The vacuum, the plumber and the turtle

The classroom affords me MANY opportunities for punishments!

While doing a unit on song lyrics with Year 10, two well meaning emo girls were pestering me to listen to a song by My Chemical Romance on their i-pod. And I would rather stab my own eyes out with a pen than willingly listen to MCR... so I told them I had already heard the song.

"How have YOU heard it??!?" they demanded in a most acusatory-you-don't-understand-youth-culture kind of way.

"I don't live in a vacuum, you know!" was my response.

"I lived in a vacuum!" interjected the overly vocal Boy From The Front Row (who loves the sound of his own voice very much. I hear he and the sound of his own voice are planning to elope soon).

"That would suck!"

Nobody laughed. Except for me. I laughed. Loudly. And hard. They all groaned. Which I found even more delightful!

The same class, a few weeks later (this week, in fact), and we are now looking at the media. We were discussing who reads the SMH and who reads the DT. And so of course we talked about plumbers.

The Lippy Cool Kid With An Opinion On Everthing piped up.
"You shouldn't become a plumber. Unless you have your own business. Otherwise you don't earn nearly enough money. It's a shit job"

Now usually I don't stand for bad language in my class (which of course is the biggest joke of all, what with me being the original potty mouth sailor girl), but I couldn't help cracking up laughing at this unintended pun.

But nobody else in the class got it. Not straight away, anyway. Even the punk who spoke it had to have it explained to him.

And what's more, I used it as a part of my lesson in Year 11 and gave a chocolate reward to the person who identified it as a technique!!

This weekend, I had Karms to stay (which was just so lovely!!) and we were discussing her boyfriend and his pun-loving girlfriend, Michelle.

They went to an Animal dress up party, (it was her idea) with him piggy-backing her in, and when someone asked what their costume was, he said "I'm a turtle. And this is me shell!"