Survey says...

[ellyssian]

What is your favorite animal?

Cow - 3 votes
Bear - 6 votes
Turtle - 7 votes
Shark - 3 votes
WOL - 13 votes
Hermite Crab - 3 votes
Fish - 1 vote

Comments

the graph

[patrixa.livejournal.com]

I'm curious as to the kind of graph Rachel made: bar, pie, or line?

It boggles my mind that 4th graders are doing graphs!

Re: the graph

[wisedonkey.livejournal.com]

It's all part of a secret government plot.

Re: the graph

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

Isn't everything? =)

Re: the graph

[patrixa.livejournal.com]

should have known!

Re: the graph

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

A tally chart, really - turns out she didn't have to graph the results.

She had a chart with three columns: Animal, Tally, and Total.

As for the graphs, I can't remember when she started doing them, but I think they start simplistic ones in kindergarten.

[bookgirlwa.livejournal.com]

What's a WOL?

Owl

[salegamine.livejournal.com]

AFIK it's from Winnie the Pooh.

Strange that, Slamlander didn't know what a wol was either.

Re: Owl

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

As Tiggr might say, "Exactically!"

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

As salegamine pointed out, it's from Winnie the Pooh. The full derivation goes as follows:

Piglet lives in a beech tree that has a sign near it that is partially broken off. It says "TRESPASSERS WIL" and Piglet explains that was the name of his grandfather, which was short for Trespassers William. They called him Trespassers W, which was shorter, and his grandmother called him TW which is even shorter.

Many adventures later, after floods have driven them all to higher ground, Eeyore is out searching for a new house for Owl, whose old place had been blown over in the storm. Eeyore finds a place and leads them to Piglet's house.

Eeyore comments that the house already has Owl's name on it - reading "wil" as "W O L, that spells owl." To which the very educated Owl says something like "Well, bless my soul, so it does."

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

I hope I automatically counted for WOL.

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

Nope. Put you down for Hermite Crab.

:: stares at typo, thinking it's probably not going away just because I repeated it here ::