> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ralph Walter
> Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 11:56 PM
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> Subject: Re: Cross-post for Ruth, since she's down on birds ....
>
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> In a message dated 4/19/2000 1:46:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> writes:
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> <<  Mrs. Oxley still gives me nightmares. >>
>
>
> What happens to ][<en when she gives Shaman nightmares?  My first grade
> teacher (Mrs. Linnes) was very likely the best teacher I ever had, even
> though she thought (and said out loud)  that I should know the plural of
> "ox."

My fourth grade teacher, Miss Matera, was the first (and only) teacher that
I had a crush on.  Boy, she was a looker.  But I guess I wasn't her type,
nothing ever came of it.

Of course, given that I attended a Catholic elementary school populated in
the teaching ranks primarily by Sisters of Mercy, my opportunities for such
wee fantasies were a bit limited.

But they never could make me cry (for real); they were all a bit frail.
When the ruler would finally land across the back of our hands (after an
excruciatingly slow wobbly arc through space) in punishment for some awful
infraction like tying Tom Hytenhove's shoelaces together under his desk, we
would let out a blood-curdling howl, and they would ask us with great
concern "Are you all right?", and the punishment would be terminated.

Much later on, the architectural crits that I received in which the critic
reamed me out, I deserved.  But I didn't cry about those either.
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