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Premium Member A Colleague Recommended I Read Machiavelli's 'The Prince' To Help Me Discipline My Class

One of the teaching standards
Is 
Behaviour Management
&
Motivating & Engaging
Students

Classroom
Manage-
Ment
Putting
The Italian diplomat's 
Timeless wisdom on full display
Written after a night
At the pub
This EVERSELLER

After three weeks
Of employing Machiavellianism
In the classroom
We checked student feedback

"We won't put up with arrogant teachers."
"He's a jerk."

This behaviour management strategy
Has now been 
Swiftly abandoned

Premium Member About that gator recommended by a New Orleans waiter

Said a handsome New Orleans waiter,
"Sir, can I recommend some freshly caught gator?"
I said, "Are you for real?
Didn’t you hear about that poor woman Lucille?"
"But Sir, what if I can assure you ~ this ain't the gator that ate her?"
© Rio Jansen  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member The Scent of Water Not Recommended For Competition

While driving along, just after Mass
Father McGee drove a bit fast
But the person he passed, at eighty two
Was Sergeant O'Mally all dressed in blue
The Father pull over and it didn't take long
To see the cops cruiser with all it's lights on
McGee rolled his window, down ready to talk
As O'Mally got out and cautiously walked

When O'Mally leaned down to question McGee
He smelled something wrong, poked his head into see
"Have you been drinking" the Cop entertained
"Only water, that's Holy, McGee did explain
Then both looking down, what lie on the floor, 
An empty wine bottle, there two, maybe more
"WATER" replied The Cop with a grin
McGee then declared, "Christ's done it Again"


Premium Member Why Do You Think I Recommended Him to You

Shep was a slug-a-bug, a sluggard, a sloth
A do-little, do-nothing, man of the cloth
He cancelled more sermons than he ever wrote
This lazy lay-about did not fool this old goat.
He was a goldbricker at my church too said Lou.
Why do you think I recommended him to you?

The Understudy

When They Were Reversed                                                           Leitmotif Seria
---------------------------------                                                 -------------------------
By:Contralto Mezzo                                                                    By: Castrato Bel Canto
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              I told a friend                                                                A standard set up
  and she confirmed the same                                                  the reverse can lead to
 it's that part of love and loving                                                         confusion
          that no seems to say                                               when the arrangement is swapped
             a situation where                                                          thus is non-traditional in 
when this arrangement is swapped                                                 A standard order   
                                                                                              To those accustom to a certain
                                                                                                      way of doing things
                                                                                                         it can be a difficult
                                                                                                             adaptation

             to be ruined, defeated,or outwitted,
                through trickery or deception
         cheated or swindled out of something
                    cursed cause I failed to win
                    polite and less informal
                  won't go that route again
       exhausted exploration of something else
               "euchred" if they fail to win
         the number of tricks they promised
                    tired in the literal sense
                the general sense in meaning
                  use of the word to express
                 the way this man is feeling

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