Thursday, October 26, 2006

Conversation with Michael

[The title pretty much gives most of the background you should require to appreciate this snippet of conversation, but if didn't guess, Sisi and Michael are both students I had in one of my SAT classes this summer. Sisi had just asked me for help with her English homework.]

Tomato JT: hi
w0bzzy: hiya
Tomato JT: interesting new pix on myspace
w0bzzy: haha. ty ty [for the uninitiated, this stands for "thank you, thank you."]
Tomato JT: sisi is asking for hwk help again.
w0bzzy: she wanted me to help her.
w0bzzy: i refered her to you :-)
Tomato JT: she asked me to make a sentence using "baseness." "Although we knew Todd was crude, we were shocked at the baseness he displayed by mooning the crowd at his mother's funeral."
Tomato JT: i thought it was funny, yet disturbing
Tomato JT: a fun blend of crude, amusing, and eccentic is how i would describe that sentence.
Tomato JT: i also made another suggestion, which i liked less:
Tomato JT: "Sharon's family opposed the marriage, because of the baseness of her fiance's character"
Tomato JT: so YOU'RE the one who pawned sisi off onto me...
Tomato JT: now i know that whenever she needed help, it was your fault
w0bzzy: yeah..well
w0bzzy: its the kind of stuff you're really good at
w0bzzy: lol
Tomato JT: hahaha. what, making disturbing, funny sentences using vocab??
Tomato JT: ok, sisi has a functional vocabulary of like 100 words...
Tomato JT: i think she is not capable of producing the quality work i am offering her.
w0bzzy: 12 which are vulgar..
w0bzzy: lol
Tomato JT: dont you think her teacher will be onto her??
w0bzzy: you need to "dumb it down"
Tomato JT: LOL. you're funny: "12 of which are vulgar"
w0bzzy: i'm hilarious :-)
Tomato JT: hilarious
Tomato JT: are ARE.
Tomato JT: not always
Tomato JT: but often.

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