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The last post in this category was a really long time ago, so...
I went to school.
Alrighty then.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you.
You may go.
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Blue, Just a cotton pickin' minute... He didn't say 1 or 2.
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05/17/06 08:08 AM
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I was a hall monitor, so never needed a pass.
From your wise-crack answers, you two strike me as the kind that would run in the hallways.
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Re: long time
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05/17/06 12:51 PM
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But never with scissors!
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05/17/06 03:32 PM
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I only ran in the hallways when bored with skipping or "traipsing."
...and by the way... you strike me as the kind who ate library paste and shewed on their Crayolas.
Pat
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05/18/06 04:43 AM
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I only ran in the hallways when bored with skipping or "traipsing."
Was this on the way out after being expelled???
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05/18/06 08:11 AM
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Oh yea? Take this: pa-ting. You've just been hit with an e-spit wad. (And, yes, my parents got to be close, personal friends with the principal.)
There was this time that shooting others with spit balls was all the rage. I was leaning back in my chair, yawning, when this guy shot a spit wad across the room at me. It went right down my throat! So I plotted my revenge. I saw him a few days later, in the library, chatting up a girl. I had a plastic tube that was about 1 1/2 cm ID. I chewed up around 50 spit wads. (This took a good deal of the study hall.) I loaded them into the tube and called this guy's name. He popped his head above the top of the cubicle, not unlike a gopher coming up from its burrow, and I heaved a huge breath into the breach-end of this tube. He was plastered with little white speckles, glued to his face with my saliva. There was even an outline of his upper torso on the wall behind him. Revenge, back then, was very sweet.
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05/18/06 01:06 PM
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Jazz, I was never INTO spit wads. I had both a long range sniper model pea shooter and a concealable short barrel stealth model which could be secreted in your mouth along with a few rounds of ammo. With a well practiced tongue I could protrude the end of the barrel past my lips just a tad, load a round, fire, and retract the barrel beforre the round hit its mark and be ready to look the epitome of innocence in the aftermath of the stealth strike.
When I was a senior in HS shortly before graduation all the senior boys brought small concealable water pistols to school with which to shoot at lower classmen. All went well with most teachers just choosing to ignore the hijinks until near the end of the day when the track coach (all senior boys went to the athletic field whether or not they competed in track and field (PE requirement) stood inthe door of the locker room and detained everyone until all seniors were ready to go. He then instructed all the seniors to produce their water pistols and place them in their hip pocket and line up to go out the door. We all complied and one by one immediately prior to stepping out the door we each received a fierce swat from his big wooden paddle right square in the water pistol. Every single one of us exited the building with a smashed water pistol and a dripping wet rear jeans pocket.
OF course such treatment these days would make the national news, be championed by a team of litigators from ALCU, statements distancing the teacher's union from such barbaric treatment, scenes on the 6 o'clock news of the coach being led away in cuffs and on and on. Then, however, we were just hoping our dads didn't hear about it because whatever you got as school was just a warm up for what you got at home if the folks found out.
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Re: long time
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07/28/06 08:18 AM
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This particular topic (schooling) is dying on the vine. C'mon, doesn't anybody have anything to say about school? Even the fish in my pond are in a school. 
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07/28/06 10:56 AM
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Ahh yes the joys of schooling!
Well do I remember my assigned corner with the tall stool and conical cap. 
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Re: long time
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07/28/06 09:54 PM
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OK JAZZ, How many different schools did you go to?
I did not attend kindergarten but went to 3 different grade schools in 2 states, Jr High (7&8), High school in two states, 6 colleges in 4 states. Last stint in grad school was finished in '94 so I went to school off and on for 43 years.
Relearning science as it evolved was interesting at best, like going from the early days when there were only 4 elements (earth, air, fire, and water... phlogiston was just a theory) to 100 plus elements on the periodic table. Even geology was way different in the early days before the big rocks cooled.
I still recall the joy of getting the "Weekly Reader" at school. They always reported on the latest things of interest like Edison and his light bulb, the GERM theory, Louis Pasture, Madame Curie, Krakatoa, the fall of Rome, etc.
Pat
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Re: long time
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07/31/06 10:12 AM
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Nevr bin to skule a day in mie lyfe. And i'll bet no won kan tell.
I remember when Weekly Reader told us that, as adults, we would have a four day work week.
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07/31/06 11:25 AM
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Ah ha Have I got a deal for you ehh.
There is this Toll Bridge across Halifax Harbour I am partial owner of and as a representative of the other owners [ were all getting to old to look after it properly ] I could get you a really good purchase price if you are buying for investment purposes.
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Halifax Harbour... isn't that where they moved the London bridge?
