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To: BryanB who wrote (11526)2/27/2000 2:37:00 PM
From: WTMHouston  Read Replies (1) of 32932
 
Antartica v. Antarctica

Hope you all appreciate this story. About two months ago, we were having an ongoing battle with my son's school about providing us with accurate answers to material so that we could make sure that he learned it correctly. One day, the wife calls me complaining that son has a test the next day on the continents AND he has to know how to spell them; but, the school has not sent us anything with all of the correct answers. All we had was a blank map of the continents.

Being a fairly well educated person, I told her not to worry. I thought I could easily handle the continents without an answer sheet from the school. I went home early that day, and just to prove my point convincingly, took the son into the pool to study. He thought it was great: wife did not appreciate the humor. For about an hour we worked on the continents in the pool. I taught my son to spell the continent at issue by breaking it into three parts that I knew he could easily remember -- Ant -- art -- ica.

Fortunately for the real story (unfortunately for the punch line of this story), my wife caught the error later that night. After getting to hear about what a great idea it was (NOT) to study in the pool and about how much we really needed the answer sheets after all, my 10 year old son and I both learned to spell "Ant - arc - tica" correctly. Neither of us shall ever forget it (I just asked him again to be sure) and unfortunately, we won't be doing any more studying in the pool.

Troy
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