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-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Goodman <kgoodman who-is-at u.arizona.edu>
To: xmca who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Date: Friday, December 18, 1998 6:45 PM
Subject: Re: Worry, worry . . . about the right problem!!
>Many years ago, while still a grad student at UCla a wrote a
parody to
>John Henry in which JH was not a "steel driving man but a
teacher
>engaged in a contest with a teaching machine brought in to
replace him.
>He loses the competition but dies trying. Here are the final
two verses:
>
>They buried John Henry on the school yard,
>Which is not the usual case,
>but the board of education thought it would be nice
>to have at least one teacher round the place.
>
>Yes they buried John Henry on the playground.
>but his grave cannot be seen,
>because instead of a stone to mark his final resting place,
>They put a baseball coaching machine.
>Poor John's underneath that infernal machine.
>--
>Kenneth S. Goodman, Professor, Language, Reading & Culture
>504 College of Education, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
> fax 520 7456895 phone 520 6217868
>
>These are mean times- and in the mean time
>We need to Learn to Live Under Water
>