Obama's Secretary of Education: Arne Duncan

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What non-basketball-related qualifications does he have?

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I have nothing against charter schools. As long as we're not defunding public schools to send people to private schools, I'm fine.

This.

I wish Mike Honda had gotten the job, though. Maybe some other one...

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but they'd have to actually deliver and not just be slackers on tenure like most of the people I've encountered.

What bist your job, Lunar?

bist?

And, I may have been exaggerating.

Second-person singular form of "be". Not the correct tense here, I think.

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What bist your job, Lunar?

Second-person singular form of "be". Not the correct tense here, I think.

What tense are you talking about, and when was it popularly used?

Present; it's current in German, and it was common in certain English dialects, though that's dying out now.

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but they'd have to actually deliver and not just be slackers on tenure like most of the people I've encountered.

What bist your job, Lunar?

bist?

And, I may have been exaggerating.

Second-person singular form of "be". Not the correct tense here, I think.

It most certainly is correct here! As in "ow bist old butt".

Third-person as well?

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but they'd have to actually deliver and not just be slackers on tenure like most of the people I've encountered.

What bist your job, Lunar?

bist?

And, I may have been exaggerating.

Second-person singular form of "be". Not the correct tense here, I think.

It most certainly is correct here! As in "ow bist old butt".

Third-person as well?

"Ow bist old butt" is a question and a greeting rolled into one.

What does it mean?

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but they'd have to actually deliver and not just be slackers on tenure like most of the people I've encountered.

What bist your job, Lunar?

bist?

And, I may have been exaggerating.

Second-person singular form of "be". Not the correct tense here, I think.

It most certainly is correct here! As in "ow bist old butt".

Third-person as well?

"Ow bist old butt" is a question and a greeting rolled into one.

What does it mean?

"How are you, friend?"

It's a Forest of Dean expression. Sometimes it's "me old butt" or "old butty" rather than just "old butt".

Does "old butt" have any cognates?