Tuesday
Question for the Day
I REALLY need someone to explain to me how it is possible that people are living on space stations for months at a time, most of the population of this country has the internet on their cell phones, yet my 2nd grade students are using the same exact style of glue bottles I used back around the time electricity was invented and I am using the same exact style of paper clips that my teachers used to unplug the glue bottles.
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I think its because there isn't enough money leftover from the national space exploration budget to fund the glue bottle technology fund. By the way, Happy Thanksgiving!
Do you have an IMPROVEMENT that you would like to propose? Bring it on!
No, _I_ don't have an improvement, but what in heaven's name have the people at Elmer's been doing for the last 30 years?????????????????? Obviously not figuring out a better glue bottle!
I think Mr. and Mrs. Elmer are sipping mai-tai's on a beach in Maui. They are probably singing "Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be, the glue bottles worked forever, LET IT BE!"
I guess it COULD be argued that the glue bottle form and function are correct, but we need to be creating better CHILDREN who remember to screw the applicator lid all the way down before walking away from the glue bottle.
Oh, and how did those "no sharpen" pencils work last year? I've been curious.
AND I had to remove my post and resubmit because I transposed two letters in "children." I think I need to step AWAY from the glue bottle.
It's probably the same Elmer's glue bottle/paper clip they are using on the space station.
Tony and I were discussing the non-evolving glue bottle this a.m. and realized that the glue bottle was actually the "New Modern Glue Application Contraption" when we were kids. I recall jars of paste with orange lids that had white sticks attached. I remember kids eating THAT glue. I remember the minty smell. At least we don't have glue eater with which to contend anymore.
THey did try other bottles of glue.. they had a different head on them... they didn't last so apparently what we have is what we get! I guess schools could switch to glue sticks! But... if that happened how would kids make glue fingernails in the space in their ruler???
If it ain't broke, why fix it?
Spoken like someone who doesn't spend 15-30 minutes/ day using a paper clip to unplug glue bottles, or throwing away glue bottles where the plastic is irrepairably mis-contorted. It's broken; it's very, very broken.
Mis-contorted...mis-contorted... would that be the OPPOSITE of contorted or possibly BEYOND contorted or contorted in the wrong way?
Mis-contorted. . .
I remember those paste bottles too - with the stick and the fresh smell.
I don't think it's the glue bottles, I think it is the 2nd graders. Glue bottles don't clog up without the help of 2nd graders :)
Too funny! What have those Elmer's people been up too? I must have the talent of a second grader because my glue bottles plug up too and I promise I know how to close the cap. Obviously what I need is a good paper clip. Thanks!
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