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Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 18:47:30 -0500, Kreisleriana wrote: On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:28:34 GMT, "Mishi" yodeled: "Sherry " wrote in message ... don't know if this is a real Arabic curse, but I heard it in college, and it's my favorite: "May the fleas of a thousand camels come to nest in your crotch!" Ginger-lyn I have heard one similar to that: May the fleas of a thousand syphilic camels infest your armpits! (my 12th grade english teacher was of Lebanese descent.) He also used to threaten the class with the "Lebanese Sleeper Hold" - you take your opponents head and stuff it into your armpit. Guaranteed to knock them out! Patti Hee hee. I love eccentric teachers. The math teacher at my high school was a bit eccentric. He wore cowboy boots to work every day, and would take his tie off as soon as he got into the classroom, and hang it on the closet doorknob. He commented several times that the school board required that he wear a tie _to_ school, but hadn't said anything about having to continue wearing it once he got there. He was a farmer as well as a school teacher, and had heavily callused hands, which was good because his classroom had wasps living in the walls. During my four years of attending that high school, they never succeeded in killing all of the wasps (the building has since been replaced, which presumably solved the problem). Mr. Wise's calluses were heavy enough that he could kill a wasp with his fingers without it being able to sting him. Several of the students tried to do this, and got stung. Oh, and if you talked during class, he would bounce a chalkboard eraser off your head. If any teacher tried that these days, he would probably end up being sued. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use http://www.pgp.com iQA/AwUBQGo1ejMYPge5L34aEQJG3wCgsEQWyrpuV/d6AKfqPDnaBTEF7bsAoKmk 9LS9st0u4tSC2TQoUVZ6Z3cp =B+6I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- John F. Eldredge -- PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria |
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On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 22:13:52 GMT, Tanada wrote:
David Yehudah wrote: That's when I had my first heart attack. They carried me out of the classroom on a stretcher into a waiting ambulance, and the kids were celebrating. The little b*ggers were probably already planning the grief they were going to give the sub. I hope they gave the kids grief instead. You made them work, Dave, and some kids are totally lazy no matter what you do. My first year as a sub, I covered Spanish (of which I speak nada) at a year around school, for seven weeks. The original teacher had to quit the second week of school due to family illness, and none of the subs they had lasted longer than a week. I told the kids that there were several ways I'd leave them. On a stretcher, by getting fired, or when they finally got a good replacement who was going to finish out the year. The third replacement teacher they brought in was from Costa Rica and on an international teacher's exchange. In short, she couldn't quit. I went back to working for different teachers at that school as well as others. The students celebrated when they learned that the new teacher would be taking over the next day. I was too mean, and had made them work (I was usually one lesson ahead of them) and was harder than was fair. This doesn't really relate, but reminds me of the Latin teacher I had. I don't know how many languages he spoke, but it really impressed us that he wrote our textbook. He also went over to one of the other high schools to teach Latin there. Anyway, he had a heart attack and died in the classroom (not duing my class, thank goodness). At first they just had other language teachers come in on their free periods. BORING, just sort of a study hall where we translated stuff out of the text book. Then they brought in a young teacher, who pretty much did what it sounds like you did. She stayed a couple lessons ahead of us, and the class. The classes were fun, as she made an effort to make it fun. They never did find anyone qualified to teach Latin, so it was dropped. The Costa Rican teacher had a fit when she learned that she couldn't use corporeal punishment on those who acted up, tried to turn the creative writing class into a spanish creative writing class, and was able to work with difficulty with the students. A month or so later I was working at the same school for another teacher. A bunch of kids came up to me during the course of the day and told me that they really wished I was back there teaching the class. Not only couldn't they understand what she was saying, but she was making them work harder than I had, had given most of them detention, and had failed most of them on a test she'd given because they couldn't spell the words correctly. I just smiled. One of the students told me that I was strict but fair, and that the new teacher wasn't fair, just strict. Pam S. -- Steve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Rocky [remove Junk for email] Home Page: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/index.html Cat Pix: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/animals.html |
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In message , Kreisleriana
writes On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 18:32:18 +0100, Cathi yodeled: In message , Adrian writes Cathi wrote: Anyone else get ticked off if their name is shortened beyond where they would care to shorten it? Example: My name is Catherine. I choose to be known as Cathi in common parlance (although family have always called me Katie). But I don't choose to be known as Cath.. *Particularly* with the Estuary English "pronunciation", which is a long "a", and a double "f" at the end :"Caaaaaff" It just sounds lazy and sloppy. I had one co-worker who would always remember half-way through using it, so it would come out as"*Caaaaff*-i" For heaven's sake - I'm a human being, not a greasy spoon diner as immortalised in EastEnders! Would Cat be OK? ;-) :-D I use the nickname "Catsmeat" on a number of talkboards, and get a fair number of variations on that, including Cat, Catz and Catsy. OMG are you a Wodehouse fan? Not really ... but the friend's mother who gave me the nickname was! I have utterly no idea why she started calling me Catsmeat but the nickname stuck (both her daughters refer to me as such), so I took it as a handle for talkboards. -- Cathi |
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Kreisleriana wrote in message . ..
