I think for our science project we should have a poster listing a bunch of interesting facts about Mars. Not your everyday facts, like Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun, I want to have cool things that nobody really knows.
Facts though, not made up stuff. Last year Eddie Spithausen did a project on Komodo Dragons and he had a poster called "Things you should know about the Kimono Dragon." First of all, a Kimono is a kind of dress and second everything on his poster was made up! I guess he thought that everyone would be so impressed with his paper maché dragon model that they wouldn't check his "facts."
Well, that might have worked, if the model had been any good. It didn't look like a Komodo Dragon. Actually, it didn't look like any kind of dragon at all. Mostly it looked like a cross between his bulldog, Puddles, and a rabid turkey—only green. With Chiclet teeth.
I mean, I know I can be lazy about school projects, but the least he could have done was look up what a Komodo Dragon looked like. Eddie's judgement can be a little off at times. He once got detention for calling Mr. Mulligan, the gym teacher, a meat puppet.
I still don't know what that is. I think it was in reference to Mr. Mulligan's muscles—the guy's got like 23" biceps—which is more to the point, why would you say anything stupid to a guy that could pop your head like a pimple?
You gotta wonder sometimes.
2 comments:
I laughed so hard my husband thought something was wrong with me. I love the arm thing. We have five boys so this brings back lots of crazy memories.
JenS
I sent a link to Ted's blog to my nephew Ashton, a very active 8 year-old who has been side-lined with broken thumb baseball injury. He totally indentifies with Ted. His Mom said he was laughing at the school picture then caught himself as if he shouldn't be laughing at somebody. She also said Ted's drawings remind her of the diagrams Ashton is drawing for the SnowCone stand he dreams of building.
I think you have a winner. What a delight!
Becky
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