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Comments: The grade school principal was a scary authority figure. I'm not sure he ever ate lunch. I thought he probably ate little kids. haaaa.
Comments: Ben A Matthews was a High School Principal...a grade school principal is a waaaaaaaaaaaaay different thing....like 10 years different. And yes, I can imagine a grade school principal eating with the kids....the kids are still young enough to look up to the Principal and teachers. Um, at least I think they are. I don't remember much about Ben except his bad breath from smoking, but I have girl friends...ahem...that have stories to tell about him from high school...I just remember Mr Quast (that cutie)..and how he always reprimanded SueZan Reedy and me for not being good sports in the assemblys ...oh, that is another story!
Comments: My mother and Virginia Aday were friends. I really liked Steve. They came to our house and probably visa versa, too. So many years ago... Really nice people..
Comments: Just opened the obits and the first one is Virginia Hightower Aday, Steve Aday's mom. Funeral is tomorrow at noon at Laurel Land.
Comments: Public school today is very different from what I remember. We know a grade school principal who called 911 because a kindergarten girl was destroying her office and she dare not touch her. This principal eats lunch at a table with the students in the cafeteria every day. I can't imagine Ben A. Matthews plopping down at a table in the lunchroom and unwrapping a sandwich.
Comments: Yes, Ken, it was the episode with the contaminated cutting board. Yuck. And, I agree, Diner's Drive-In's and Dives is my favorite. Guy Fieri just makes that show fun to watch. The other show that I like to watch if I get home early from work, is Cash Cab. Not only entertaining but educational and fun too. I thought this was going to be a football-less weekend, but no, they threw in the College Senior Bowl so we crazies can keep our fix going. Yea!
Comments: Can you imagine a teacher today throwing erasers???? Not, that the kids don't deserve it, but he or she would be fired, sued, hung out to dry, etc. I think of the hugs I gave and received from my second graders back in the 70s and know I wouldn't be able to touch them like that today. Did that person call that teacher a S E S to her face???? I suppose all ethnic groups have their prejudices. Sounds like something he heard at home too. Kathleen...bullying is anything new is it? That poor teacher just wasn't prepared for Jr High bullies. I can't imagine. However, I remember some of that going on between students at SOC....but nothing that would drive a student to commit suicide as happens today.
Comments: Been a few weeks since I logged in to the site and want to say "Thanks for the Chuckles." As far as Sharon's comment about how she didn't watch the S O U message. Actually I'd rather watch Maury and Jerry Springer reruns. Have a great day everyone.
Comments: We wrote notes in Algebra, in the 9th Grade..Lots of notes..Henry Coomes was in that class, I think Sandra Chancellor/Fant..We didn't harass her other than driving her crazy with our notes.. There was the World History teacher that threw erasers at us when we talked.. SOC... Ms. Yium's class/10th Grade one football player(no name mentioned) called her "Hong Kong Karen and Slant Eyed Slut"..He knows who he is and I was embarrassed and appalled at him because he was in a minority group, too. I will never, never understand that kind of behavior.. 
Comments: I hope Mr. McMullen found a different line of work. My favorite Food Network show is Good Eats. I always learn something from Alton Brown, and I like the characters he comes up with. Sometimes those shows will gross me out with their yucky food handling (and lack of washing) techniques -- like when Rachel Ray knocks dirt off something with a towel, then chops it up and tosses it in the pan. I scrub our produce with Fit Wash. I'm amazed by what comes off grapes. Well, I don't scrub grapes, but I do let them sit in water with Fit Wash. Eeeuw!
Comments: Charlotte, I probably shouldn't mention names but two of the worst offenders were Tommy Ingram and Gary Stresnek (sp). Two people I haven't thought about in ages. Mr. McMullan was young and effeminate in his mannerisms. It was hard for me to believe that this was an honors class. In all the years that I taught or took classes, I always remember the behavior of this class. I have taught some rough classes over the years, but nothing ever came close to what happened in this English class.
Comments: No worries Sharon...nothing new in thuh S O U speech. Same o , same o!!!!!! I can't Buleeev any of our Oak Cliff Thugs could force a teacher out the window and make him cry...IN JR HIGH YET????!!!!!! He must have been no older than we were. Nothing like that LL (Low Life) stuff happened at Storey...for sure...um...well not in the lowly classes where I was....you smart Eagles up in those smarty classes might have been mean enough to do that...I only remember at SOC the guys in my Mr Brown speech class all jumped out the window at a certain time. Mr Brown was not amused (He actually was) and ran around and opened the door to the enclosed square and DEMANDED that they return to class....oh I wish I had been privy to their secret because I would have jumped out too and probably been kick out of speech class and Golden Debs. I never remember tryin to intimidate a teacher for goodness sake.