OMG are you a Wodehouse fan? Theresa alt.tv.frasier FAQ: http://www.im-listening.net/FAQ/ Is there anyone who isn't? ------ Krista Who can't imagine such a thing |
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Kinky! I like that.
Kinky and Dave... automatic thinking of them in the same sentence to be sure. Cheers, helen s ;-) --This is an invalid email address to avoid spam-- to get correct one remove fame & fortune **$om $ --Due to financial crisis the light at the end of the tunnel is switched off-- |
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John F. Eldredge wrote:
The math teacher at my high school was a bit eccentric. Only one math teacher? You must have gone to a small school! ...would take his tie off as soon as he got into the classroom, and hang it on the closet doorknob. He commented several times that the school board required that he wear a tie _to_ school, but hadn't said anything about having to continue wearing it once he got there. LOL, that's following the letter of the law, if not the spirit. Oh, and if you talked during class, he would bounce a chalkboard eraser off your head. If any teacher tried that these days, he would probably end up being sued. I'm no fan of frivolous litigation, but in this case, I hope he would be! Joyce |
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On 30 Mar 2004 21:36:10 -0800, (LOL)
yodeled: Kreisleriana wrote in message . .. OMG are you a Wodehouse fan? Theresa alt.tv.frasier FAQ: http://www.im-listening.net/FAQ/ Is there anyone who isn't? ------ Krista Who can't imagine such a thing Only those who haven't read them yet, old bean. Theresa alt.tv.frasier FAQ: http://www.im-listening.net/FAQ/ Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful. (Aldous Huxley) |
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As a sincerely meant compliment, Joyce......you're younger than you think
you are. My sixth-grade teacher (female) used to whack misbehavers, male or female, with a short rubber hose (no marks)and the principal had a famous "wooden paddle" used on backsides of those sent to her office. I never underwent either punishment personally. My little brother went to parochial school, where the teachers whacked misbehavers w/ wooden rulers. No parent would dream of protesting such discipline, much less sueing. This was FL, still famous for regarding citizens' offspring as chattel, human-rights-wise. wrote in message ... : John F. Eldredge wrote: : : The math teacher at my high school was a bit eccentric. : : Only one math teacher? You must have gone to a small school! : : ...would take his tie off as soon as : he got into the classroom, and hang it on the closet doorknob. He : commented several times that the school board required that he wear a : tie _to_ school, but hadn't said anything about having to continue : wearing it once he got there. : : LOL, that's following the letter of the law, if not the spirit. : : Oh, and if you talked during class, he would bounce a chalkboard : eraser off your head. If any teacher tried that these days, he would : probably end up being sued. : : I'm no fan of frivolous litigation, but in this case, I hope he would be! : : Joyce |
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wrote in message ... Jette Goldie wrote: Oh thanks - I'm flying on Sunday too! And I have to take two planes ..... one from Glasgow to Newark and one from Newark to Orlando. You're going to Florida on Sunday? So am I. This will be the first time I've flown in about 2 years - I'm nervous. I've always had a fear of flying, but when I do it frequently, I sort of get used to it. Not at all afraid of flying - but I don't always like the *landings*, especially when you're in a smaller plane, coming in to the airport over water (lots of turbulance that way) Been two years since I was last able to afford to fly anywhere too - and I can't really afford this, but I am determined to enjoy the vacation! Also, I'm going to see some family members that I don't have the best relationship with, so I'm pretty nervous about that, too. Going with hubby - first vacation we've taken together for some years, and he's like "but there's NOTHING TO DO in Florida!!" (fcuk that - I'm actually looking forward to driving on the wrong side of the road and in an automatic transmission car) We've got one week in Orlando, a two night cruise to Nassau and then one week in Fort Lauderdale. There'll be no shortage of cats, though! Ah, but my babies will be staying home, in the care of their Auntie Linda (my downstairs neighbour). I'll miss them - but I won't miss Dakota parading across my head at 1am because he can't decide which part of the bed is more comfortable. -- Jette Goldie Apache and Dakota http://www.jette.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/kitties.html |
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