Let's Take A Small Moment...

                          Now, today is a different week for The Snicker House.  Most of you are probably mad at me for not having the daily jokes page updated for 2-3 weeks.  Don't worry, daily jokes will be back next week, so don't fret.  It's been I while since this was mentioned, but let me tell you about something they talk about to a lot of school's these days.  
  
                          Yes, Rachel Joy Scott, the first person killed at the shooting at Columbine High School.  This happened in 1999 when Rachel was 17 years old.  Apparently, this girl had a very good idea about ethics, and how you should treat others.  She also thought if you were kind to someone it would cause a "Chain reaction of kindness."  
                           After her parents found out about her diary, a few years later they(with a couple of friends, family, and celebrities)created Rachel's Challenge.  This was a team of worker's devoted to convincing students to start a chain reaction of kindness.  So why don't you take up this challenge?  At little more kindness wouldn't hurt, right?  For more information about Rachel's Challenge and the shooting at Columbine High School go to: www.rachelschallenge.com

The Truth behind Thanksgiving

The Truth Behind Thanksgiving

Most people think of Thanksgiving as a great time for a feast, or “Finally!  Four days away from school!”  The true meaning of thanksgiving was lost long ago.  You look forward to the turkey, or the raspberry sauce, and totally forget that Pilgrims and the Native Americans had the first thanksgiving in 1621.  

Can you believe that they didn’t have turkey, stuffing, and cranberry sauce?  You know the best part of any thanksgiving dinner is the pie(as pie is the enemy of cake)!  They didn’t have that!  All these foods we have on this holiday were started by Sarah Josepha Hale(the woman who wrote “Mary Had A Little Lamb”).  

Most people think that Thanksgiving was a peaceful holiday, but it wasn’t.  The Pilgrims were puritans.  Puritans are members of a group of English Protestants in the 16th and 17th century.  These people regarded the Reformation of the Church of England by Queen Elizabeth as incomplete.  So they sought to regulate and simplify forms of worship.  The Pilgrims believed that anybody who didn’t have the same beliefs as them should be “purified.”  Since the Native Americans didn’t conform to their beliefs, the Pilgrims enslaved the strong and sent them to England, the weak, woman, and children, were all murdered.     

 

Talk About Classics...

Talk About Classics...

                 The Snicker House has a very important news bulletin...

Not really!

                 Enough with the trolling, let's get onto this weeks topic.

             Is it...

A.          Watermelons

B.          Peanuts

C.          Pistachios

D.          The Life Of Tina Fey

                  If you guessed "D" you are correct!  Just kidding!  The actual answer was "B", Peanuts!  It was a comic strip by Charles M. Schulz that ended on February 13, 2000, having published at least 17, 897 strips.  Pretty amazing for one guy to write and illustrate all those comic strips, even though it started on October 2, 1950.  

                  Here is some information from Wikipedia to shed some light on this iconic comic strip:  

Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz, which ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, continuing in reruns afterward. The strip is the most popular and influential in the history of the comic strip, with 17,897 strips published in all,^[1] making it "arguably the longest story ever told by one human being", according to Robert Thompson of Syracuse University. At its peak, Peanuts ran in over 2,600 newspapers, with a readership of 355 million in 75 countries, and was translated into 21 languages.^[2] It helped to cement the four-panel gag strip as the standard in the United States,^[3] and together with its merchandise earned Schulz more than $1 billion.^[1]Reprints of the strip are still syndicated and run in almost every U.S. newspaper.

Peanuts achieved considerable success with its television specials, several of which, including A Charlie Brown Christmas^[4] and It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown,^[5] won or were nominated for Emmy Awards. The holiday specials remain popular and are currently broadcast on ABC in the United States during the corresponding seasons. The Peanuts franchise met acclaim in theatre with the stage musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown being a successful and often-performed production.

Peanuts has been described as "the most shining example of the American success story in the comic strip field"; this is ironic, given its theme is "the great American unsuccess story." The main character, Charlie Brown, is meek, nervous and lacks self-confidence. He is unable to fly a kite, win a baseball game or kick a football.^[6]

This was found on:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanuts

"MAD" About Hurricane Sandy (Cheeks)

"Mad" About Hurricane Sandy (Cheeks)

            

  Sorry, all my vigilant readers, that I haven't 

posted in a week and  a couple of days, for I lost power for this amount of time, because of Hurricane Sandy.  So, I promise to all my readers, I will never insult Texas again.  I won't say "shoes from Texas are dumb."  I will never say anything demeaning about Texas, or anything from Texas.  I am very sorry, and though other people may not be (some people don't even remember insulting Texas), I think I speak for everyone when I say this.  I guess Sandy is still mad at SpongeBob for insulting the state in that episode.

                                                                                      On a side note, guess who just won his second term?  The correct answer is, Barack Obama!  Though most people (including me) voted for Alfred E. Neuman,  most people decided that Barack Obama was the better one for the job.  In honor of the second place candidate, we are going to give a bit of info on the origin of Alfred: MAD!  Yes, the parody filled show and magazine!  He was the cover boy of all the magazines, sometimes disguised like Spider-Man, Barack Obama,  Justin Bieber,  and so many more!  Here is the first episode of this iconic show!