Who'll Stop The Rain....

Hello bloggeronies and assorted wormslime..what is a happening? Well i recieved my first mark back for my course, Education 4683- Linguistics for Teachers...a drumroll please...boom boom boom Sir Robert Hawley made 86% on his first assignment!!!!!! Ok ok i know its an A- but cmon this is good..plus it was also a good 20% of my term so all is well...right now i am still doing chapter four which is on mophology which is the study of word formation. In other words, morphology is to words what syntax is to sentences. Morphology is concerned with the structures of words just like syntax is concerned with the structures of sentences.

Something i did find interesting about mophology and morphemes is that it can also be quite difficult for a speaker to distinguish between the history of a word and its structure in the minds of everyday speakers. For example the word hamburger is derived from Hamburg which is a city in Germany. New speakers see Hamburger as something like ham+ burger= hot patty served on a round bun. Burger can be combined with any substance that can be eaten for example a cheeseburger, a veggieburger etc. Ham + burger is psychologically real for most present day speakers of American English.
Robb's note...what else is pyschologically real is the Forklift Burger from the Turkey Burger in Cookesville...does anyone else know if they are going to be closed for the season like the Turkey Burger used to be? Just a thought..



I see that the NHL Oldtimers are coming back to Halifax to the Metro Centre on Feb 1st, that is a Tuesday so since i will have full time hrs around that time i will see what i can do about getting up for the game. I mentioned to Rick Middleton when he was in town for the opening of the Appledome that they would be better off coming to a place like the new Appledome because i think the smaller crowds would be much more appreciative of seeing some hockey heroes than the almost empty Halifax Forum was when the Bruins oldtimers were in town earlier this year. Of course i won't be making a trip to the Appledome till Feb when WK plays CK...nothing against CK but i have no attachment to CK..didn't go there so i have no reason to attend any of their games...

Of course because of last weeks defeat at the hands of SMU, the Axemen have to travel to Mount A tomorrow to play the Mounties in the first playoff game held in Sackville (Or Bagtown as it was referred to on CHMA..) in some twelve years or so...the Axemen better have their gameface on after finishing 4-4 on the season..the Mounties are going to come out flying.. i will not be travelling to the game, i shall be in the Dungeon and watching the proceedings on Eastlink.. then later on Saturday evening i shall be travelling to WolfVegas to watch the hockey Axemen take on St Thomas at 7...the hockey Axemen are 2-4 so far this season and i hope they can get back on track...plus i still think its cool that my buddy Kev is playing old school tunes like Iron Maiden's Number of the Beast and Black Sabbath's NIB...

Heart is coming to Halifax around Feb as well... i didn't know they were still together but i think my Heart's Greatest Hits Live is still in that giant box of tapes that i gave Tash a few yrs ago... damn there was some good stuff in that box...plus that was the only Heart cassette that i ever owned...i think i bought it at the ol Tracks and Paperbacks...cannot remember now...

Damn Burger King's Pizza Burger is only available in New York City...damn i be getting me one of these things..looks HUGE..Double Down eat yer heart out!!!

Borrowed this one off a friend on Facebook..
Good ol WWE...
Money lost on restaurant in Manhattan- $35,557,000.00

Money lost on creating XFL football league- $68,994,000.00
Money lost on Linda McMahon thinking she could be elected to the US senate-$50,000,000.00..
There are no doubt a multitude of reasons why Linda McMahon was defeated by her Democrat opponent Richard Blumenthal, but one could wonder if her affiliation with WWE is what ultimately caused her to lose the race....then again...She didn't win because she didn't get enough votes. That's the bottom line.

Oh ya...having to start paying wrestlers as employees rather than as independent contractors because running in an... election finally got the government to investigate your scam: Priceless...
Whatta ya think Vince ya old bastard?

Did have quite the bad dream lately...had a dream that after getting my TESOL certification that i took a job in Japan teaching English...sounds good enough eh? Well i took it and lo and behold the recruiter played an evil trick on me and i landed in S Korea and worse of all the Hagwon was located in Itaewon at the top of Hooker Hill of all places...i woke up folks and i had to pinch myself to make sure this damn dream wasn't real...than again why is it that i could see some sleazy Hagwon owner locating their business there? Some things in this life just fail to suprise me over and over again...then again i do miss some of the awesome signs i saw in S Korea and to a lesser extent in Japan...

Anyways this is Old Man Robb...over and out! Have a good one!