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We need a new home

Dr Rod's English Blog has become a huge success, but we are totally frustrated by our limitations of being a Blog. The Blog acted really great in the beginning but as we have grown and our readership increased from 50 to over 19000 in 4 months we realize we need a different format and to offer many other things that we just cannot do.

We have identified areas where students from across the world need to work together - to collaborate, so see other kids work. We have seen teachers crying out for varied resources as well as original ideas. We never thought of our self as UNIQUE, yet we have become so. Every day I get letters asking for help on essays, exams, Shakespeare and hundreds of other things and yet many have to go unanswered.


So we need HELP! We cannot do this by a Blog any longer. I know Front Page and can work well with that. I would love to develop this site into an open resource linking together students of all ages from Year 5 through University. But they cannot search through Blog entries after Blog entries. So please, if there is anyone out there who can help us with a dedicated site - sorry we have NO money! And can help us get going for three months before the new school year begins PLEASE contact us here!


Write today! The possibilities are endless and the audience as you can see in UNIVERSAL not just USA, Europe but from Mongolia to Lesotho, Columbia to Yemen, Russia, Hong Kong, the lists is over 120 different countries. If your company today can help us PLEASE let me know.


Thanks Dr. Rod

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My favorite April’s Fool’s Joke ~ Arber

#23: Arm the Homeless


The joke is that a new charity to benefit the homeless is going to help the homeless by giving them weapons and ammunition called “The Arm The Homeless Coalition”. This joke was played by The Phoenix New Times but was actually a reprise of a 1993 prank done by the Ohio State University. They collected donations to pay for the weapons. A man dressed in a Santa Suit was the one who was accepting donations but anyone who donated the man would tell them information about the hoax.

I liked this joke because of how no one could expect it to be a fake since the thought of “Why give them food? Let’s give them weapons to hunt for their food.” The whole scare of little homeless children running around with weapons shooting anything that moves is pretty funny. Everything in it was made pretty good and well done seeming like there was a real charity for weapons. For all those reasons I like this hoax.