edition of Webster's New World College Dictionary.

Passive aggressive New Yorkers: Coping with life's little annoyances.

5 comments:

Kitty said...

Surfed over here from Brainster.

Love the bit about boys & reading. I told my sone I'd buy him anything decent to read. I should have boned up on Stephen King's storylines. My 10-yr-old was reading his books, which I happily bought. YIKES! But he did become a prolific reader in the process.

Rachel said...

I bought my son comic books, graphic novels and the Guiness Book of World Records--boys love that. He still isn't much of a reader, though I did all the things you were supposed to do, eg reading him stories every night of his life, blah, blah, blah ...

Kitty said...

We tried to read to our kids but neither would sit still. They preferred to read themselves. That's when he entered his Stephen King phase. Btw, my mother is a retired librarian (high school).

Rachel said...

Ah, then you come from good stock. Thanks for visiting Kitty!

Akaky said...

The Day My Butt Went Psycho...that's why boys dont read, not enough poop jokes.