Namesake School Misprints Name, Madison Not Amused

Dateline: America The Dim. We are NOT stupid, and we are edjumicating your children to the bestest and highest standards in the land. My Pet Goat is required reading, but that isn’t the only thing presidential we share here in Ogden. Our new elementary school shares a name with a former president. Most board members voted May 23rd for the name Madison because it’s the street which runs beside the school. Once the fact emerged, several allowed that Madison had been a great president. It is not clear how many actually claim to remember his term in office.

The American Dream Foundation was kind enough to donate a large portrait and plaque, firmly cementing our connection with former president James Madison, or James A. Madison as it is spelled on the letterhead, and was scheduled to be painted on the sign.

Before the first letter was engraved on that sign, a nit picking history teacher pointed out that there is no A in the president’s name, even if it does sound better with one. Not one to let sleeping does lie, he insisted we remove the A, though it means turning reams of letterhead into scratch paper, he’s like that. We must change it anyway, school board member and head of the American Dream Association John Gullo stated "I’m blindsided, I hate to be embarrassed”.

Members of the smoking lounge in the furnace room agree that if we’d simply stuck to the name of the street, none of this kerfuffle would have come up from putting on airs and trying to identify with a president.

Read rest of School gets president's name wrong here REUTERS 8/17/07

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Until I followed the link to the story, I was getting ready to spell his name MDISON

Most of us historian-scholar types know that the "S" in Harry S. Truman doesn't stand for anything (why is there a period, then?)

But I bet very few people know that full name of George W's father was ... George Herbert Hoover Walker Bush.

#1 x.smith on 2007-08-19 00:10

OOPS!
Thanks X.Smith. You caught me giving
short shrift to proof reading.'
Sorry I wasn't clear a'tall about
which A I was referring to at that point.
It would have been a real challenge to pronounce in the way I'd implied!

Looks as though we'd need a grammarian type to answer your historian query about the S in Harry S. Truman. It does
roll off of the tongue nicely.
This brings to mind all of the Bush cronies. re they at least expected to include the initials of their pet names like "Fart Blossom"?

You know, piling more names on the first
Bush does not distinguish him the way it often does other people of note. It must been a wee nightmare for him in kindergarten.

#1.1 Newscat on 2007-08-20 06:45

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