Knick Knack

By Gretchen and Samantha

This old man
He played one
He played knick knack on my thumb.
With a knick knack patty whack
Give a dog a bone.
This old man came rolling home.

This old man
He played two
He played knick knack while turning blue.
With a knick knack patty whack
Give a dog a bone.
This old man came rolling home.

This old man
He played three
He played knick knack in a tree.
With a knick knack patty whack
Give a dog a bone.
This old man came rolling home.

This old man
He played four
He played knick knack on a door.
With a knick knack patty whack
Give a dog a bone.
This old man came rolling home.

This old man
He played five
He played knick knack on a bee hive.
With a knick knack patty whack
Give a dog a bone.
This old man came rolling home.

This old man
He played six
He played knick knack with some chicks.
With a knick knack patty whack
Give a dog a bone.
This old man came rolling home.

This old man
He played seven
He played knick knack on his way to heaven.
With a knick knack patty whack
Give a dog a bone.
This old man came rolling home.

This old man
He played eight
He played knick knack on a first date.
With a knick knack patty whack
Give a dog a bone.
This old man came rolling home.

This old man
He played nine
He played knick knack while going back in time.
With a knick knack patty whack
Give a dog a bone.
This old man came rolling home.

This old man
He played ten
He played knick knack on Big Ben.
With a knick knack patty whack
Give a dog a bone.
This old man came rolling home.

This old man
He played eleven
He played knick knack because the bread was unleven
With a knick knack patty what
Give a dog a bone.
This only man came rolling home.

This old man
He played twelve
He played knick knack on some elves.
With a knick knack patty whack
Give a dog a bone
This old man came rolling home.

This old man
He played thirty
He played knick knack because he was dirty.
With a knick knack patty whack
Give a dog a bone.
This old man came rolling home.

This old me
He played a thousand
Because in German its ine tausend
With a knick knack patty what
Give a dog a bone.
This old man came rolling home.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Acid Paper v Acid Free Paper

In my efforts to be a good student, I decided to work on the works cited page for my media law paper and while searching for publication information in my textbook, I discovered that my book was published on acid-free paper.

This is a new concept to me; not because I assumed that everything was printed on acid containing paper but because I didn't know that there had to be a disclaimer about acid paper and non-acid paper. I decided to share this fact with friend Jake and friend Jake said he was aware of this difference.

So, I inquired as to whether I could die from eating a book. Apparently, in older times, when books were published, they were published on acid paper to keep the pages from fading. Nifty eh? Well, in our lovely environment preservation mentality, paper people have come up with a new acid-free paper that does the same thing as the acid paper. Cool beans, right?

And as far as the dying from literary consumption is concerned . . . I think just cramming the paper down your throat would kill you, but as far as death from acid paper, neither Jake nor I think it would happen.

Another random fact for ya'lls fact books.

Have a good one.

Pictures: More leaf fun from when I was last home. First is Gretchen with leaves. Second is us with leaves. Third is out shadows with leaves.

Thanksgiving Break starts the 21st. I can't wait to relax.

Halloween; Austin Manor Style

Unlike my other posts, I am going to make this one work with the title. So, there was a Halloween Party at Austin Manor.

That wasn't much fun (the title pertaining part because the party was excellent).

Now what. Daylight savings tonight; 2:00 am I believe. Stay up and party and the like. I'm super excited because my internal alarm clock doesn't let me sleep past 7:30 anyway and it doesn't have a daylight savings switch so 6:30 here I come. Oh well, at least I won't miss class . . . bad joke . . . really, really bad . . . but good for those classes that have attendance policies, and our professors can do that because out classes are small and they know, magic-like, or they hand around paper that you sign. I wonder if they actually look at the name or if it gets to a point that know handwriting or if they just count. It would be interesting to sign someone else's name, not like a name from someone in the class but like Benjamin Franklin or Joseph Heller or Jennifer Lopez . . . would that count as identity theft?

Anyway, I wonder, but with my luck there would be absent people and then it would get confusing and then I'd be counted absent when I really sat through the whole lecture. Oh well.

Watched the Twilight preview just a bit ago. Finished the book for time two yesterday.

Zoe just turned on her pants putting on song.

Anyway, have a great one.

Pictures: #1 us the mega sundae that Zoe and I got at Hoggy's the other night. #2 is my Halloween costume. I was Miss. Matched. #3 is the brain at the Halloween party. #4 is the line up for the costume contest fashion show.