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Potatoe, on Sep 9 2006, 11:43 AM, said:

Our english teacher is also grading the presentation and it needs to be atleast 5 mins long....

At least 5 minutes long, eh?

Get the instrumental to Rapper's Delight and make up your own lyrics to fit the song.

It's 6 minutes long or something, which is pretty handy, eh?

A-mice-mice-and-men you say?
Well here's my essay song...
It's gonna be rapped, and you'll be trapped,
Now correct me if I'm wrong...

etc.

Here's the song (I'm posting it in the Music vids bit also) -

[A. J. Raffles]

PrejudiceSucks, on Sep 9 2006, 10:50 AM, said:

A-mice-mice-and-men you say?
Well here's my essay song...
It's gonna be rapped, and you'll be trapped,
Now correct me if I'm wrong...

etc.

Great idea. Although rhyming "say" with "es-say" might produce even more groans.

[PrejudiceSucks]

A. J. Raffles, on Sep 9 2006, 12:42 PM, said:

PrejudiceSucks, on Sep 9 2006, 10:50 AM, said:

A-mice-mice-and-men you say?
Well here's my essay song...
It's gonna be rapped, and you'll be trapped,
Now correct me if I'm wrong...

etc.

Great idea. Although rhyming "say" with "es-say" might produce even more groans.

Heh!

Quite possibly better!

"So my name is po-ta-toe,
And here is my es-say,
It's only a plan, you understan',
But listen to what I say"

[Potatoe]

PrejudiceSucks, on Sep 9 2006, 12:06 PM, said:

A. J. Raffles, on Sep 9 2006, 12:42 PM, said:

PrejudiceSucks, on Sep 9 2006, 10:50 AM, said:

A-mice-mice-and-men you say?
Well here's my essay song...
It's gonna be rapped, and you'll be trapped,
Now correct me if I'm wrong...

etc.

Great idea. Although rhyming "say" with "es-say" might produce even more groans.

Heh!

Quite possibly better!

"So my name is po-ta-toe,
And here is my es-say,
It's only a plan, you understan',
But listen to what I say"

Heh, yeah. I think I won't rap, my normal presentation already gets enough groans, I was half way through and it was already 5 mins. Just for laughs I'm going to try and get 10 minutes xD

[Blood-Pigggy]

Gasp, how dare you even joke about defiling that classic song.

[DeathDude]

Bah everyone knows the Megadeth's song Of Mice And Men is better even though don't think it has to do with the book, lyric time! Okay so it doesn't but it uses the name so yeah.

@AJ- Just a sort of introductary english course mostly, mainly to fulfill my degree requirement, got 3 essays and one research paper to do which isn't due till next term, and am going to be reading Frankenstein and Things Fall Apart.

Oh and a 5 min presentation, that's nothing, I got a 10-15 min one to do for my Canada in World Affairs on an article.


Megadeth- Of Mice And Men

The fire burns on and on
That drives me on till all is gone
Except the simple plans
Of mice and men

Back when I was just seventeen
I thought that I knew everything
I could make it in this scene
To be a rising star that only gleamed
But all the answers disagreed
With the questions held for me

I was legal now at twenty-one
I knew the way the world should run
My God just look what I had done
Simply drunk and having fun
Looked for friends, but I found none
All alone at twenty-one
[Solo - Poland]

The fire burns on and on
That drives me on till all is gone
Except the simple plans
Of mice and men
[Solo - fills Poland]

At twenty-five I was surprised
That I was even half-alive
Somehow I managed to survive
I felt my body doing time
And in my back a hundred knives
From my friends at twenty-five

And now as Gabriel sounds my warning bell
I'd buy your life, if you would sell
A year or two if less compelled
So live your life and live it well
There's not much left of me to tell
I just got back up each time I fell
[Solo - Poland]

The fire burns on and on
That drives me on till all is gone
Except the simple plans
Of mice and men
[Solo - fills Poland]
[Solo - Mustaine]

The fire burns on and on
That drives me on till all is gone
Except the simple plans
Of mice and men
[Solo - fills Poland]

[A. J. Raffles]

DeathDude, on Sep 9 2006, 05:22 PM, said:

@AJ- Just a sort of introductary english course mostly, mainly to fulfill my degree requirement, got 3 essays and one research paper to do which isn't due till next term, and am going to be reading Frankenstein and Things Fall Apart.