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08/01/06 08:10 AM
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I wonder if Hakim can give us extra post points for keeping this topic active. (Even though is has NOTHING to do with schooling.)
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No ; the London Bridgw is located elswhere. Negotiations for sale of the of London Bridge will be a little more rigorous as it is in an area where maintenance is muck kinder to the net profit.
But that does not mean we will look askance at an offer as our small investment group is always open to offers.
Please note that we do not accept partial cash payments in excess of 10K!
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08/01/06 10:13 PM
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Jazz, About the 4 day work week. Yeah. A friend of mine took some future studies course in college and was always telling me about productivity getting so high and all the automation so that only folks who wanted to work would. Others would be paid not to work or do things to benefit society and such.
He didn't miss it much. Those of us who wanted to, did work and the social welfare system made if so that no one had to work to share the workers productivity.
The Gov lab (part of a network of DoD labs) I retired from was an early adopter of a couple things. The lab had email when the vast majority of the US did not know the meaning of the term.
Our work day was over 8 hrs a day and we got every other Friday off. So we worked 4 days one week and 5 the next but the Fridays we worked were shorter days. Since we got paid every two weeks on Friday, I used to say I only worked on Friday when Friday was a payday. The idea was that 10 hrs was a bit lengthy for intellectual work but 9 was OK. I don't know about the productivity but I can tell you about the popularity. It was very popular and was a draw and assistance in recruiting young scientists and engineers.
I didn't mention it but we had direct microwave broadcasts from local universities so we could (and I did) attend classes remotely from a "wired" room at the lab. The classes were interactive and you could talk and be heard by the instructor and the students who were either taking it LIVE or in another remote classroom. The "Systems Programing UNIX in C" class that I took had over a dozen remote classrooms (like the one I was in, including one in Mexico) as well as two remote classrooms on campus.
...by the way guys... there isn't THE London Bridge there is A London Bridge. There are (were) several London Bridges. One of the most famous (due to being transported) was taken apart and reassembled at Lake Havasu on the Colorado river (Lake Havasu Arizona.)
Pat
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Picky, picky, lordy we have our limitations being challenge so to say!
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Re: long time
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HUH?
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thats too funny, you should be a writer the way you describe stuff.
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fish_dude, Please don't make fun of Egon, he can't help his accent, even when he writes.
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fish_dude?? i was talking about jazzdads story, i started laughing when i was reading that. some people have a talent for describing things in writing, ill bet he is a writer.
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FishDude, Jazz is one of a few writers we have here as regulars or lurkers. Although it may be hard to believe, given my poor spelling, grammar, and syntax, I have some writing to my credit but don't currently have a need to know so I can't read what I wrote. (Classified Journal.)
The last time I went back to grad school for another piece of wall paper (1994 Instructional Technology) my advisor and prof for many classes always gave two grades on his essay tests. One was for correctness and appropriateness of what you said and the other grade was for how you said it. I started out with extremely poor "how I said it" marks (military technical style and vocab) It took me the better part of the first couple classes with him to get accurately dialed in to how he liked it. As writen communications was an important part of Instructional Technology there was a special writing competency test above and beyond any class. You could have a perfect 4.0 all the way through but if you couldn't pass the writing competancy test you didn't pass go and collect $200.
Grading was double blind. There were 3-4 profs who drew exams to grade at random and student names were not on the exam, just a control number. My nightmare was that the prof who had been more than a bit harsh on my writing would get my exam and recognize me through some vestige of my previouis style. I got a great grade and terrific lauditory marginal comments. The real shock was that I had succeeded in being a chameleon because it was the prof I feared the most that graded my exam.
Probably a one time accident.
I wouldn't "out" any writers who haven't gone public but take for example Dave... He writes for a JD Tractor nostalgia magazine. There are others.
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Re: long time
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 Yep..... that's right. I am a regular contributor to TWO-CYLINDER magazine, the official publication of the John Deere Tractor Club. I write mostly nostalgia-type articles about every day farming with the old JD two-bangers. Many of the subscribers to that magazine; those who do own early model JD tractors; are too young to have actually farmed with them. They don't know how it felt to take out yet another fence post because your eleven-year old hands couldn't get that over-center hand clutch snapped out quite quick enough; or what it was like to slip through a sea of standing corn in fourth gear on a 1940, hand-crank, John Deere AWH with cultivators front and back; or to look over your shoulder at a John Deere No. 5 mower as it laid the alfalfa down. You can drive a John Deere in a hundred parades, but until you've felt the whole tractor vibrate with power on a full pull, you haven't felt the unique "mechanical presence" that those tractors seemed to have.
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