A Shrewdness of Apes

An Okie teacher banished to the Midwest. "Education is not the filling a bucket but the lighting of a fire."-- William Butler Yeats

Sunday, September 19, 2010

In honor of Talk Like Pirate Day, 2010!!!!!

"Blast your scuppers, ye barnacle- bitten landlubber, Come down and fight like a man!!!!"

Ahoy me hearties! And a pox upon the scurvy knave who be taking down me Yosemite Sam videos on YouTube!!!!

A mug of grog to all ye whose day was filled with plunder and growling! AAAARRGGHH!

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