Pubic Schools?
We’ve probably all done it at one point or another … maybe not in writing a headline to an article read by thousands of people, but we’ve all done it.
Seriously, FITS has done it. La Socialista (a.k.a. The State newspaper) has done it – and worse.
And now, on the same day that South Carolina’s graduation rate was revealed to be among the worst in the nation – the state’s Ministry of Failure and Non-Competition (a.k.a. Department of Education) has done it, too.
Done what, exactly?
Well, here’s a screen shot from the Ministry’s home page Friday and Saturday (click to enlarge) …
Yeah, in case you didn’t click – or couldn’t squint that hard – here’s the “kicker” (i.e. sub-header) just below the headline about “National Blue Ribbon” schools …
Five pubic schools honored as tops in student achievement
Wait … pubic? Pubic?
Ha!
Clearly innocent misspellings (even from the agency responsible for educating our children) are no big deal in the grand scheme of things, but “pubic” makes us giggle, people.
Sort of like “tampon.” Or “dingleberry.”
It’s just the Beavis and Butthead in us, what can we say?
Sadly, the chronic failure of South Carolina’s public school system to teach our kids is no laughing matter, though …
Comments
By BIN News Editorial Staff on October 24th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
sic(k) willie, “…you ignorant slut.”
Our Funding Editor dearly loves that great quote from SNL. It fits FITS so well and provides a great pun.
sic(k) willie is nothing but a voucher clown.
Do the math: voucher clown = voucher pimp
Howie and his voucher pimps know the voucher scam would only hurt those who need help the most. They don’t care.
They ignore the real issues facing education in S.C.
They ignore the poverty. They ignore the (b)latent racism. They ignore the host of social problems that go along. Worst of all they ignore the shameful “minimally adequate” standard established by SC.
Everyone knows that vouchers are dead in SC.
Jakie said so.
And when that Midlands’ elected official speaks, everyone listens.
BIN News
Flair and Balanced
By James the Foot Soldier on October 24th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
BIN – you might want to head back to get some more public education and look up the definition for pun – the SNL line is NOT one.
By BIN News on October 25th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
Foot Fungus needs to clear his head. An triple espresso enema might help.
He probably ate too much left over salmon and tuna casserole after leaving it out on his tailgate during the game. His Salmonellosis explains a lot.
Hey Fungus, drink lots of fluid (non-alcoholic), and after 5 to 7 days your mind and bowels will both clear up some. Maybe.
Pun intended. :)
Moron.
BIN News Editorial Staff
Flair and Balanced
P.S. The “moron” comment was not authorized by our Funding Editor. It was injected by her Chief of Morons in good humor.
By James the Foot Soldier on October 25th, 2009 at 9:31 pm
For crying out loud BIN – since your public screwl teachers were not able:
A pun, or paronomasia, is a form of word play that deliberately exploits ambiguity between similar-sounding words for humorous or rhetorical effect.[1] Such ambiguity may arise from the intentional misuse of homophonical, homographical, homonymic, polysemic, metonymic[citation needed], or metaphorical[citation needed] language.
Here’s an example from George Carlin:
“Atheism is a non-prophet institution”. Substitutes the word “prophet” for its homophone “profit” in the common phrase “non-profit institution/
Clever huh?
One reason he made a cajillion dollars.
And your knowledge (as deep as the Platte River) is why you sit in your mommie’s basement and stalk Will.
Not sure which psychological defect is more severe – but I’m sure your mommie would prefer you out of her basement – she’s annoyed at the mushroomy odors.
By BIN News on October 26th, 2009 at 1:24 am
Foot Fungus is an unoriginal wikipedia moron:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pun
And Carlin quotes are a dime a dozen:
http://blogzarro.com/2007/05/100-greatest-george-carlin-quotes/
Fungus live by the first quote. :)
By Ministry Lackey on October 26th, 2009 at 8:46 am
I was wondering when we would cross paths Will, it was only a matter of time. Since we are slightly connected by family association, I will keep the tone light-hearted and say that yes, even we can make funny mistakes on our web site, but dissing the folks who are rank-and-file life-long pubic servants by calling their agency “The Ministry” is double-plus not good.