Oh yeah, the other thing was the guys that were taking shop in hi were the
coolest, said fuck around their parents and got away with it, and were about
the only ones getting laid.
j


> From: JIM HICKS <[log in to unmask]>
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> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 06:43:50 -0400
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> Subject: Re: [BP] rivets -- i want to learn about rivets
> 
> It took me 4.5 yrs + one class at night (typing) to get thru hi school.
> I didn't fail classes so much but kept cutting and going to Palm Springs for
> a cuppla days so I didn't get credit for those classes.
> The best (and only) thing I learned in hi was typing.
> jim
> 
> 
>> From: Mary <[log in to unmask]>
>> Reply-To: The listserv where the buildings do the talking
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>> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:34:29 -0700
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Re: [BP] rivets -- i want to learn about rivets
>> 
>> Because folks have shared childhood learning experiences, here's one of
>> mine (although I did have similar epiphanies and clandestine
>> wanderings and borrowings -- none of which involved kitchen stuff--
>> which might explain how enlightening this particular experience was.
>> 
>> So, in the beginning high school, I was drooling at the prospect of
>> electives after eight years of Catholic school. I signed up for shop.
>> The high school counsellor/advisor changed it to typing. And I thought
>> she was my friend. Girls don't take shop and girls need to know how to
>> type.
>> 
>> Our typing teacher resembled the front end of some of the cars that
>> were in vogue-- huge conical frontality-- and it was boring, even as
>> she was not a bad person.  This was only partially mitigated by the
>> intriguing discovery that typewriter keys had No Letters, Symbols or
>> Numbers. Remember, it was called touch-typing. Miss Bumper strolled
>> around swatting us with her ruler and told us we'd fail as secretaries
>> if we did not learn how to type. I flunked on purpose (who wanted to
>> be a secretary especially if it entailed armoring our body parts?).
>> This ought to explain my typograghical errors. They are knot
>> intenshunal and I mean no disrespect.
>> 
>> Signed unrepentant,
>> 
>> Mary V
>> 
>> ----------------------------------
>> Mary Tegel
>> hands on impresario
>> Tegel Design + Planning
>> ----------------------------------
>> 
>> On Apr 26, 2010, at 5:35 PM, Dave Follett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> 
>>> forbotten
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Cuyler Page <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>> Just heard a nice CBC radio program about the new language youth are
>>>> creating for themselves (and have ever so done in our era).
>>>> Perhaps this is
>>>> what is happening on BP.   Thingking seems ever mire berra.
>>>> 
>>>> cp
>>>> 
>>>> -------------------------------------
>>>> Keep it up Mary. You're on a role.
>>>> 
>>>> Sign me,
>>>> dan you can see a lot by observing berra
>>>> 
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