Tales from the Classroom: The Art of Shoemaking
Posted on October 25, 2004 @ 6:04 pm
A note to my fellow educators: if you’re ever explaining how tariffs may help protect domestic industries in the developing world with a hypothetical story about a skilled shoemaker in Afghanistan competing with Nike and you want to be taken seriously, don’t start off the story with, “Imagine there’s a cobbler in Kabul…”
Trust me on this one.
Bonus! Awful “cobbler in Kabul” limerick follows after the jump…
There once was a cobbler in Kabul,
Who traded some shoes for a bauble.
He stashed it away,
For some rainy day,
And then found out it was only a marble.
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This is the best limerick ever. Your cool blog alert warning has been raised to fuschia.
HOMER: “I once knew a man from Nantucket.”
BART: “And?”
HOMER: “Let’s just say the stories about him are greatly exaggerated.”
Very nice!
It’s not a proper Apropos of Something blog entry without at least one Simpsons reference.