My student Jenny has adopted the custom of saying "Wow, Fantastic!" as a sort of catch-all response. It can mean anything from, "I don't understand anything you said" to "I don't care" to "I'm very happy!" All of those. So, today, during class, as a kind of joke, I gave a 45 second speech that consisted of nothing but the words "Wow, Fantastic!" You know, with different intonations, gestures, rising tone, falling tone, questioning, stating, exclaiming, muttering. This was a big hit, and the students in the next class heard about it, and demanded I do the same for them. It became the thrill-du-jour. But now, of course, I have the phrase stuck for ever and ever in my brain, both Jenny's mindless version and my own highly variable one.
Wow. Fantastic.
In other news, Ellie writes, "All over the world, terrorizers are terrorizing people." This is SOOOO true, don't you think?