http://thepopdiner.disqus.com/enWed, 24 Oct 2007 15:16:30 -0000http://blogs.nashuatelegraph.com/thepopdiner/2007/10/10/thou-shalt-not-covet-thy-neighbors-two-all-beef-patties-special-sauce-lettuce-cheese/#comment-1923207<p>we are fated to get the celebrities we deserve - but it seems some people are ruining it for the rest of us!</p><br><p>Back in grade school, one of my teachers took a pagre right out of School House rock, and taught us to memorize all the linking verbs, prepositions etc... by singing them to Christmas carols... cut to high school where we had to memorize all the prepositions, and I lost points for jotting down the song I learned 7 years prior and not listing them alphabetically.</p>scottWed, 24 Oct 2007 15:16:30 -0000http://blogs.nashuatelegraph.com/thepopdiner/2007/10/10/thou-shalt-not-covet-thy-neighbors-two-all-beef-patties-special-sauce-lettuce-cheese/#comment-1923206<p>I am totally a "musical" learner. Thirty years later, I still remember all the lessons from Schoolhouse Rock. And like you, all my politics, geography, grammar and multiplication facts are from those imbedded songs.</p><br><p>C'mon, sing along! "Conjunction Junction, what's your function? Hitching up word boxcars and making them function..."</p>KathleenFri, 12 Oct 2007 04:12:36 -0000