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

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Mary Tegel
hands on impresario
Tegel Design + Planning
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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
>>
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>> Keep it up Mary. You're on a role.
>>
>> Sign me,
>> dan you can see a lot by observing berra
>>
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