"Mrs. E Knocking at the back door"

Is it 3AM yet? My game bores me late nights and I want tea, or a cigarette or maybe type a blog.

Mrs, 'E' Knocking at the back Door looks like a code for something, but it was just a way to remember a rule in English. 
I've heard that "Phonics" fell out of fashion.
I'm imagining that our teacher went over the origins and why they taught it, but now sadly I read that all their efforts were wasted.

My brother blamed multi-lingual teaching.

And I don't think our phonics rules would translate into a different language.

Another better blog said it first ("Phonics" not the languages part)

https://www.groupcentered.com/reading-blog/reading-wars-are-over-phonics-failed-whole-language-failed-balanced-literacy-failed-who-won-it-certainly-wasnt-the-students

At this point in irrelevant time some not-so-clever person brings up

Bough,
Through,
Rough / Tough
And after a short argument, they get bored and a little pissed you didn't laugh at their joke, and stalk off.

"Man's Laughter" is a Joke an old dead comedian used to drag out (Manslaughter pronounced by a french detective)

The point is, Phonics doesn't cover the huge amount of weirdly spelled words in English. They seem to just help your OCD tendencies ("I before E except after C (And in weigh and neigh)"

I think (Really not sure) Phonics was a reading aid, not a spelling aid, and the rote-memorization method has survived since time immemorial: The Presidents. The Elements. The Planets. The Multiplication table (up to 12, in a Pee-Chee folder) 

Socket-wrench-socket sizes (SAE and Metric)

The "Wordstar" Editor

"Internal conflicts"

CTRL B for bold, CTRL-I for italic (italic) CTRL-C for copy, CTRL-V for paste, CTRL-Z for mistakes, CTRL-X for "not here Buddy, Take it somewhere else" and the rest of the gang are available in Microsoft, but Microsoft is too woke for these people and they damn it to hell, one letter at a time.

Uh, where was I: "Rote Memorization."

Still the best, for a wide swath of the population, but the new generation of point-clickers think it's bullshit.

How far back Ancient-History should go, um,?

Not being in elementary school anymore, I wonder.
But it matters; -They're making a history test for Immigrants (Which now I suppose I will have to go look up,)
"Who was the Fourth President?

Mad...wut??

What was Mckinley famous for?

(Ask a Filipino or a Hawaiian about Mckinley)

It rankles, always has, that there are a huge amount of people who know more about fictional history (eg "Star Wars") than the real thing, but that's a different blog.

For example, how will this bit of fiction be put in history books of the future?

It's either fiction that Hegseth potentially endangered people on a mission,

or

Hegseth is such a biggie guy that he says what is declassified and when.

I wonder about the wife and the newspaper-guy, maybe this tidbit was released on purpose, to the loudest-mouthed people he knew.

related? IDK https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2025/10/23/the-pentagon-stooges




My fantasy bloggy-world imagines that I have actual readers.... (lol) 

To play the game you must mop the floor:
Steal the mop, 

kill the old guy with the bucket,

and make friends with the dish-washer-guy to get soap.

All without alerting the boss who thinks you've got your own mop and bucket.

So OK you're mopping the floor at exactly the right spot, and the prison-guard falls and dies,

so's you can steal his keys and rescue the girl from her cell.

F*ck up and she is executed tomorrow.

Succeed and you get XP.

TLDR it's very draining and I'm just about ready to choose another game.

BUT

There's the shame of giving up, and the knowledge that very few games I own will work.

A fictional movie I bought last year was absolutely awful.

The plot was fine and such, but the movie-quality could have been from the theater-trashcan.

THIS year I bought what I *think* (I hope) is the same movie, discounted to ten-cents.

Yay!! It's HD, it looks fantastic, but is it the exact same movie?
If people dance towards the end with a song I've linked to in this blog, then "yes."