If you are of a
certain age, from North America, you may recall little educational cartoons they
used to run in the 70s called "Schoolhouse Rock". They were catchy
little short bits designed to make kids learn..ha! Most of us who did watch them
have long since forgotten the content, but not me, no! Sure, I can't recall
where I filed all the tax forms for next year, but I recall this. Egads..but I
digress..
When we last left
off, "Conjunction Junction" was a busy little railyard, joining up
words to make coherent sentences..what happened to it? Look at it
now...overgrown with weeds, rusty, broken down rolling stock, tracks in
disrepair..what a tragedy. What possibly could have caused this?
Oh right..the
Information Superhighway. That bloody thing...now anyone can zip along, paying
no heed to how words are held together. Gone is the care, the craftsmanship work
that went into making a conjunction like "this OR that". Pity...Now we
just have "lol" and smileys. Piffle!
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Three poor little railroad
cars fell victim to my evil machinations. I printed out the
"AND", "BUT" and "OR" decals on my inkjet
printer, and some other decals were used to make up some of the stencils
on the rolling stock. Standard railroad building materials were used to
make the tracks, fences and shack. .
Still don't recall the little
ditty? here it is..but don't say I didn't warn you..don't do it!
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=conjunction+junction&aq=0
You did it didn't you? Well,
don't get mad at me for that terrible earworm you now have....
Alvis 3.1
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