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[C.M.]

I had a group of hyper, over-active, wired-up middle school boys last night. It was the evening before a long weekend out here. Studying english was far, so very very far, from their minds. Suddenly a moth (nay, opportunity!) flew into the room. "One point" I declared, "to the first one who kills it!" This instantly set off a combustible stampede....no fewer than 8 middle school boys, their white shirts stained with the drippings and dribblings of breakfast, lunch and dinner, leaped on top of their desks and chairs; those unfortunate enough not to gain high ground, jumped crazily up and down swinging their copies of FUN WITH ENGLISH; all the lads were screaming, some falling over one another. One of their mates provided the soundtrack with his horrible, grating laugh which added a kind of surreal quality to the whole thing. It ended when 4 of the boys collapsed on top of one another in a heap in the back of the room....a breathless, grim yet proud �� �� held up his text book and displayed to all the now flattened moth. I don't let them off the leash all that often; but last night was priceless.

[SPINOZA]

Almost the exact same happened to me last summer, except a wasp was the recipient of DEATH BY MIDDLE SCHOOLER (and it was a girl who murdered him as well!). Got some vocab in to them too after the chaos - dead, has died, death, crush, splatter, insides, gore, murder, blood and guts - so it wasn't without use.

[C.M.]

I would say last night was pretty useless. Fun. But useless.

[nautilus]

I wonder what would happen in a Korean emergency room, intensive care ward, parliament, etc if a single fly got through security. Surely North korea should simply be mass producing flies rather than pursuing nuclear weapons?

[riley]

You have to have days where you just throw the lesson out once in awhile. Everyone needs that chance.