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Title: LAT Sun. 8/14 Matt Skoczen
Post by: magus on August 14, 2011, 10:08:20 AM
Keeping Quiet

 :)
Country albums?   ATLASES
Batch of Brownies   TROOP [probably should have a question mark because “batch” is substandard when referring to people]
It was once yours   THINE
Theme: intrusive SH
Vaudeville hook?   SHTICKCOLLAR
Agnostics' reactions to grace?   PRAYERSHRUGS
Analyst for Kings and Senators?   HOCKEYSHRINK

Pet peeve from an old teaching supervisor:
RETEACH [We can’t reteach since teaching presupposes learning.  When we use reteach we really mean re-present, until the learning takes place, at which time it becomes taught.  So “I taught it, but they didn’t learn it” doesn’t cut it.]

 ???
OHH   [not sure this is a real word]

 :(
Semana seventh   DIA [with so many other choices, why use Spanish semana?]

 :-\
Perhaps too many phrases:
IMSOMAD, NOTHERE, TOOSLOW, SAYSOK

RATING:   ;D ;D Three grins = Excellent: Loved it; Two grins = Good: Enjoyed it; One grin = Satisfactory: A bit bland for my taste; One teardrop = Unsatisfying: No fun