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01/22/10

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Categories: ...and Takes On, America

Taking a Shot at Humor

I'm currently taking a graduate course for my GT endorsement (gifted and talented). One of the things we briefly talked about today is that an advanced sense of humor is a sign of giftedness. That reminded me of something AC/DC said this week.

We were comparing two poems in class. They were titled "Rebound" and "Foul Shot."

"So what do you think these poems are about?" I asked the class, before reading the poems.

Most of the students guessed that it was about basketball, but I could see AC/DC thinking. He poked his finger in the air and said, "Shooting a chicken!"

I couldn't stop laughing.

Nobody else in the class got it.

An American educator moves moved to Korea, presumably to teach English. Instead she discovers discovered that learning Korean one taekwondo class at a time is was a more captivating activity.

Somewhere along the way, she met a Good Man, fell in love, and ended up back in the States. Still doing taekwondo, still learning Korean...

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