Sacha Baron Cohen, an essay when he was 8
Sandra Dodd
PART of an essay, anyway...
Sacha Baron Cohen (the English comedian who does Ali G and Borat)
won an essay contest when he was 8, and it was in the London Times.
I looked for the text but didn't find it. I could read this much in
what showed on a documentary video on YouTube.com I couldn't pull
the address (don't know why) but if you search for this you can find it:
Ali G before he was massiv (1/3)
It's a sarcastic kind of thing about school, and the school he went
to was a fancy all-boys' school in London. (Maybe even then he was
being sarcastic right in other people's faces and they didn't fully
perceive it. <G>)
"My first lesson on Monday morning is English. This reminds us of
the correct way to speak and write English. This is very important
as most of the boys have been watching television and speaking with
their parents all weekend. By the end of one English lesson, things,
especially our English, are more or less back to normal.
"Our second lesson on Monday is maths. Maths is my favourite
subject. In maths it is a great comfort every Monday that one plus
one still equals two. All types of things may have happened on the
weekend, Russia may have invaded Afghanistan, England may have lost
against the West Indies at cricket and the price of [something I
couldn't read] has jumped up, but in maths nothing has changed. One
plus one still equals two. There [was more they didn't show...]
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Sacha Baron Cohen (the English comedian who does Ali G and Borat)
won an essay contest when he was 8, and it was in the London Times.
I looked for the text but didn't find it. I could read this much in
what showed on a documentary video on YouTube.com I couldn't pull
the address (don't know why) but if you search for this you can find it:
Ali G before he was massiv (1/3)
It's a sarcastic kind of thing about school, and the school he went
to was a fancy all-boys' school in London. (Maybe even then he was
being sarcastic right in other people's faces and they didn't fully
perceive it. <G>)
"My first lesson on Monday morning is English. This reminds us of
the correct way to speak and write English. This is very important
as most of the boys have been watching television and speaking with
their parents all weekend. By the end of one English lesson, things,
especially our English, are more or less back to normal.
"Our second lesson on Monday is maths. Maths is my favourite
subject. In maths it is a great comfort every Monday that one plus
one still equals two. All types of things may have happened on the
weekend, Russia may have invaded Afghanistan, England may have lost
against the West Indies at cricket and the price of [something I
couldn't read] has jumped up, but in maths nothing has changed. One
plus one still equals two. There [was more they didn't show...]
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Joyce Fetteroll
On Nov 21, 2006, at 12:48 PM, Sandra Dodd wrote:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/03/09/
ncohen09.xml
I typed in Sacha Cohen and "Russia may have invaded Afghanistan" and
that's the only one that came up.
The missing part is:
> PART of an essay, anyway...There's a little more here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/03/09/
ncohen09.xml
I typed in Sacha Cohen and "Russia may have invaded Afghanistan" and
that's the only one that came up.
The missing part is:
> "All sorts of things may have happened over the weekend. Russia mayAnd a bit more:
> have invaded Afghanistan, England may have lost against the West
> Indies at cricket, and the price of Smarties has jumped 5p. But in
> our maths lesson nothing has changed. One plus one still equals
> two. After Monday morning's maths lesson, the world does seem a bit
> more reliable and less insane than it did on Sunday night."
> He concluded: "If I had to change something I would make everybodyJoyce
> go to school to learn again. That would make the world a better
> place, especially if teachers had to come back to school to learn
> again what it was like to be a schoolboy on a Monday morning."
Sandra Dodd
Thanks for finding that, Joyce. Good ending...
"...especially if teachers had to come back to school to learn
again what it was like to be a schoolboy on a Monday morning."
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"...especially if teachers had to come back to school to learn
again what it was like to be a schoolboy on a Monday morning."
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