schizoforenzics

Sometimes some crimes
Go slips are double
When the crimes
Go slipping through the cracks
But these two, they'll find whatever's wrong gets solved get some help!!!
The Gumshoes...
The crimes...
Slipping through the cracks...
They are picking up the slack
There's no case too big
No case too small
When you need help just call
Ch-ch-ch-Chip 'N Dale's
Rescue Rangers
Ch-ch-ch-Chip 'N Dale
When there's danger
No, No, it never fails
Once they're involved
Somehow whatever's wrong gets solved

political shoemakers

Perhaps the most plausible explanation for the
intellectualism of the profession derives from
this factor: the shoemaker's work both was
sedentary and required little physical strength.
[...] Maybe that provided an incentive to
acquire other kinds of prestige. And maybe
here the semi-routine nature of a large part
of the work, which could be easily combined
with thought, observation, and conversation,
suggested intellectual alternatives.

-- E. J. Hobsbawm and Joan Wallach Scott, "Political shoemakers", Past
and Present, 1980; 89: 86-114.

Quoted in "Phyles: Economic Democracy in XXIst Century",
http://deugarte.com/gomi/phyles.pdf

monkey business

«I had to keep guessing at the channel; I had to discern, mostly by
inspiration, the signs of hidden banks; I watched for sunken stones; I
was learning to clap my teeth smartly before my heart flew out, when I
shaved by a fluke some infernal sly old snag that would have ripped
the life out of the tin-pot steamboat and drowned all the pilgrims; I
had to keep a look-out for the signs of dead wood we could cut up in
the night for next day's steaming. When you have to attend to things
of that sort, to the mere incidents of the surface, the reality--the
reality, I tell you--fades. The inner truth is hidden--luckily,
luckily. But I felt it all the same; I felt often its mysterious
stillness watching me at my monkey tricks, just as it watches you
fellows performing on your respective tight-ropes for--what is it?
half-a-crown a tumble--» --
http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Joseph_Conrad/Heart_of_Darkness/Chapter_II_p2.html

nothing for money

Q1. "We gotta install microwave ovens, custom kitchen deliveries, we
gotta move these refrigerators, we gotta move these colour TV's." -
Dire Straits

Q2. "Some people, they like to go out dancing, and other peoples, they
have to work, just watch me now!" - The Velvet Underground

Q3. "I took quarter water, sold it in bottles for 2 bucks. Coca-Cola
came and bought it for billions, what the fuck!" - 50 Cent

language

As pedagogical and educational research has shown (Mercer, 2008;
Nystrand, 1997b; Wells & Arauz, 2006), verbal interaction in general
plays an important role in the construction of knowledge. Knowledge is
constructed at the interplay of experience and the use of symbolic
systems, like language (Halliday, 1993). Through interacting verbally
with others, people construct new notions and new understandings and
thus knowledge. -- "Mirroring interaction", Femke Joyce Nijland
http://arno.uvt.nl/show.cgi?fid=121427

Mercer, N. (2008). Talk and the development of reasoning and
understanding. Human Development, 51, 90-100.

Nystrand, M. (1997b). What's a Teacher to Do? Dialogism in the
Classroom. In: Nystrand, M., Gamoran, A., Kachur, R. & Prendergast, C.
(Eds.), Opening Dialogue. New York: Teachers College Press, 89-110

Wells, G. & Arauz, R.M. (2006). Dialogue in the classroom. Journal of
the Learning Sciences, 15, 379-428.

Halliday, M.A.K. (1993). Towards a language-based theory of learning.
Linguistics and Education, 5, 93-116.