Old School.
Source: FOBO (Fromoldbooks.org)
Grammar mnemonics and rules I found written down in a notebook from 7th grade that I had completely forgotten:
I before E except after C and when it sounds like “a” as in “neighbor” and “weigh”.
And also when it sounds like “i” as in “heist” and “Fahrenheit”.
And also for some reason when it sounds like “e” as in “protein”, which is weird.
Never end a sentence with a preposition unless the sentence ends with “a preposition.
Confusing “who” and “whom” is really the worst
So never ever ask “Whom’s on first?”
Be more or less specific and decisive if that’s okay with you.
“I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Gray” is spelled with an “a”
Except in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and also the UK.
“Color” and “flavor” are spelled without “u”
Except outside the United States, pretty much anywhere you’d want to go to.
A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea, but it seems like ideas should get a category of their own.
“Sesquipidalian” should be replaced with something that sounds less like a deep sea animal.
Splitting infinitives is to usually be avoided.
A “dessert” has twice as much sugar as a “desert” if your dessert is sugar-free because deserts don’t have any sugar at all.
A “principle” is a rule or belief, a “principal” is a school leader who pretends to be your pal to maintain the status quo, and Victoria Principal wasn’t the one who shot J.R., was she?
Most sentences are subject-verb-object and “subject”, “verb”, and “object” are three nouns that really need a category of their own.
The “b” in “subtle” is pretty much what it says it is.
Now you know how to tow two toes.
Double negatives should never not be used.
Similes are like metaphors but different.
The only rule that has no exceptions is the rule that there’s an exception to every rule.
No one remembers who Mnemosyne is.
Source: Imgur
April 2023-Staff assembled in the conference room to mark the occasion of the 28th year of Freethinkers Anonymous and to try and answer the question, What are we doing here? There are a lot of excellent blogs out there on a wide variety of topics that, thankfully, are still going while others, sadly, have dropped off. If anything makes Freethinkers Anonymous distinctive it’s longevity. What started as a random assortment of jokes emailed to a distribution list has grown into something resembling an internet landfill. It predated and survived the dot-com boom and, like those early internet companies, has never had a plan, purpose, or profit. On this note everyone cheered and went back to work.
School has been back in session for a few weeks now which means it’s time for a pop quiz! Match the following advertising mascots with little known trivia about their personal lives.
Having read several articles about New Year’s Resolutions over the years I’ve been able to coalesce all that I’ve learned into the following recommendations:
While Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups have, for obvious reasons, consistently been ranked the best Halloween candy, with Snickers, M&M’s, Kit Kats, Twizzlers, Mounds, 
My high school Junior year, in song:
