a side note

I saw this at the American Museum of Natural History in New York last summer. I want to make a poster of it and put it on my classroom wall. There are a few problems with it, though. For one, the girls will riot. For another, the lack of a comma between "game" and "boys" will make the kids see the word "GAME BOYS" and get them confused and excited and unable to read the rest of Roosevelt's message.

The AMNH is one of those places where you can pay the suggested admission ($15) or whatever you want, but if you purchase tickets at the kiosk, you automatically pay the $15. If you want to pay less, you have to buy your ticket from the front desk, and as hard as it is to pay $15 for the fifth museum stop on your trip, it is harder to hand the ticket lady $5, especially when there's no naturally conversational way to say, "Did you know this Burberry scarf I'm wearing is fake? Yeah, I bought it at the Temple Street night market for three bucks. Seriously."

I don't remember what Mart and I did, but I do remember shelling out $25 apiece for umbrellas at the Met during an amazing downpour, so it seems kind of shameful to think that we might have tried to stiff the AMNH.