Catching up on Pop Culture, 3rd period

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"Today is a holiday," Jon told the students. "One in America, and a different one in Britain. I thought today we should go over modern holidays, so those of you not from here can understand what they are."

He passed out pages to everyone showing US holidays. "Today is Memorial Day, a day for remembering military members fallen in the line of duty. A good number of holidays are either religious or military. Today, however, we'll be looking at some other holidays." He passed out another list. "These are varying degrees of celebrated, but they're worth knowing, particularly if you're spending time online. We've just passed Towel Day, a celebration of a particular series of books and radio plays that claim a towel is the most massively useful thing a person can carry. So today we're going to have towels," he passed out those as well, "and discuss their potential uses and usefulness. And if you have any questions about the other holidays on the list, we can cover those as well."

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Look over the holidays, see if you have any questions, think about your towel.

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How is a towel useful? What other questions about holidays do you have?

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Day off = extra sleep.

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Liberty Hazlett

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Holidays were usually rife with issues for the Hazlett household, and Libby was well aware of the fact that they didn't really celebrate them to the same extent (or even at all) as other families. So she was definitely intrigued by the list, and particularly amused about the Towel Day at hand.

She's just love to hear her father explain what made celebrating towels objectionable.

Actually, no, on second thought....maybe not.

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Billy Coen

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Billy knew well what holiday it was and in the back of his mind he was wrestling with a bit of guilt over the fact he wasn't making the short drive to go pay his respects to the few fallen comrades he had. But he did his best to distract himself from that as he listened to Jon and looked over the somewhat amusing list of holidays.

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Belle

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Belle was quite pleased with the idea of holidays celebrating books. This would come as a shock to precisely nobody.

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"I suppose a towel is good for the usual sorts of things a towel is good for. Drying things or cleaning them. Perhaps as a blanket or a pillow?"

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"Towels make it easier to enjoy time at the beach. I use them quite often when surfing and they make good barriers from the sand when I'm meditating too" Billy offered.

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Liz Sherman

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Josephine Jones

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Shane Gooseman

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"Those are all good uses," Jon agreed. "Clothing in a pinch, I suppose, if it's big enough. I'm curious if you can think of more outside-the-box ideas."

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"Those are uses," Jon agreed. "I wonder if you can come up with others."