Comments on: Facts I remember from Elementary School

By: Ari

Ari — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:32:50 +0000

They do?

By: William

William — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:39:49 +0000

My Very Excited Mother Just Showed Us Nude Yummy!

By: 42

42 — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 21:47:46 +0000

and don’t foget “colmbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492″

By: anonymous

anonymous — Mon, 18 May 2009 04:24:53 +0000

My Very Educated Mother Just Said “Uh-oh! No Pluto”

By: Blorkus

Blorkus — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:19:48 +0000

and gross. and in a burger…

By: Will

Will — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:17:49 +0000

heehee i am a decendant of eli whitney

By: Will

Will — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:13:38 +0000

Did you know? I’m a decendant of eli whitney

By: myself

myself — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:04:13 +0000

Hah, I laughed.

By: Brett

Brett — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 05:57:45 +0000

I can’t believe how nobody’s bothered to mention that this graph doesn’t make any sense… That Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin is one fact, and in “Other” there are presumably multiple facts, so how is it that that one fact takes up 99% of the chart? It would have been better as a bar graph with a vertical axis representing “Percentage of students who remember this fact from grade school” or something…

By: n8

n8 — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 06:46:29 +0000

don’t forget the pilgrims, columbus, there more too, but i forget xD

By: Addict

Addict — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 07:40:11 +0000

My Very Easy Memory Jingle Seems Useful Naming Planets.

Again though, poor Pluto was demoted. Fail.

By: Starfevre

Starfevre — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:37:50 +0000

me too! I went to the elementary school named after him.

By: amy

amy — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:36:29 +0000

OMG! Uncle Remus! Love it!

By: Levi F.

Levi F. — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:49:56 +0000

NERDING.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:23:30 +0000

I never learned the hand trick for multiplication. Or about Eli Whitney.

The first thing I thought of with this graph was “In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue”. ANd of course “I before E, except after C”.

By: DJ

DJ — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:00:52 +0000

“We need to talk about your TPS Reports… that’d be great.”

My mom always made us do Anti-Pilgrim things for class when I was in Elementary School because we’re Mohawks and she hated the “white men.” I also learned that Columbus was a d-bag. I had an odd childhood, but I loved it.

I remember, from school though, that trick on your hands for the Multiplication Table for 9… this doesn’t work for all numbers… which is why I ended up failing at math for life.

By: Will

Will — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:17:14 +0000

You must have grown up in the Cheshire/Hamden Connecticut area.

Eli Whitney is God here, I think 75% of elementary school is about him.

By: Metallian

Metallian — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:54:27 +0000

::Digs moat around 3 sides of house and fills it:: Peninsula!

By: amelia

amelia — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:32:29 +0000

This is literally the only thing I remember from US History.
and that I should eventually get around to reading Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

By: ladyrazzle

ladyrazzle — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:42:57 +0000

My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets.

Oh, the irony.

By: TychaBrahe

TychaBrahe — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:58:02 +0000

I can’t believe no one’s mentioned that a peninsula is a piece of land surrounded by water on three sides.

By: Turk

Turk — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:26:41 +0000

Leif Ericson!
Rawr, year I immediately thought of 1492 and Columbus, too. Although we did seem to spend a lot of time on the Civil War in elementary school.

By: panda

panda — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:31:14 +0000

Hat is pretty weird. And so is how you spell your name.

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:06:48 +0000

LOL-now I won’t forget it either

By: alex

alex — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:01:08 +0000

i’m pretty sure laura knows that. hence her comment.

By: sarah

sarah — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:15:46 +0000

There’s an Israeli instructor at my university who pronounces “Eli” as “ellie”.

By: sarah

sarah — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:14:38 +0000

Oh my gosh, I totally remember this — I thought it was just a Georgia History thing. In fourth grade, we literally chorused this over and over several times a week for a number of weeks. Also, the only black man in 50-year-old Georgia history textbook was Uncle Remus.

My history prof-father had a field day explaining to me that a) there are other important black people and b) Eli Whitney is really famous for interchangeable parts (as has been previously mentioned). [also c) I'm sorry we have to live in a backwater Georgia town]

By: ClickClick

ClickClick — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:29:28 +0000

Not totally correct, wimple, but points for bringing George Washinton Carver into the discussion.
p.s. I don’t think I’ve lol this hard at a comments section in a while! They’re all wins!

By: ClickClick

ClickClick — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:20:52 +0000

Hey, hey there! That’s CLASSIFIED INFORMATION!

By: Glen

Glen — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 05:19:46 +0000

Yeah, that was my first thought too. Go Stupendous Man!

By: billy

billy — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:29:34 +0000

HAHAHA this is sooo true for me as well… i thought i was the only one. I wonder why this seems to be the case….

By: eli

eli — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:17:25 +0000

If everybody remembers Eli Whitney, then how come everybody pronounces my name “Ellie”?

By: lolbukkit

lolbukkit — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:56:13 +0000

It’s a CUP with dirt IN it.

By: wimple

wimple — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:02:08 +0000

And George Washington Carver invented the peanut.

By: withonebreath

withonebreath — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:48:04 +0000

haha, i remember that, too.

i also remember that George Washington was *so honest* that he couldn’t lie about chopping down the cherry tree …

too bad THAT was just propaganda.

By: robynnn

robynnn — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:42:50 +0000

THAT IS SO TRUE!!!! that’s bizarre that i’m not the only one who pulls that fact out of my ass on random occasions to prove my intelligence!

By: Matrix

Matrix — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:19:51 +0000

Too bad Columbus did not discover it… there were Native Americans living here already for thousands of years… even the Vikings beat him here by hundreds of years. And there are even some who think that Egyptians and Romans had known about these people and traded… maybe. But there needs to be more research done to prove such a connection.

By: Alaina

Alaina — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:40:22 +0000

You my friend are badass

By: lmaonaise

lmaonaise — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:13:44 +0000

Thanks! I call it “Cup of Dirt”.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:01:36 +0000

There are two that I remember. Eli Whitney and his cotton gin, and Robert Fulton invented the steamboat!

By: Nonny

Nonny — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:53:35 +0000

Yeah, the title of the graph made me immediately think “In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” At least that part’s true…

By: grossenburger

grossenburger — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 06:04:13 +0000

Indeed she did. Yummy. And yes, she was eager.

By: Ophelia

Ophelia — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:29:15 +0000

I’m from the same bite-sized town in MA as Eli Whitney. I thought we were the only ones who had that one (flawed) fact drilled into us. Apparently not…

By: retro thoughts

retro thoughts — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 03:01:56 +0000

i remember that if you paid Jim a nickel, he would eat a bug.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:54:31 +0000

wow, you’re breaking new ground there, copernicus.

brian regan WIN

By: Sprite101

Sprite101 — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:49:09 +0000

Calvin and Hobbes is teh r0×0rz!!

By: greg

greg — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:35:39 +0000

Yawn

By: barakku

barakku — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:16:32 +0000

My Very Egar Mother Just Served Us Nude!

By: kayosity

kayosity — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:13:21 +0000

I remember that if the sun was the size of a large beach ball and located in the classroom then the earth would be the size of a ping pong ball and would be located in the parking lot… haha

By: Channie

Channie — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:04:50 +0000

Ya know, I was about to say that. I actually know a descendent of the dude who sold the cotton gin to good ol’ Eli.

Another one of her ancestors somehow got in charge of an eighth of the Confederate Army, and basically lost the Civil War.

My friend has a very interesting family tree.