VAMPIRES
Worst Nicknames for Boxers;
Harold “Glass” Jones
Thomas “No Hitting in the Face” Finkle
Dewy Decimal System “Vampire”
To the shock and disbelief of most insane scholars and ugly teenage boys, there
is no spot in the Dewey Decimal System for vampires, in spite of a good deal of convincing online information.
How could such a thing be left off when articles such as this
float around::
In any case, numerous vampire accounts have since been discovered in local newspapers, archives, and correspondence from New England that suggest the legacy of the TB epidemic in the 19th century left many families with no other alternative than to exhume their relatives and put their `vampires' to rest. However, the vampire myth only further fueled itself when these freshly resurrected family members appeared as if they were actually `undead' - their fingernails were still growing, their skin looked like it had grown new layers, and the body looked well-fed, even plump. …from EXN.COM
Not fully convinced yet?! Let me put the nail in the coffin;
from: Earlene
To: Teacher2Teacher Public Discussion
Date: 2002092418:04:17
Subject: Halloween math bulletin board
One of my favorite bulletin boards was inspired by an article in a
World Book-Childcraft book, copyright 1982, book 13 "Mathemagic", that
I picked up at a garage sale. I used the idea for a Math Club Society
bulletin board in college.
It is a proof that vampires cannot exist, because if one vampire bites
2 people who become vampires and they each bite 2 people who
each...soon there will be more vampires than there are people in the
entire earth. So that if I am not a vampire and you are not a
vampire, then no one is a vampire. Of course the assumptions must be
true for this to be a valid proof, but the professors checked out the
proof and it held up. So you can take a 4th grade level explanation
and jazz it up to college level. It made a good bulletin board for
October. I think it had something to do with the Binomial Theorem or
whatever...how quickly we forget! I think high school students would
appreciate it, and you could use charts and graphs instead of a formal
logical proof. FROM THE OKLAHOMO STATE TEACHER’S MESSAGE BOARD
Now while this may actually look like a rather strong argument against the existence
Of vampires…a reply to her post should be noted.
“…Ms. Hines IS a vampire.” –from Timmy Smith, 5th grade.
Harold “Glass” Jones
Thomas “No Hitting in the Face” Finkle
Dewy Decimal System “Vampire”
To the shock and disbelief of most insane scholars and ugly teenage boys, there
is no spot in the Dewey Decimal System for vampires, in spite of a good deal of convincing online information.
How could such a thing be left off when articles such as this
float around::
In any case, numerous vampire accounts have since been discovered in local newspapers, archives, and correspondence from New England that suggest the legacy of the TB epidemic in the 19th century left many families with no other alternative than to exhume their relatives and put their `vampires' to rest. However, the vampire myth only further fueled itself when these freshly resurrected family members appeared as if they were actually `undead' - their fingernails were still growing, their skin looked like it had grown new layers, and the body looked well-fed, even plump. …from EXN.COM
Not fully convinced yet?! Let me put the nail in the coffin;
from: Earlene
To: Teacher2Teacher Public Discussion
Date: 2002092418:04:17
Subject: Halloween math bulletin board
One of my favorite bulletin boards was inspired by an article in a
World Book-Childcraft book, copyright 1982, book 13 "Mathemagic", that
I picked up at a garage sale. I used the idea for a Math Club Society
bulletin board in college.
It is a proof that vampires cannot exist, because if one vampire bites
2 people who become vampires and they each bite 2 people who
each...soon there will be more vampires than there are people in the
entire earth. So that if I am not a vampire and you are not a
vampire, then no one is a vampire. Of course the assumptions must be
true for this to be a valid proof, but the professors checked out the
proof and it held up. So you can take a 4th grade level explanation
and jazz it up to college level. It made a good bulletin board for
October. I think it had something to do with the Binomial Theorem or
whatever...how quickly we forget! I think high school students would
appreciate it, and you could use charts and graphs instead of a formal
logical proof. FROM THE OKLAHOMO STATE TEACHER’S MESSAGE BOARD
Now while this may actually look like a rather strong argument against the existence
Of vampires…a reply to her post should be noted.
“…Ms. Hines IS a vampire.” –from Timmy Smith, 5th grade.
posted by FIREPLACES | 3:01 PM
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