Schoolhouse Rock
Anthony D'Atri
Congratulations, Bill! You're a law!
>>Exclamation, hallelujah! hallelujah! halleluja! Darn! That's the end.
Rats!
>I bought the grammer video and showed it to a class of undergraduate
>writing students here at the University of Waterloo. Alas, they were too
>young to remember it.
Heathens.
>Just a taste.
Conjunction Junction, what's your function?
Three is a magic number ...
Michelle J Morton
Just wanted to add my $.02
Michelle
Allan Liscum
: "inter-planet Janet, she's a galaxy girl..."
: Just wanted to add my $.02
: Michelle
Her solar system is from a future world
She travels like a rocket through the comet team
There's never been a planet janet hasn't seen.
I like:
"Hey, little Twelve Toes..." (can't remember the rest)
Allan.
Michelle J Morton
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Anybody know where one can purchase videocassettes of schoolhouse rock
"episodes"?
-Michelle
University of New Hampshire
mj...@christa.unh.edu
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In article <CvKGo...@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca> tcka...@watarts.uwaterloo.ca (Todd Karges) writes:
>From: g55...@aurora.lasc.lockheed.com (Andrew Robinson)
>
>>How many people here learned their grammar (or parts of it) from those
>>catchy songs from Scholastic Rock. You know:
>>
>>Conjunction junction, what that function? Hooking up words, phrases and
>>clauses...
>>
>>A noun is a person, place, or thing...
>>
>>I'm just a bill, on capitol hill...
>>
>>Exclamation, hallelujah! hallelujah! halleluja! Darn! That's the end.
>>
>>Great memory, huh? Too bad I couldn't remember a math formula long
>>enough to take a test in college.
>>
>>Andrew- It's not your Gramma, it's Grammar Rock.
>
>Knowledge Unlimited, an educational supplier in Wisconsin sells these on
>videotape. They are $12.95 (US) per tape and divided into four categories:
>Grammer Rock
>Multiplication Rock
>History Rock
>Science Rock
>
>I bought the grammer video and showed it to a class of undergraduate
>writing students here at the University of Waterloo. Alas, they were too
>young to remember it. It's great great stuff, tho.
>
>The grammer video includes:
>Noun: You know it's quite interesting
> A Noun's a person place or thing...
>
>Verb: Verb! That's what's happening!
> I can take a noun and bend it!
> Gimmie a noun...
>
>Pronoun: I met a man named Rufus Xavier Sasperilla...
> He had a sister named Gabriella Rafaella Sasperilla..
>
>Adverb: Lolly lolly lolly get your adverbs here!
> Father, son and Lolly get your adverbes here!
> Very truly quicly get your adverbs here...
>
>Adjective: Got home from camping one spring
> Saw people places and things
> The moment we arrived
> Friends asked us to describe
> The people, places, and every last thing
>
> So we unpacked our adjectives.
>
> I unpacked "frustrating" first
> Reached in and found the word "worst"
> Next I picked "soggy" and
> Then I picked "foggy" and
> Then I proceded to tell them our tale...
>
>Interjections: Well Geraldine played hard to get woah-oh!
> Geraldo knew he'd woo her ye-et
> Despite her objections
> He forced his affections
> So Geraldine hollered some IN-TER-JEC-TIONS
>
> "Well! I've never been so insulted in all my life"
> "Hmph! Of all the nerve!"
> "Hey! You're kinda cute!"
>
>
>
>Just a taste.
>
>Knowledge unlimited's address is:
> Knowledge Unlimited
> P.O. Box 52
> Madison, WI 53701-0052
>
>phone toll free: 1-800-356-2303
>
>They'll send you a catalogue if you ask for one. Oops, that's
>"catalog." Keep forgetting this is alt.culture.US.1970s :)
>
>Todd
>(in cold cold Canada<g>)