What does the fox say?

I take attendance by having the students answer a question.

What does the fox say? (previously: 2017, wikipedia)

Not very many onomatopoeias this time:

• woof!
• meow
• ka ki ka ki (x3)
• nya, ring ding
• yip
• Meow Meow Meow

Many people who gave the fox the ability to speak full sentences:

• How much wood can a woodchuck chuck?
• Elvis is alive in Chicago
• Cancel Futurama Again
• "I don't like Chrome"
• here we go again...
• "I am a fox."
• "I wish I wasn't a fox :("

And ... a third category of "other ones":

• run it through valgrind
• whatever sound fox make
• nothing
• noises

I appreciate the student who just wrote a long squiggle. Is it a noise? Is it an approximate signature? Is it just a symbol to register "I was here"?

This post's theme word is whigmaleerie / whigmaleery (n), "a whim" or "a fanciful contrivance." Foxes speaking? What whigmaleerie!

What is one of your hidden talents?

I take attendance by asking the students a question.

What is one of your hidden talents? (previously: 2017 2016)

A surprising number listed sleep-related talents. We are mid-semester, so perhaps students' minds are a bit focused on this now.

• sleeping through anything
• I can sleep
• I am good at stealing mattresses
• I nap very well
• I can sleep through 5 alarms
• Not sure if it's hidden but I can sleep all day long.

Others had performance skills:

• I am a great singer in the shower
• juggling
• I can sing??
• I can spin a book.
• oboe
• I play a mean kazoo
• I can climb trees real good
• playing guitar behind the back
• marching
• I can do a split
• bending my thumb backwards
• I am quite flexible
• I can write with both my hands
• I'm somewhat ambidexterous
• I can't get dizzy
• getting injured
• burping on command
• eating a lot
• drinking copious amounts of coffee
• procrastination
• 
  

Some were unusual:

• smelling fire
• hair!
• naming English monarchs
• crying silently

And others took the "hidden" quite strongly:

• wouldn't be hidden if I told
• N/A
• couldn't tell you

The phrase "a mean kazoo" will stick with me.

This post's theme word is trombenik / trombenick (n), "a lazy or boastful person." The trombenick never practiced trombone, but claimed to be a virtuoso.