April 8, 2012

“When I went to MacDonald’s I ordered a hamburger and a small fry.”

By RAB

I hope your holiday menu does not include children as a side dish.

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Teacher of English writing and literature (college-level); academic-freedom activist; editor and copy editor; theater director, costumer, actress, playwright. View all posts by RAB

This entry was posted on Sunday, April 8th, 2012 at 8:22 am and tagged with French fries, small fry and posted in education, humor, just plain wrong!, student writing. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

5 responses to ““When I went to MacDonald’s I ordered a hamburger and a small fry.””

Irene
April 8th, 2012 at 9:00 am

And, would you like fries with that?

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Mary Jane Schaefer
April 8th, 2012 at 9:05 am

Happy Easter, Ruth Anne. Thank you for putting your eggs into this basket. They are lovely.

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Pat Skene
April 9th, 2012 at 8:24 am

I hear those pesky little small fries are very good dipped in chocolate. Hoppy Easter.

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philosophermouseofthehedge
April 9th, 2012 at 7:22 pm

Thanks – this is priceless. Just rolling with laughter.

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yearstricken
April 9th, 2012 at 8:36 pm

Is that what they mean by the children’s menu?

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