Sunday, August 21, 2011

Survey says 50 percent of English teachers are Gnomes, Hobbits, or Dwarves.

A survey of English teachers in the Wuxi China Expatdom has revealed that 50 percent of them are not normal humans but small human-like creatures. The survey by Ispo-Facto-Reid in co-operation with the Wuxi Education Bureau looked at the medical examination records of all English teachers currently registered with the bureau.

"The startling results say a lot about the state of English teaching in the Wuxi China Expatdom," said long-time industry observer Henry W. Fowler. "Any industry with a high portion of Gnomes, Hobbits, and Dwarves is hard-up for bodies to fill positions."

Pierce Broslund, President of the Wuxi English Teachers and Trainers Organization (WETTO), poo-pooed the results, saying that they were the nefarious work of some trouble-maker troll on the Internet with nothing better to do with his time.
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3 comments:

  1. Dirt E.HarrieAugust 21, 2011 at 3:14 AM

    So who are we to believe is correct as regards
    the small English teachers?

    Just that, I'd be interested to know how many of the (claimed) Gnomes, Hobbits, and Dwarves
    would be able to fit inside a standard-sized
    WCE taxi?

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  2. Duston Short, English TeacherAugust 21, 2011 at 10:16 PM

    Me and ten of my buddy-pal-dwarfs fit in a Wuxi China Taxi easy.

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  3. Andis KaulinsAugust 21, 2011 at 10:22 PM

    This reminds me of an exhange between the George Kennedy and Leslie Nielson characters in a Naked Gun movie that went along these lines:

    Kennedy: "They say Nordberg got's a fifty-fifty chance of surviving!"

    Nielson: "Oh!"

    Kennedy: "And there's a ten percent chance of that!"

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