Last night in my Methods class, my professor began a critique of D.O.L. (daily oral language – total garbage) by explaining that “D.O.L. is not a hardcore punk band, that’s S.O.D.,” which I think was lost on everyone but me.

At the break I asked if he could remember what S.O.D. stood for, to which he replied, rightly, “Stormtroopers of Death?”

It was a fine moment.

And really, in a classroom full (okay, there were four of us) of preservice Language Arts teachers, doesn’t it just make sense to invoke a band whose catchiest slogan was the very tongue in cheek “Speak English or Die?”  I think so.