Things you have learned from Odyssey
random things
- EvangelineWalker
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Things you have learned from Odyssey
I don't mean life lessons (though those are good of course but random facts etc that you didn't know before. I grew up with AIO so I spent a lot of hours listening to it, and so it obviously affected me, as it has probably affected many of you.
For me, personally, things like this:
Words Eugene said that I looked up, e.g. 'maladroit' (and many others I'm sure that I can't think of right now)
I think it's the first time I heard the word "adolescence" though I thought it was 'adda-lessons'. (I was a little kid, remember)
In the Triangle, Whit (I believe) mentioned he'd read The Man Who was Thursday by GK Chesterton. It inspired me to get the book from the library and read it. If Whit read it, it has to be good.
"What direction do you turn the key?" -"Away from us!"
Many others that I can't think of right now.
What about you?
For me, personally, things like this:
Words Eugene said that I looked up, e.g. 'maladroit' (and many others I'm sure that I can't think of right now)
I think it's the first time I heard the word "adolescence" though I thought it was 'adda-lessons'. (I was a little kid, remember)
In the Triangle, Whit (I believe) mentioned he'd read The Man Who was Thursday by GK Chesterton. It inspired me to get the book from the library and read it. If Whit read it, it has to be good.
"What direction do you turn the key?" -"Away from us!"
Many others that I can't think of right now.
What about you?
- Wooton Z. Bassett
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Things I learnt from Odyssey. Hmm......well, on the Soda Shop, Aaron Wiley, Ben C., and I were having an album 25 marathon. We heard Dr. Blackgaard say the word machismo, I googled it, and found out how to spell it. Then, a little more than half a year later, it was the spelling word that helped me get to the sub finals of the spelling bee!
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- Leonard Meltsner
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I've learned just about everything I know from the Magic School Bus or Odyssey. AIO knowledge includes most of the Bible, history, how to drive standard, what tenure is, and dicotyledonous plants. (And many others)
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It was the exact same with me! I had never heard the word before "Coming of Age," and for the longest time, I thought it was pronounced "add-a-lessons." So I thought Whit was going to be teaching Jimmy every day, each time "adding a lesson" or something. xDI think it's the first time I heard the word "adolescence" though I thought it was 'adda-lessons'. (I was a little kid, remember)
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Dónde está el baño?
Do I even need to explain?
Do I even need to explain?
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- EvangelineWalker
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Ah, yes. Me too. The first Spanish I ever learned!American Eagle wrote:Dónde está el baño?
Do I even need to explain?
"Aqui! Aqui!" - I thought he was saying 'a key' -just like Eugene.
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A squared + B squared = C squared. It has nothing to do with tea squares.
Infrared signals can't go through walls.
Prepositions are not words you should end sentences with.
A hypotenuse is not used to catch large animals in Africa.
One should not look at the spam in one's brother's eye when one has a hog in one's own.
An angel only told Peter not to give his horse to a Gentile in the movie version.
Prestidigitation does not have a "c".
Being a girl naturally means you know everything there is to know about boys and girls.
"Credit card" does not equal "one-way ticket to being a spendthrift".
Every modem should have a self-destruct feature.
When a guy is going to pick you up, it's officially a date.
Infrared signals can't go through walls.
Prepositions are not words you should end sentences with.
A hypotenuse is not used to catch large animals in Africa.
One should not look at the spam in one's brother's eye when one has a hog in one's own.
An angel only told Peter not to give his horse to a Gentile in the movie version.
Prestidigitation does not have a "c".
Being a girl naturally means you know everything there is to know about boys and girls.
"Credit card" does not equal "one-way ticket to being a spendthrift".
Every modem should have a self-destruct feature.
When a guy is going to pick you up, it's officially a date.
"Death's got an Invisibility Cloak?" "So he can sneak up on people. Sometimes he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking..."
"And now the spinning. Thank you for nothing, you useless reptile."
"It unscrews the other way."
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- Leonard Meltsner
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Oh yeah, I learned that President Garfield proved the Pythagorean Theorem using a trapezoid.
(And it's a pretty clever proof).
I was also mentally pinged by Trent in that episode to consider whether the Cosine Law was indeed only a generalization of the Pythagorean Theorem.
(And it's a pretty clever proof).
I was also mentally pinged by Trent in that episode to consider whether the Cosine Law was indeed only a generalization of the Pythagorean Theorem.
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Ah, I knew I was forgetting something.Leonard Meltsner wrote:Oh yeah, I learned that President Garfield proved the Pythagorean Theorem using a trapezoid.
(And it's a pretty clever proof).
And is it?Leonard Meltsner wrote:I was also mentally pinged by Trent in that episode to consider whether the Cosine Law was indeed only a generalization of the Pythagorean Theorem.
Quote tags fixed. -snubs
"Death's got an Invisibility Cloak?" "So he can sneak up on people. Sometimes he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking..."
"And now the spinning. Thank you for nothing, you useless reptile."
"It unscrews the other way."
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I wouldn't presume to say one way or the other, but I consider it an interesting view, and I can certainly see why one would think that.Ginny Weasley wrote:Ah, I knew I was forgetting something.Leonard Meltsner wrote:Oh yeah, I learned that President Garfield proved the Pythagorean Theorem using a trapezoid.
(And it's a pretty clever proof).
And is it?Leonard Meltsner wrote:I was also mentally pinged by Trent in that episode to consider whether the Cosine Law was indeed only a generalization of the Pythagorean Theorem.
