Concerning Sesquipedalian’s

As you may or may not know I am in Air Force ROTC. On of the things they teach us how to do is write for the Air Force. An like any thing elce in the military every thing is very structured. We have a book that is over 250 pages long that tells us how to write memos and all sorts of fun stuff like that. In this book is a story that I would like to share about a sesquipedalian. I hope you all find it as amusing as I did, here it is:

“As director of communications, I was asked to prepare a memo reviewing our company’s training programs and materials. In the body of the memo, one of the sentences I mentioned the “pedagogical approach” used by one of the training manuals. The day after I routed the memo to the executive committee, I was called into the HR director’s office, and told that the executive vice president wanted me out of the building by lunch. When I asked why, I was told that she could not stand for “perverts” (pedophilia) working for her company. Finally, he showed me her copy of the memo, with her demand that I be fired, and the word “pedagogical” circled in red. The HR manager was fairly reasonable, and once he looked the word up in his dictionary and made a copy of the definition to send back to her, he told me not the worry. He would take care of it. Two days later, a memo to the entire staff came out, directing us that no words, which could not be found in the local Sunday news paper, could be used in company memos. A month later, I resigned. In accordance with company policy, I created my resignation memo by pasting words together from the Sunday paper.”

So just remember if you are going to be a sesquipedalian be careful, because not only can you looses friends, but you will find out how big of an idiot you work for…

Pedagogical- the art and science of teaching
Pedophilia- sexual desire of an adult towards a child

My Sonnet

Jason Burchett

The Wreck
On a warm Saturday we headed out
Accelerated up the trail real fast
The dust flew everywhere with out a doubt
Had to keep up for I could not be last
Ripping through the forest we all went
Cut across the hill I tumbled down
My hip my arm my bike my pride all spent
The bike lay hundred feet down on the ground
As I pushed I felt an awful POP!
They winched and pulled a quarter of the day
They finally got it up upon the top
This was not a satisfying delay
Bouncing down the trail it was such a sight
I think I’ll have a Tylenol tonight