About as big as two football fields so far, and at least 150 feet deep. Pretty Scary!!!

Insane

Asylum for the Verbally Insane

We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes,
But the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes.
One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese,
Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.
You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice,
Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.
If the plural of man is always called men,
Why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?
If I speak of my foot and show you my feet,
And I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?
If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,
Why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?

Then one may be that, and three would be those,
Yet hat in the plural would never be hose,
And the plural of cat is cats, not cose.
We speak of a brother and also of brethren,
But though we say mother, we never say methren.
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him,
But imagine the feminine: she, shis and shim!

Let's face it - English is a crazy language.
There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger;
neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England.
We take English for granted, but if we explore its
paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly,
boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither
from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing,
grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian
eat?
Sometimes I think all the folks who grew up speaking
English should be committed to an asylum for the verbally
insane

In what other language do people
recite at a play and play at a recital?
We ship by truck but send cargo by ship.
We have noses that run and feet that smell.
We park in a driveway and drive in a parkway.
And how c an a slim chance and a fat chance be the
same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language
in which your house can burn up as it burns down,
In which case you fill in a form by filling it out
And in which case an alarm goes off by going on.

And, in closing, if Father is Pop,
How come Mother is not Mop?

Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed...
is a documentary movie by Ben Stein. He is the main character and speaker and does an excellent job. It opened in theaters yesterday. Artie and I saw it this afternoon at Deerbrook Mall in Humble. We ran into the Mayfields there. Paul and Michaela saw it yesterday up north and said everyone in the theater clapped at the end. My sister reported the same thing in San Antonio. The showing we attended had very few in attendance, probably because it was early afternoon.
It is rated PG, probably because of scenes shown from atrocities
committed against the Jews.
It tells of how scientists who would dare to say that everything may have started from "intelligent design" are ostracized. Even though you can't get the ones who do it to admit to it.
Go see this movie! Let me know what you think.

Yesterday I saw a video somewhere on Pleonast about Oprah Winfrey's religious beliefs. Artie wanted to use info from it in his Bible class tomorrow and now I can't remember who posted it and can't find it on youtube. Does anyone know who posted it? Thanks.