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minus-squareNaz@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-211 hours ago6th grade biology class in the United States, 2001 AD. The teacher slaps up a diagram of a cell and organelles. 30-45 children all looking around the room, not exactly paying attention She points to the various organelles, trying to explain their purpose, the golgi complex, ribosomes… “And the mitochondria” “Is the power house of the cell” Children cheer in applause and repeat it, because it rhymes. It then enters the collective unconscious of English speakers. I was in the room where it happened.
minus-squarebleistift2@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 hour ago “And the mitochondria” “Is the power house of the cell” Children cheer in applause and repeat it, because it rhymes. Where the hell is the rhyme in this?
6th grade biology class in the United States, 2001 AD.
The teacher slaps up a diagram of a cell and organelles.
30-45 children all looking around the room, not exactly paying attention
She points to the various organelles, trying to explain their purpose, the golgi complex, ribosomes…
“And the mitochondria”
“Is the power house of the cell”
Children cheer in applause and repeat it, because it rhymes.
It then enters the collective unconscious of English speakers.
I was in the room where it happened.
Where the hell is the rhyme in this?