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 Can you keep a straight face when you are about to play a practical joke on someone? Depending on how funny the joke is, I can keep a straight face. Usually, though, girls have a hard time doing this because they can get the giggles. I used to laugh a lot. Now, I'm trying my best to hold my laughs. I only laugh if my friends have an embarrassing blooper. I have something funny to tell you now.

Yesterday, we had gone to the computer lab and we had to sit in number order. I'm #16. Behind me and in front of me were boys. The boy in front of me made farting noises the whole time our teacher had been gone. When she came in and started giving announcements, that boy, so consumed in making those noises, made a farting noise. Our teacher eyed him mostly as she continued to talk.

This may not seem funny to you, but if you actually witnessed it, you would know.

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Are you lily-livered? Most of the time I am. Depending on the situation, I will chicken out on things. Another meaning of lily-livered is to be scared of rides like roller coasters or swinging hard on a swing or bungee jumping. For some reason, I feel sick after swinging on a swing for a while. I think this is because ever since I was little I hated wind in my face and know I'm gong on a swing that is open--air and the wind brushes against you. For me to not think about it, I just sing while I swing. That kind of rhymes! :) Now, teachers may have told you this when you were in kindergarten and people still do it in 6th grade. It is called snitching. Snitch means to tell on someone when somebody is in a grudge with someone else. But, people tell on someone even if it is not a big deal. It makes it into a situation like the story,"The Boy Who Cried Wolf." So please don't be a snitcher and more people will care about you even if you are not their friend.

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Many people in this new generation to come, may be vidiots. Not necessarily meaning they are not smart just because they play video games, watch T.V. and the like. But because they are addicted to it. People that are not smart and are vidiots have to stop being vidiots and idiots and be more wise. Tee hee. I think that was a little too strong for your ears. Anyway, I'm practically taking a stand on this subject right now because it won't be a good result in the future.
 The picture below, I thought, was related to what I was talking about.

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The Egyptian cobra which had been missing at the Bronx Zoo, March 26th has been found! Now, Bronx Zoo and The New York Daily are asking people in the public to vote for their favorite name for this mischievous cobra. Following are the options:
 - Agnes, which is Greek for pure or holy, and is also a reference to St. Agnes.

- Amaunet, an ancient Egyptian goddess, meaning 'the female hidden one."

- Cleopatra, the last ruler of ancient Egypt, who supposedly killed herself by means of an Egyptian cobra bite.

- Subira, which is Egyptian for patient.

- Mia, an abbreviation for Missing In Action.

Surprisingly, more people were excited and amazed about the cobra being lost rather than be scared. Its venom could kill a human in 15 minutes! But people were scared that the snake might slither down their chimney and somehow get into their homes. The zookeepers say they lured the snake in by scattering around rodent-scented shavings.

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Did anybody watch the cricket games recently? India won against Pakistan and Sri Lanka. I'm not sure who they are playing next, but India sure is playing very mean. 

  Are any of you guys pretty laid-back? or Are you guys always tensed up and a worrywart? As you probably guessed, being laid-back means to be calm and relaxed. It does not necessarily mean to be lazy which probably most of you would have thought if I had not given you a clue.

"When the going gets tough, the tough get going."
This means when your surroundings are becoming too tough for you the tough people start helping. But this usually happens in places like businesses and schools. It is said the father of John F. Kennedy made this quote up. If somewhere other than businesses and schools are too tough for you it's better to leg it.

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Would any of you go into a postmodem depression if you had to stay somewhere there were no electronics? Now if you guessed that it meant to be depressed because no electronics were around, you are right. Science Camp was pretty much a place where some people would not be in this depression, but would have been very sad to not be able to use electronics.

Does anyone get very thrilled if they get a  new e-mail or a new message on their cell phone? If they do, they have textual satisfaction. I don't really have textual satisfaction since I don't care about what I get in my e-mail or phone. Most people who have not used electronics in a while will have textual satisfaction though.

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Sept. 9, 2003

In this Know Your English archive, there are many different words that are introduced into everybody's wordrobe. Wordrobe being one of them, meaning your vocabulary. 

Fantabulous- combination of  fantastic and fabulous
Egosurfing- surfing the internet to see how many times your name appears
Cookie Pusher - one who flatters people in order to get ahead in life
                           - a lazy person
Worrywart - a person who always worries about things