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 <title>astah's status on Friday, 07-Dec-12 11:27:41 UTC</title>
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 <html>@&lt;span class=&quot;vcard&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rainbowdash.net/user/9434&quot; class=&quot;url&quot; title=&quot;Jim Kuback&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fn nickname&quot;&gt;abigpony&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; not &amp;quot;ha ha&amp;quot; funny. more of the non-sequiteur, stupid, style joke.  Absurdist humor, such as the idea of a man getting pregnant, is meant to be superficial humor.  Not to be taken seriously, but more as a means to lighten the mood and provide an avenue through which the class will open up to the substitute teacher and, as a result, be more responsive and engaged.  It was a pedagogical tactic.  What made me sad was that a 15 year old student didn't know what &amp;quot;maternity&amp;quot; meant.  That is truly disturbing.  And of course it isn't a funny joke... it's a suuuuuuuper lame joke.  The same way hipsters are fashionable by consciously attempting to be unfashionable</html>
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