If you’re going to call Thanksgiving, “Turkey Day,” you might as well call Christmas, “Tree Day” (or “Highly Decorated Tree Day”). For that matter, you might as well call Easter, “Colorful Egg Day” and Independence Day, “Firecracker Day.” Then, we should call Halloween, “Pumpkin Day” and Veterans’ Day, well, Veterans’ Day.

If it’s all about the main course, let’s create some new holidays. How about Pizza Day, Chicken Day, and Pot Roast Day? 

A student of mine posted the poem and link on my school’s moodle, and I had to pass this on to any of my readers (all two of you; thanks mom and wife!). It shows the dangers of relying too heavily on technology to do our work.

Spell Checker

I halve a spelling checker,
It came with my pea see.
It plainly marks four my revue
Mistakes I dew knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait aweigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the era rite
Its rarely ever wrong.

I’ve scent this massage threw it,
And I’m shore your pleased too no
Its letter prefect in every weigh;
My checker tolled me sew.