Tuesday, March 26, 2024

What is your favorite fruit?

 I take attendance by having the students answer a question (previously 2017).

What is your favorite fruit?

  • watermelon (x7)
  • mango (x6)
  • apple (x2)
  • grapes (x2)
  • raspberries (x2)
  • pears
  • bananas
  • pineapple
  • peach
  • clementine
  • strawberry
  • blueberry
  • orange
I'm surprised that watermelon surpassed mango, the previous champion.

This post's theme word is tergiversate (v), "to evade, to equivocate; to change one's loyalties." The student population tergiversated between large, sweet, round fruits.

Thursday, March 21, 2024

Quoth the raven

 I take attendance by having the students answer a question (previously 2016, 2017).

Quoth the raven:

  • nevermore
  • caw caw caw
  • IDK
  • ??
  • [checkmark]
  • I don't know any ravens
  • no clue
  • !
  • what is that
  • no
  • shishkabob
  • type type
  • moo
  • French poetry is better
  • no clue
  • What does the fox say?
  • I don't know
  • Nevermore, lest I shuffle off this mortal coil and land in a bowl of soup
I think that the "?" and "IDK" votes swept this time, maybe the reference isn't popular enough amongst The Youths Nowadays.


This post's theme word is nuciform (adj), "like a nut." There are many bird techniques for obtaining food from nuciform prisons.