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[scarscar93]

so excited for tomorrow.

Club day & early release day.

 

[MickeyisBeast]

 

[AmandaSparks730]

"The Sneetches"
This story offers varied lessons. It portrays the senselessness of prejudice and discrimination, and also a lesson of materialism and entrepreneurship.

Sneetches are a group of vaguely avian yellow creatures who live on a beach. Some Sneetches have a green star on their bellies, and in the beginning of the story the absence of a star is the basis for discrimination. Sneetches who have stars on their bellies are part of the "in crowd," while Sneetches without stars are shunned and consequently mopey.

In the story, a con man named Sylvester McMonkey McBean, calling himself a "fix-it-up chappie," appears, driving a cart of strange machines. He offers the Sneetches without stars a chance to have them by going through his Star-On machine, for three dollars. The treatment is instantly popular, but this upsets the original star-bellied Sneetches, as they are in danger of losing their method for discriminating between Sneetches. Then McBean tells them about his Star-Off machine, costing ten dollars. The Sneetches formerly with stars happily pay the money to have them removed in order to remain special.

However, McBean does not share the prejudices of the Sneetches, and allows the recently starred Sneetches through this machine as well. Ultimately this escalates, with the Sneetches running from one machine to the next,

"until neither the Plain nor the Star-Bellies knew
whether this one was that one... or that one was this one
or which one was what one... or what one was who."
This continues until the Sneetches are penniless and McBean departs a rich man, amused by their folly. Despite his assertion that "you can't teach a Sneetch," the Sneetches learn from this experience that neither plain-belly nor star-belly Sneetches are superior, and they are able to get along and become friends.

 

[AmandaSparks730]

Hop on Pop is a 1963 children's picture book by Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel). It was published as part of the Random House Beginner Books series, and is subtitled "The Simplest Seuss for Youngest Use". It contains several short poems about a variety of characters, and is designed to introduce basic phonics concepts to children.

A popular choice of elementary school teachers and children's librarians, Hop on Pop ranked sixteenth on Publishers Weekly's 2001 list of the all-time best-selling hardcover books for children.[1] One of its most notable advocates is former United States First Lady Laura Bush, who listed it as her favorite book in a 2006 Wall Street Journal article. "It features Dr. Seuss's typically wonderful illustrations and rhymes, of course, but the main thing for me is the family memory—the loving memory—that the book evokes of George lying on the floor and reading it to our daughters, Barbara and Jenna. They were little bitty things, and they took Hop on Pop literally, and jumped on him—we have the pictures to prove it," she wrote.[2]

One of Geisel's manuscript drafts for the book contained the lines, "When I read I am smart / I always cut whole words apart. / Con Stan Tin O Ple, Tim Buk Too / Con Tra Cep Tive, Kan Ga Roo."[3] Geisel had included the contraceptive reference to ensure that publisher Bennett Cerf was reading the manuscript. Cerf did notice the line,[4] and the poem was changed to the following: "My father / can read / big words, too. / Like... / Constantinople / and / Timbuktu."[3]

 

[MickeyisBeast]

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xD

 

[AmandaSparks730]

The Butter Battle Book is a rhyming story written by Dr. Seuss. It was published by Random House Books for Young Readers on January 12, 1984. It is an anti-war story; specifically, a parable about arms races in general and mutually assured destruction and nuclear weapons in particular. The Butter Battle Book was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

This book was written during the Cold War era, and reflects the concerns of the time, especially the perceived possibility that all life on earth could be destroyed in a nuclear war. It can also be seen as a satirical work, with its depiction of a deadly war based on a senseless conflict over something as trivial as a breakfast food. The concept of a war based on toast is similar to the war between Lilliput and Blefuscu in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, which was nominally based on the correct end to crack an egg once soft boiled.

 

[MickeyisBeast]

Carolina Girls!
Best in the world!

 

[MickeyisBeast]

Carolina girls (carolina girls) best in the world (carolina girls)

you're so fine girl, you?re one of a kind sweet carolina girls

carolina girls (carolina girls) sweet southern pearls

you're sure enough tuff girl, i can't get enough of sweet carolina girls

i love the way you walk (walk that walk) i love the way you talk (talk that talk) you?re so fine girl you're one of a kind sweet carolina girls

california girls are sexy and new york girls are too

but carolina girls got good looks and sweet personality too

carolina girls (carolina girls) sweet southern pearls

you're so fine girl, you're one of a kind sweet carolina girls

you make me say wooo (carolina nothing finer) with the things you do

(carolina nothing finer) sweeter than candy hotter than heat more precious than diamonds girl you can?t be beat

(sax solo)

california girls are sexy and new york girls are too

but carolina girls got good looks and sweet personality too

carolina girls (carolina girls) sweet southern pearls

you're sure enough tuff girl, i can't get enough of sweet carolina girls

carolina girls (carolina girls) best in the world (carolina girls)

you're so fine girl, you're one of a kind sweet carolina girls

 

[AmandaSparks730]

Quite cold...and I don't know if I'm allowed to turn the heat on, parents are out bowling.