Quote tags fixed. -snubs
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Which episode was that in again?Leonard Meltsner wrote:Oh yeah, I learned that President Garfield proved the Pythagorean Theorem using a trapezoid.
(And it's a pretty clever proof).
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"The Invisible Dog".
"Death's got an Invisibility Cloak?" "So he can sneak up on people. Sometimes he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking..."
"And now the spinning. Thank you for nothing, you useless reptile."
"It unscrews the other way."
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Nice topic. =]
From Odyssey I learned a lot of my biblical history, history behind certain holidays, and history in general, most of my vocabulary, what pork rinds are, what agape means...and how you say it, a bunch of corny jokes, how to spell "chocolate," and pretty much everything else that was said above. =p
That's cool, Wooton. =pWooton Z. Bassett wrote:Things I learnt from Odyssey. Hmm......well, on the Soda Shop, Aaron Wiley, Ben C., and I were having an album 25 marathon. We heard Dr. Blackgaard say the word machismo, I googled it, and found out how to spell it. Then, a little more than half a year later, it was the spelling word that helped me get to the sub finals of the spelling bee!
From Odyssey I learned a lot of my biblical history, history behind certain holidays, and history in general, most of my vocabulary, what pork rinds are, what agape means...and how you say it, a bunch of corny jokes, how to spell "chocolate," and pretty much everything else that was said above. =p
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- Mrs Jason Whittaker
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What a great topic! I happen to have a list on this very subject. To clarify: these are facts I did not know before hearing on AIO.
- Things I Learned from Adventures in Odyssey First
Othello is a play by Shakespeare and someone dies in it. -Do, for a Change
"Donde esta el bano?" -The Cross of Cortes
A duck's quack is the only farm animal noise that doesn't echo -Blood, Sweat, and Fears
A duck's quack does echo. -The Green Ring Conspiracy
Golf never stood for "Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden." (sidenote: I know golfers who still think this myth is true) -The Green Ring Conspiracy
Goats have rectangular pupils. -Blood, Sweat, and Fears
You can milk a giraffe -Blood, Sweat, and Fears
The Q document is a 5th gospel which may have existed and may have been the source material Matthew, Mark, and Luke refer to when writing their gospels. -The Search for Whit
AFIS stands for Automated Fingerprint Identification System -The Perfect Witness
Tenure is job security for professors. -The Perfect Witness
Scruples are...you know, I still don't know what scruples are. But AIO taught me that they exist and they have something to do with making tough decisions. -Have You no Selpurcs?
Procrastination is a fancy word for plain old laziness. -Isaac the Procrastinator
"Your days, at the most, cannot be long. It would be best to use them for the glory of God and the benefit of your generation."
-William Booth
-William Booth
Oh! and pigs don't sweat.
snubs is not dumb as he really is very smart. — Bmuntz
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- EvangelineWalker
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Great list Mrs Jason Whittaker!
I also first learned some of my Shakespeare from Odyssey:
"As Marcellus says in Act one Scene four of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, 'Something is rotten in the state of Denmark'." - Eugene in "Final Conflict" (I think)
"O, I die, Horatio! The potent poison quite o'ercrows my spirit.
I cannot live to hear the news from England, but I do prophesy th' election lights on Fortinbras. He has my dying voice. So tell him, with th' occurrents, more and less, which have solicited- the rest is silence."-Edwin Blackgaard, Welcome Home Mr Blackgaard. (I did not understand it at all when I first heard it and some of the words I thought were different, like Fortinbras- "Fortin's brows' )
"To be or not to be. That is the question. Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune...." (don't remember which one it's from, but I hear it in Edwin Blackgaard's voice, so it must've been from Odyssey. )
I also first learned some of my Shakespeare from Odyssey:
"As Marcellus says in Act one Scene four of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, 'Something is rotten in the state of Denmark'." - Eugene in "Final Conflict" (I think)
"O, I die, Horatio! The potent poison quite o'ercrows my spirit.
I cannot live to hear the news from England, but I do prophesy th' election lights on Fortinbras. He has my dying voice. So tell him, with th' occurrents, more and less, which have solicited- the rest is silence."-Edwin Blackgaard, Welcome Home Mr Blackgaard. (I did not understand it at all when I first heard it and some of the words I thought were different, like Fortinbras- "Fortin's brows' )
"To be or not to be. That is the question. Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune...." (don't remember which one it's from, but I hear it in Edwin Blackgaard's voice, so it must've been from Odyssey. )
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That is quoted by both Edwin and Malcolm Lear in The Taming of the Two.EvangelineWalker wrote:"To be or not to be. That is the question. Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune...." (don't remember which one it's from, but I hear it in Edwin Blackgaard's voice, so it must've been from Odyssey. )
Ah, all the cultural education we get from Adventures in Odyssey! I wasn't even thinking of that when I made my list.
Two more facts I just remembered:
Goldfish do not have eyelids. -Sunset Bowlawater
Thunderstorms don't usually happen in the middle of winter. -And When You Pray
Growing up in a Christian family with a minister for a father, I've been familiar with most of the Bible since before I could talk. However, there was one Bible story I heard first on AIO--Jepthah's Vow.
**One more AIO fact I almost forgot to mention: I learned the Hebrew word for curse: 'arar
I took Hebrew in college and one day I was reviewing vocabulary and came across this word. Suddenly I heard Connie's and Eugene's voices in my head: "This is your basic, everyday, run-of-the-mill curse, where, if it happens, somebody gets hurt. In this case, Whit." "It's an 'arar." (The Curse)
"Your days, at the most, cannot be long. It would be best to use them for the glory of God and the benefit of your generation."
-William Booth
-William Booth