Living Off The Fat Of The Land: A Beer and a FART

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Hello and Happy Friday to you. 
Here I am with another practice in pinpointing all that is great, magnificent, stupendous, you get the idea.  If you are like me you don't do this often enough.  I spend too much time wanting or saying things like "Won't it be great when this happens?".  Maybe it is great right now.

Educator
As a teacher I am excited that I am still able to bring energy with me each day to work.  I'm at the critical point of the year where it is easy to feel worn down, and weak, allowing students to display behaviors that would not have been acceptable the first week of school.  Never!!!! 
I also survived my evaluation incurring zero significant wounds or battle scars.  I am a little frightened to grade some of my students tests from today, but since I am focusing on the positives, hey they finished them. 
 
F.A.R.T.S. (Funny And Random Teacher Stuff)
I was walking behind a student who was talking about going to therapy with someone else.  They were asked why.  The reply was simply "Because I am %$#ed up."  Simple and to the point.

Everything Else

• My heart goes out to Haiti and I wished we paid more attention to countries like that when there isn't a disaster
• I have a great weekend of cross country skiing coming up
• My family rules
• I weigh less than I did last week
• Tonight I am allowing myself a sweet, sweet, beer.

Peace Out fellow human beings, educators, and citizens.  Keep fighting the good fight.
  

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Everywhere At Once

This is nuts!  What I am typing now will end up all over the place.  It will be pushed to multiple twitter accounts and then to a few blogs, all at the same time using Posterous.  I am really not sure what will happen or what it will look like just so you know.

In one place I write about teaching and in another I write about whatever I want and illustrate it with a t-shirt.  To all of you teachers out there welcome to my other side.  I may also lay a few F.A.R.T.S. down here. 

I think I will end this with a posterous F.A.R.T.

Suppose you are a principle and you have a student next door serving an in school suspension.  You are going about your daily business talking to parents, talking on the phone, dealing with discipline issues and the kid next door starts yelling back to you everything you did in the last half.  Things you said, etc.  What would you do?  It happened today.

Thanks for hanging in there with this everywhere at once experiment.  Until next time.

Peace Out.

Posted via email from The Fat Chronicles

Teachers Send Us Your F.A.R.T.S.

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Teacher Cartoon

Teacher Joke: Homework

Teacher: Where is your homework?

Pupil: I lost it fighting this kid who said you weren’t the best teacher in the school.

Funny Exam: Perhaps A Giraffe Will Help

We've all seen something like this before.

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Random Teacher Tweet: What Does Obama Think Of Teachers

You know....he may be right.

Random Teacher Tweet

Teachers Tweet: Dorky Old Teacher

Random Teacher Tweet - Basketball

March Madness...that's what I am talking about.

Funny Video: Kid Gets Busted For Upskirting A Teacher

Think back to when you were a kid. How many of your teachers would you want to take an upskirt shot of?

Rappin' Teachers - Not Sure They Should Quit Their Day Job

Crazy Student Essays

You have to read them to believe them.

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9 Hilarious, Fantastic, Superfluous, Outrageous, Funny Teacher T-Shirts

O.K. Maybe an over exaggeration, but worth checking out anyway.

Teachers Give Me An ED ACHE by upnorthpw
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Students Give Me An ED ACHE by upnorthpw
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Teacher Searching For A MOMENT OF ED by upnorthpw
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Science Retro Funny Tee by kaptainmyke
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Teaching Ninja by InnerEgo
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IRREGARDLESS by CHUCKLEMEDIA
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F.A.R.T.S. - The Swallowed Wedding Ring

F.A.R.T.S.:

As some of you know, I'm an art teacher for an inner city school. It's crazy in general, but this was really off the wall. The other day, one of the fifth graders came in to school very distraught. His teacher sent him to the guidance counselor because he wouldn't talk to her about what was bothering him. The boy lives with his dad, as his parents are divorced. The boy told the counselor that he was upset because his father was going to ask his girlfriend to marry him, and the boy didn't like Dad's girlfriend. "It's ok, though..." he said to the counselor, "they can't get married now." The counselor asked why and the boy replied, "Because I swallowed the ring this morning!" So the counselor had to call the father and explain and now they have to monitor, um, his bowel movements to retrieve the ring. He's going to be okay, but I'm sure the father and his bride-to-be are not very happy.

It sounds like a sitcom, but I swear this really happened. Truth is stranger than fiction.

Funny Teacher Video: Student Survey Highlights

This is great. I would like to see what this guy looks like. I wonder what my surveys would say over the years.

Funny Teacher Quotes

"To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler—and less trouble."

— Mark Twain

"I never did very well in math—I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally."

— Calvin Trillin

"My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers."

— Woody Allen

"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."

— Louis-Hector Berlioz

"If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure."

— Bill Gates

"Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years."

— Gracie Allen

"You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over? Movie Day."

— Jay Mohr

"As long as teachers give tests, there will always be prayer in schools."

— Unknown

Wise Advice From Kids

Here's another connection of wisdom from the young ones.

1. Never trust a dog to watch your food. - Patrick, age 10
2. Never tell your mom her diet's not working. - Michael, 14
3. Stay away from prunes. - Randy, 9
4. Never pee on an electric fence. - Robert, 13
5. Don't squat with your spurs on. - Noronha, 13
6. Don't pull dad's finger when he tells you to. - Emily, 10
7. When your mom is mad at your dad, don't let her brush your hair. - Taylia, 11
8. Don't sneeze in front of mom when you're eating crackers. - Mitchell, 12
9. Puppies still have bad breath even after eating a tic tac.- Andrew, 9
10. Never hold a dust buster and a cat at the same time. - Kyoyo, 9
11. You can't hide a piece of broccoli in a glass of milk.- Armir, 9
12. Don't wear polka-dot underwear under white shorts. - Kellie, 11
13. If you want a kitten, start out by asking for a horse. - Naomi, 15
14. Felt markers are not good to use as lipstick. - Lauren, 9
15. Don't pick on your sister when she's holding a baseball bat. - Joel, 10

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Presents For Teacher

On the last day of kindergarten, all the children brought presents for their teacher. The florist's son handed the teacher a gift. She shook it, held it up and said, "I bet I know what it is - it's some flowers!"

"That's right!" shouted the little boy.

Then the candy store owner's daughter handed the teacher a gift She held it up, shook it and said. "I bet I know what it is - it's a box of candy!"

"That's right!" shouted the little girl.

The next gift was from the liquor store owner's son. The teacher held it up and saw that it was leaking. She touched a drop with her finger and tasted it. "Is it wine?" she asked.

"No," the boy answered.

The teacher touched another drop to her tongue. "Is it champagne?" she asked.

"No," the boy answered.

Finally, the teacher said, "I give up. What is it?"

The boy replied, "A puppy!"