The girls started learning about the Ottoman Empire this week and today was about Mehmen the conqueror and how he changed Constantinople to Istanbul. So, of course I had to find the song by They Might Be Giants on the internet and play it for them.
Only M was singing "Hamster Dam" instead of New Amsterdam and J laughed so hard so she got the hiccups. And now, if I dream tonight, I'm sure it will be of a dam breaking and a rushing river of hamsters coming to flood New York.
That never would have happened in Ms Culpeppar's history class.
And if my children were in a classroom somewhere, I would have missed that. So, if I ever get discouraged and start threatening to put them in school, all someone needs to say is "Hamster Dam". I'm sure I'll snap out of it.
I got so excited when I saw that title because I was sure you must be a fan of "the Wire."
ReplyDeleteSome bad language quoting the show on here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamsterdam
-Screw
I always loved the "Tiny Toons" where they used this song! I am a huge TMBG fan (as if you couldn't figure THAT out already)..
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv-KcF3Rkv8
-wassamatta_u
I thought "WOW what a homeschool, she bought a hamster!"
ReplyDeleteOh the memories of that CASSETTE in my car in the nineties!
"I am not your friend, I am your only friend, but I'm a little glowing friend, but really I'm not actually your friend, but I am"
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