That's an odd combination you've got there. Did you get to choose which texts you want to study or was the person fixing the syllabus just feeling a bit random on that day?

[DeathDude]

Nah didn't get a choice unfortunately, probably the random part my guess is.

[PrejudiceSucks]

Ach... actually am back at college now, here's my rating so far :

Modern History : Even better than Cuba
English Language : Super-spiffing! (it's more about socio-linguistics than I thought, which is nice)
GCSE Spanish : Muy bien!
German : Mein Lehrer ist ganz langweilig
French : Terrible! (which means great - false friend-tastic)

[DeathDude]

Whoa 3 languages well plus english, that's a lot to do, and ya prob know this already but think ya meant for spanish muy bueno, or español es muy bien.

[PrejudiceSucks]

DeathDude, on Sep 13 2006, 08:46 PM, said:

Whoa 3 languages well plus english, that's a lot to do, and ya prob know this already but think ya meant for spanish muy bueno, or español es muy bien.

Aye, I'd only had one lesson by that time, so I was just remembering what I picked up in Mallorca, although that's Catalan, rather than Spanish, I suppose.

Anyway, now I know better, hurrah!

*edits*

And yes, it is rather a lot, but I got A*s in French and German (the best attainable mark) and an A in English and History, so it should all go pretty smoothly, plus I'm actually interested in the subjects I'm taking, which is always a good thing when you're not forced to learn them.

[DeathDude]

Totally agree with ya on that. Forced courses are never fun, and more annoying at the college/university level because at times got to take a course, that goes towards your degree requirements that ya might not like, but cools that's good that ya like the courses ya taking too does help.

[A. J. Raffles]

PrejudiceSucks, on Sep 13 2006, 07:22 PM, said:

German : Mein Lehrer ist ganz langweilig

[boring German-teacher mode]"Ganz" isn't quite the right word here. The regular way of saying it would be "mein Lehrer ist sehr langweilig" (or "echt langweilig", if you want it to sound less like a sentence taken out of a textbook). If you want it to be emphatic, you'd choose other adverbs, though, like "extrem", "total", "schrecklich", "entsetzlich" or "furchtbar".[/boring German-teacher mode]

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A. J. Raffles, on Sep 14 2006, 08:59 PM, said:

PrejudiceSucks, on Sep 13 2006, 07:22 PM, said:

German : Mein Lehrer ist ganz langweilig

[boring German-teacher mode]"Ganz" isn't quite the right word here. The regular way of saying it would be "mein Lehrer ist sehr langweilig" (or "echt langweilig", if you want it to sound less like a sentence taken out of a textbook). If you want it to be emphatic, you'd choose other adverbs, though, like "extrem", "total", "schrecklich", "entsetzlich" or "furchtbar".[/boring German-teacher mode]

Ach!

If only my languages weren't so rusty after a while out of use!

I thought "ganz" could be used in the same sense as both "sehr" and "ziemlich", though, as with "quite" in English - i.e. "The meal I had in Restaurant Pretenseuse was quite nice, but it was quite pricey also".

Although yeah, "schrecklich" and such could also apply, although it's more that he speaks sooooo slooooowly than him being a terrible per se.

Hmm...

Anyway, thanks for the casual-sounding German help, it'll come in handy, methinks.

[A. J. Raffles]

PrejudiceSucks, on Sep 14 2006, 08:20 PM, said:

Ach!

If only my languages weren't so rusty after a while out of use!

I thought "ganz" could be used in the same sense as both "sehr" and "ziemlich", though, as with "quite" in English - i.e. "The meal I had in Restaurant Pretenseuse was quite nice, but it was quite pricey also".

That doesn't qualify as rusty yet, but a little extra shine can't hurt, right?

Well, it can be, but not always. For example, if you wanted to say "not quite perfect" in German, you'd have to use "ganz", not "sehr". As a rule of thumb, the closest German equivalent to "quite" is "ziemlich" ("relativ" and "einigermaßen" work similarly, although they don't mean exactly the same; they're closer to "relatively" and "fairly"), while "ganz" is more or less used in the sense of "entirely", which is the literal translation (as in "Ich bin nicht ganz davon überzeugt, daß er der Richtige für den Job ist"). "Sehr" is probably the weakest of all those emphatic adverbs; in 99% of cases it just means "very".