in case anyone still had any lingering doubts as to whose child Gwen is

[aryanhwy]

I present you with this, which was in Gwen's school bag when I rifled through it last night.



I would bet good money that this came about because she was asked to write her name.

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There is a lovely story about Joel when he was in grade school, regarding the week's spelling words. They were asked to write sentences containing all of the spelling words. He asked if it were acceptable to have more than one word in the same sentence, and the teacher said Yes.

His sentence? "These are our spelling words for this week: [list]."

His teacher was not amused.

Comments

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

When I was a kid, I routinely got 100% on spelling exams because 1) I read a ton from an early age and had a large vocabulary; 2) mis-spelled words jump out at me. I can't not see them.
So I was really pissed when I got dinged for mis-spelling "grey". My argument to the teacher was "That's how Gandalf spells it!"

[(Anonymous)]

This is utterly brilliant.

[silme.livejournal.com]

Was Joel not even given an accolade for the appropriate use of a colon? :)