3/2/06

Zat was Venn, Diz is Now

What is a Venn diagram? You know them, even if you don't know you do. They are those intersecting circle illustrations that describe specific populations.



First, you lassoo all women in one corral. Then you swing your lariat around everyone in the United States. Next you snare everybody born 1946-1956 in a noose. Then you enclose all the art teachers in a pink bubble, and all bloggers in a cyber circle. These circles all buy tickets for the bumper cars at the Texas State Fair where they bump into and overlap each other. Don Ho sings "Tiny Bubbles" with Lawrence Welk's champagne music bubble machine and Mr. Moose dropping ping pong balls on Captain Kangaroo.

Hua li'i
I ka waina
Au hau'oli
I ka wa au inu

Tiny bubbles
Make me warm all over
With a feelin' that
I'm gonna love you till the end of time


Who a leakied is so last week. This week it is who a barfied. Put a dozen first graders in a circle. One of them projectile vomits. In their panic and body-functions exhilaration, the eleven run right through the barf on the rug in attempts to flee. This requires a different diagram and a big can of Lysol.

The elementary art students had different ideas about Robert McCloskey's childrens' classic, Blueberries For Sal. One student drew manic overlapping circles for giant blueberries. He was making a "Venn berrygram!"

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