call for submissions

not for submissives, you bunch of nuts. heh.

so i'm thinking about this week's assignment. last week we hadn't gotten to vowels yet, so i was seriously limited in what i could ask the kids to transcribe. this week we've had vowels, though, and they're (understandably) causing some trouble. so i'm thinking, way fewer questions this time around. i've pretty much decided to give them three short sentences to transcribe (don't forget to mark the stress; please don't transcribe word boundaries) and three short transcriptions to give me back in ordinary english (maybe i'll give them extra credit if they transcribe their names, or something).

i'd like the three sentences they have to decode to be something that (a) they'll recognize, but (b) will also amuse them, when they get it right. anyone have suggestions, for short things like this that will be recognizable to today's eighteen-year-olds? (in a bind, i could transcribe the honor code, but i think i'd prefer they think of me as "Ms. Fox -- she's kind of a geek?", rather than "Ms.-Fox-she's-a-geek". [g])