School house rock....That was some cool stuff.

What were your favorite ones?

I am just a Bill

Conjunction Conjunction

Lolly,Lolly,Lolly get your adverbs here...

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Remember it? hell thats the only way I passed english, because I learned it on TV. That shit was great. Too bad it didnt stick with me. when the kids want help with their homework they get the standard answer "go ask your mother"

"I unpacked my adjectives"

Tossup between that and the "I am only a Bill"

FFZ

Conjunction Junction...
what's your function?

Jewbroni~

Picking up phrases, and clauses, and somethingoranother....

anyone remember this one?
"It was a shot heard round the world,....Start of a revolution"

...provide for the common defense, secure the blessings of liberty, for ourselves and our posterity. We do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America...
[smoke]
I was amazed how much I remember.
I bought the tapes for my nieces and nephew.

Now the kids learn from freakin POKEMON!!!!

Yes, I remember......
[url]http://www.schoolhouserock.com/[/url]

heh they still have school house rock well at least on tape

Im just a bill sitting here on capital hill

Make sure and get them a Dr. Suess book called [u]Oh, The Places You'll Go[/u] too.

[url]http://members.tripod.com/~TechBabe/places.html[/url]

I got them all on CD (audio and video) for my daughter several years ago. She still loves them.

I liked Shot Heard Round the World

Take your powder, take your gun,
report to General Washington
hurry men there's not an hour to lose.

I downloaded nearly all of them from Napster.

Don’t even get me started on that.

I swear they warped my little mind with that rhyme.
It pops into my head at the most unusual times.

“Conjunction Junction...what's your function?”

Hell, I can’t get that phrase out of my mind and it’s been twenty plus years!
The worst part, I haven’t a clue what the a conjunction is. [%|]

hankerin for a hunk of cheese!

"The British are coming! The British are coming!"

Now, the ride of Paul Revere
Set the nation on its ear,
And the shot at Lexington heard 'round the world,
When the British fired in the early dawn
The War of Independence had begun,
The die was cast, the rebel flag unfurled.

And on to Concord marched the foe
[i][b]To seize the arsenal there you know,[/i][/b]
Waking folks searching all around
Till our militia stopped them in their tracks,
At the old North Bridge we turned them back
And chased those Redcoats back to Boston town.

And the shot heard 'round the world
Was the start of the Revolution.
The Minute Men were ready, on the move.
Take your powder, and take your gun.
Report to General Washington.
Hurry men, there's not an hour to lose!

Now, at famous Bunker Hill,
Even though we lost, it was quite a thrill,
The rebel Colonel Prescott proved he was wise;
Outnumbered and low on ammunition
As the British stormed his position
He said, "Hold your fire till you see the whites of their eyes!"

Though the next few years were rough,
General Washington's men proved they were tough,
Those hungry, ragged boys would not be beat.
One night they crossed the Delaware,
Surprised the Hessians in their lair,
And at Valley Forge they just bundled up their feet!

And the shot heard 'round the world
Was the start of the Revolution.
The Minute Men were ready, on the move.
Take your blanket, and take your son.
Report to General Washington.
We've got our rights and now it's time to prove.

Well, they showed such determination
That they won the admiration
Of countries across the sea like France and Spain,
Who loaned the colonies ships and guns
And put the British on the run
And the Continental Army on its feet again.

And though they lost some battles too,
The Americans swore they'd see it through,
Their raiding parties kept up, hit and run.
At Yorktown the British could not retreat,
Bottled up by Washington and the French Fleet,
Cornwallis surrendered and finally we had won!

The winner!

Hurray!

From the shot heard 'round the world
To the end of the Revolution
The continental rabble took the day
And the father of our country
Beat the British there at Yorktown
And brought freedom to you and me and the U.S.A.!

God bless America, Let Freedom Ring!

Remeber it, hell I bought the CD of bands doing covers of the School House Rock songs about 4 years ago.  You haven't lived until you have heard Blind Melon do a cover of Magic Number.

Man, can you imagine any major TV station today that ould allow this, my favorite SHR song, to air on their PC station?

Gasp! No!  It's non-revisionist history, and rebellion against a oppressive, centralized, autocratic and tax-mad government.

Can't have any of that...not PC, and not the sort of thing we want to teach kids-not by any means.

I also loved "Lucky 7 Samson" and "The Constitution" songs.

Juggernaut[%(]

All those songs can be found on Napster.

I'm just a Bill, sitin here on Capital Hill...

Interplanet Janet, she's a galaxy girl....

The only way I remember the preamble to the Constitution is by reciting that song in my mind. I actually impressed a college professor once who bet the class that no one could remember it. Ha, was he shocked.
Amazing how some things from your youth stick with you thru your life.
Whoever came up with that idea for TV: Thanks.

I believe I used it in a post a couple of weeks ago in a post about runaway trains [url]
http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?id=22666[/url]