I was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1983 to him, an Egyptian engineer, and a loving American mother and grade school teacher, who together tried their best to create a happy childhood for me.
I'll say primary teachers, or if you want, you could say primary school teachers, so in this case, imagine that I've actually written this test booklet.
He asked about my birthdays, my grade school teachers, my childhood pets- and I had to admit that after killing three fish in a row, I'd given up on the whole institution.
DAN ENGBER: It happened to pop into my head because I was talking to a friend of mine who's an elementary school teacher, and we were discussing quicksand—as one does.
Charlie, I learned about quantum physics the old-fashioned way, by getting into my elementary school teacher's magic school bus and being shrunken down to the size of a quark.