 

[MickeyisBeast]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgkO7XGUJyA

Sweeter than candy!
Hotter than heat!
More precious than diamonds!
Girl you can't be beat

 

[MickeyisBeast]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkhVL5ru6MM&feature=related

 

[MickeyisBeast]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPBwXKgDTdE

Taylor Swift is so pretty.
And I lover her voice

 

[DisneyRockstar]

so excited for tomorrow.

Club day & early release day.

Sounds very fun.

 

[AmandaSparks730]

Jake ------
A formidable cast of characters.
Jake Who Is Your Fan?
Find out who likes you the most!
#1: Meaghan ------
#2: Phil -------
#3: Brian -----
#4: Samantha Rose ------
#5: Caitlin ----
#6: Briana ------
#7: Ryan -----
#8: Maddison -----
#9: Sarah ------
#10: Amanda --------

Is it sad that I'm #1?

 

[AmandaSparks730]

Newfoundish is now a word.

 

[AmandaSparks730]

www.americangirl.com

 

[AmandaSparks730]

The Amanda Show is an American live-action sketch comedy and variety show that aired on Nickelodeon from November 6, 1999 to September 21, 2002. It starred Amanda Bynes, Drake Bell, and Nancy Sullivan, along with several performing artists who came and left at different points, such as John Kassir, Raquel Lee, and Josh Peck. The show was a spin-off from All That, in which Bynes co-starred years earlier. The show was unexpectedly cancelled in the end of 2002, according to creator Dan Schneider's blog.

 

[AmandaSparks730]

Recurring sketches
Commercials - At the beginning of each show (after the title sequence), an advertisement for an unusual product plays. Products include machines that make ice cream out of trash, popcorn popping pants, sumo soda, pass the skunk, lunchbay.com, super spitball machine, and a machine which multiplies pocket money. A disclaimer at the end of each sketch states that the product is "available nowhere. You can buy this and other phony products on the Amanda Show."

 

[AmandaSparks730]

Judge Trudy - This sketch is a parody of the real life courtroom show, Judge Judy. The sketch features a child plaintiff "suing" an adult defendant for petty incidents or even deserved punishments, such as a grounding or an after-school detention given. Where as the child will have done something deserving of far worse punishment such as painting the White house or stealing a space shuttle. The defendant typically complains that Trudy is too young to be a judge, which angers Trudy even more. No matter how obvious it is that the child is guilty Trudy always finds in favor of them and delivers ridiculous sentences to the adults, such as trapping parents in a rocket and sending them to space or awarding the children millions of dollars. The sketch almost always involves two cases and at the end of each sketch, the Judge calls for the Dancing Lobsters to come out. The lobsters then proceed to dance with Trudy. The sketch is similar to Judge Judy: both judges wear dainty lace collars, both have African American bailiffs; and both insult the defendants. The only difference is that Trudy treats defendants like criminals, while Judy, like most TV court judges, deals with small claims cases. Judge Trudy is played by Amanda Bynes.

 

[AmandaSparks730]

Blockblister - A parody of video rental store chain Blockbuster. Blockblister is owned and operated by a family of foreigners (Gnocchi, the father; Blini, the daughter; Biscotti, the son) who often find themselves facing dissatisfied customers due to the poor quality of the videos rented - which are in fact homemade spoofs of the actual movie requested. The customer who attempts to rent Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, George of the Jungle, The Nutty Professor, The Wizard of Oz, Austin Powers, Scream, Star Trek, The Brady Bunch, Titanic, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, X-Men, Stuart Little, Snow Day or Tom Sawyer, usually receives Face Ventura: Pet Detective, George from the Jungle, The Nubby Professor, Tidanic, The Wizard of Voz, Austin Powders, Screamings, Star Drek, The Brady Brunch, The Vantom Menace, F-Men, Stuart Lipple, Snowy Day or Tom Zawyer. Each spoof features the family in poorly made costumes, attempting to act out the movie over a few minutes, usually producing a poor imitation of the original. After arguing over the quality of the movie, the family either offers the customer an egg or inquires about payment, generating an adverse reaction from the customer. After the customer leaves - still dissatisfied - (two customers per sketch) the family dances to polka music while holding eggs, concluding the sketch. In one sketch, the family demonstrates the use of a DVP, their country's version of a DVD which is an LP-sized round block of wood played in a loud wooden machine powered by a gasoline engine which is started by pulling a cord; the machine plays the video of the movie Mission: Impossible with visual interference and a rattling noise so loud no one can hear the movie.