pjchik said:
She was named after the He-Man character.
Awesome!
I was the oldest person in my section and was trying to explain it to all these kids who didn't even remember the old show...much less the movie!
Reminds me of something really scary that happened to me a couple of years ago.
When I was in high school, our third form (uh... 8th grade?) Physics teacher taught us the Pac-Man Theory of Electrons. It's all about how electrons are Pac-Men who run around inside copper wires...
In 6th form (11th grade), a different Physics teacher explained to us that electrons aren't
really Pac-Men.
But in 7th form, we had the original teacher again, and he told us not to pay any attention to the second teacher - electrons
are Pac-Men, and he proceeded to use the Pac-Man Theory of Electrons to explain electromagnetism.
A couple of years later, I was teaching some 6th and 7th grade extension classes in physics, and naturally I used the Pac-Man theory to explain electricity. And it worked really well.
My mother teaches gifted preschool children, aged 2 to 4, and she occasionally teaches about electricity. She'd seen the classes I'd taken using tPMToE, and she tried it with her munchkins... but naturally, none of the 2-4 year olds had any clue what Pac-Man was.
But the
scary thing was a couple of years ago, when she discovered that a couple of the
parents of the 2-4 year olds didn't know what Pac-Man was.
How can someone old enough to have children not remember Pac-Man!?
-Hyp.