Comments: Phyllis - Thanks for the name and memories. Poor guy, screaming and crying, not your usual characteristics for a teacher. Wonder whatever happened to him? Reevo - Were you watching the one with the contaminated cutting board and raw chicken? Unreal. I love that show, but not as much as Diners, Drive-Ins, & Dives.
Comments: The President gave a speech last night? I was so wrapped up in Chopped on the Food network, that I completely forgot.
Comments: Phyllis, I was in Mr. McMullan's advanced, honors English class. I remember how horrible some of the boys in our class tortured him everyday. Their goal seemed to be to break him down until he started crying. His class was totally out of control. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be uncommon for teachers of Spanish to give students who speak Spanish a harder time than the rest of their class. I had a friend who told me the biggest mistake she ever made was letting her Spanish teacher (at Richmond) know she spoke Spanish. Her test papers came back with lots of RED ink.[B][/B]
Comments: 2012..Wait and See...Wait and See... It's not just the weather that's weird.. No predictions on anyone..Either party... Those of us that have 'appeared' on this earth since WWII, have seen a lot of changes... I will predict that the 'Kindle' will go the way of the CB radio, however... I still like books.. I remember my mother reading me "Hiawatha', when I was 4..out of a book.. I still love that poem. Not reading it on a Kindle or 'whatever' you want to call it.. Wait and See... Life is never boring.. 
Comments: To Barry Gibbs and Ken Haas: I enter the conversation with trepidation, since we've drifted into -- horrors! -- politics, but your posts brought back memories. The Spanish teacher who threw a fit -- as well as textbooks, erasers, papers, etc. -- every day and ended up getting dangled out the window by his ankles was Claude McMullan. He did give Carlos Cruz an extremely rough time; Carlos was a native speaker of Spanish, but had problems reading and writing it, and with grammar. I may have my "senior" -- oops, I mean "Rick Perry" -- moments, but still recall alot of useless trivia, including every address and phone number I ever had.
Comments: FYI ABC fact checking site: http://news.yahoo.com/state-union-fact-checking-president-022136336--abc-news.html
Comments: Make that "LYNELL IS SWELL".
Comments: Obama is a great speaker and that's all he is. No substance, no positive results, only bigger government, playing golf and taking lavish trips on taxpayer dollars. Just like '08, the Republicans have fielded a weak slate of candidates, but anything would be better than Obama. Just after the '08 election, I got a call from the RNC asking for money. "Not until I see that the RNC can field a true conservative candidate". The caller had the audacity to say that if I thought it was so easy to get good candidates "Why don't you run?" Well, that did it as far as the RNC and I were concerned. Maybe it's time to get out those "Lynelle is swell" bumper stickers! I have been sending a little money to Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona. Check him out.
Comments: I predict that Donald Trump will come into the race as a spoiler as soon as his Celebrity Apprentice TV show ends in April.
Comments: All smoke and mirrors. No substance. Fact Check reamed the President on many of his claims. And I agree with John-Boy. There are NO viable candidates, including the incumbent.
Comments: I agree with Kathleen and Ginger that Mr. Obama is a brilliant speaker. Where it all comes unraveled is in the execution of his lofty vision for the country. Not likely to happen. Without a Congress that is willing to work together, I see 2012 as largely being a repeat of 2011 - with little, if anything, actually being accomplished. Still, near the end of the year Obama will easily stroll into another 4 years since the GOP seems to be its own worst enemy when it comes to fielding a candidate who can unify the required voters.
Comments: Ginger, I thought the President gave a powerful speech. I just hope he follows through with his proposals. It makes me angry the way some Republicans show such little respect for the President. I really hope the American people get rid of those deadbeats in the next election. I also thought the rebuttal speech was pretty good, although I did not agree with some of his comments.
Comments: All in all, a pretty good speech. 2012 should be an 'interesting year'... I'm with John McCain. I'm really tired of all the debates.. 
Comments: It's at times like this, with the Capitol Building packed full of the Washington elite, that my mind drifts back to Tom Clancy's book Executive Orders. Now I'm not saying.....but it sure would be nice on several levels to start all over again.
Comments: John...you forgot...they get off that Merry-go-Round with lifetime full salary and wonderful health insurance.
Comments: In the Real World, the Supercommittee would have all been canned. Unfortunately for us, D.C. is not the real world.
Comments: I'm hoping the speech will conclude with the President asking each of the members of the "Super Committee" to stand up and be recognized for the swell job they did last Fall of sitting on their hands for three months. Washington has become a circus where the elected few get on the merry-go-round, ride for a few years, stuff their pockets, then get off where they got on. While we, the "sheeple" just continue grazing in a shrinking pasture. Baaa. BAAAAAAAA!!
Comments: And, what about Entitlement Party |
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