XPost: alt.usage.english, alt.fan.states.mississippi, sac.politics   
   XPost: or.politics   
   From: peter@pmoylan.org   
      
   On 14/01/26 19:07, Hibou wrote:   
   > Le 13/01/2026 à 09:59, Crybaby Alex Padilla a écrit :   
   >>   
   >> JACKSON, Miss. (InvestigateTV) — Education officials in nearly 40 states   
   >> are studying Mississippi’s dramatic literacy transformation.   
   >>   
   >> Mississippi, once ranked 49th nationally in fourth-grade reading scores   
   >> in 2013, now ranks ninth in the nation and leads the country in overall   
   >> reading improvement. [...]   
   >   
   > Apparently, about 17 million Americans believe that chocolate milk comes   
   > from brown cows¹.   
   >   
   > Hurrah for American education!   
   >   
   > (I expect they all voted for Trump.)   
      
   So where do they think chocolate comes from? The mind boggles.   
      
   As children, we had a little ditty   
        Milk, milk, lemonade,   
        Around the corner chocolate's made   
   which we sang while pointing to the appropriate part of our body.   
      
   Mind you, most Australians believe that brown eggs come from red chooks.   
   And most of the time they're right.   
      
   --   
   Peter Moylan       peter@pmoylan.org    http://www.pmoylan.org   
   Newcastle, NSW   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)