Friday, April 3, 2009

ponder - (v.): to spend time thinking carefully and seriously about a problem, a difficult question, or something that has happened
  • Synonyms: think about, think over, wonder about, consider
  • Antonyms: forget, ignore
  • Origin: 1330 L. ponderare meaning "to weigh" (as in pound)
  • Example: Today we will ponder the issue of how to get more time on the blog…

Do you have any questions for us to ponder?????

5 comments:

fabulous student said...

Things we ponder:
I never say never.
Ain't ain't a word.
What came first: the chicken or the egg?
Do you ponder about the word ponder?
Why did they construct car washes?
Where does rain come from?
Why do sharks swim so fast?
Why did the chicken cross the road?
Why doesn't a whale have gills?
Who discovered the Earth?
Why do skeletons have bad grammar?
What does THAT mean?
Why did Krakatoa blow up?
How do you spell Krakatoa?
Why did you raise your hand when you didn't even speak?
Why does Vincent climb on his chair?
Why did the man throw his clock out the window?
Why does the clock hand go clockwise?
Why do we have words of the day?
Why do people in our time make us pay for electricity?
How are volcanoes made and how do they explode?
What are we doing with Ms. Twichel's class?
How do you spell supercalifragilisticexpialidococious?
Why do people chew on their shirts?
Why do birds fly?
Why do they call butterflies butterflies?
Why do you have to go to the bathroom in the toilet when you could just go outside?
Why do people get toe jam?
Why do people get ear wax?
Why do we chew bubble gum?
Why do we have stomach aches?
Why do we have tongues?
Why do toilets get clogged?
Why do they call them goldfish crackers?
Why do people use a fork to eat instead of their hands and mouth?
Why do nerds get Nerds when they're already nerds?
Why do they make flavored dental floss?
Why do people have sideburns? And why are they called that?
Why do people take a shower? WHY WOULD YOU NOT?!?!?!?!?!
Why do monkeys have opposable thumbs?
Why don't elephants have thumbs?
Why don't most animals walk on two feet?
Why do people put something sweet on marshmallows when they are already sweet?
Why do some animals stink really bad?
Why do people grow chest hair?
Why do people grow armpit hair?
Why did they invent Axe chocolate when it doesn't actually taste like chocolate?
Why are dinosaurs extinct?

fabulous student said...

Jason says
Yes. I do have a questions for us to ponder. Why did Cheyenne's hamster run into the VENT to hide, why didn't it hide somewhere else?WOO HOO
!!!! for the word not Cheyenne.

fabulous student said...

Cheyenne says...
What I ponder about is trying to get my hamster out of the vent!
IS THIS THE END!

fabulous student said...

Izaiah says

Some times i ponder why they call santda cauls sant nick insetd of chris.

fabulous student said...

Tye says...
Here are some things to ponder:
Why do we have pets?
Why does Vincent climb on his chair?
Why do we tell jokes?
Why do we have phones?
Why do we capitalize our sentences?
Why do we have vents?
Why do we say WOOHOO?
Why do we have names?