LOL Fridays

Posted by khalling 11 years, 1 month ago to Entertainment
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 11 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Indeed, I laughed heartily. One in particular about school being hell rung a bell. It is almost as hilarious as the answer a colleague of mine saw once on a General Chemistry test regarding Boyle's Law.

    http://www.snopes.com/college/exam/hell....

    Part of the student's answer included a variant of the usual answer regarding hell listed on the above web site saying that
    "hell must be exothermic because a girl he'd been chasing had sworn it'd be a cold day in hell before she'd sleep with him, and he'd so far been unable to get to first base with her." Of course, the student who turned in the exam said that since he had recently hit a home run with the girl that hell must have completely frozen over. Therefore, ...
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 11 years, 1 month ago
    Friday is the day I usually write letters of recommendation and put together most of weekly newsletter (mostly jobs, but a lot of tech news, too). I guess that all of that is part of my Shrug job as career services coordinator instead of being solely what most people who would expect most professors would do.
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  • Posted by mckenziecalhoun 11 years, 1 month ago
    In a class where children are encouraged to be creative, they put the "expected" answer AND write the funny answer.

    It really doesn't take that much more effort from from a teacher who actually gives a darn. Did it for decades. Encourage it in your own kids, but NOT in class - know your teacher, first, just in case.
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  • Posted by johnpe1 11 years, 1 month ago
    Thank You, Thank You, Thank You! It wasn't that easy when I joined mensa!
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    From the district that I'm running in. To be fair, this was held on a Friday night, in the southern part of the county (my district is in the northern part), where there are 3 highly contested district races. That said, there were only 22 people in attendance, including about 6 ladies from the League of Women Voters who sponsored the event. So, no, not an overwhelming crowd.

    Generally, we're a pretty well run county. We have been ranked in the top 5 best places to raise a family for several years (number 2 this year). So most people are rather content with county government. Still, too many are willing to have government control more than it should. Just in the past month the only taxi service in the county went out of business. The county runs it's own taxi service. Was the competition from the "ride share" county service the only reason that the private business went under? Probably not, but it sure didn't help. The answer from most of the other candidates was - it's revenue neutral to the county and receives 60% of its costs from federal and other grants, so not a problem. They don't seem to recognize that whether the funding is coming from the right pocket or the left, it is still coming from the taxpayer - with a significant cost of bureaucracy taken out along the way. I would rather the full costs be borne by the county, at least that way we would cut out feeding the looters in DC.
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  • Posted by Ranter 11 years, 1 month ago
    Friday is the day I realize I still have a week's work ahead of me before I can take the weekend off.
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  • Posted by $ Susanne 11 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    A cross between a touring car and a limo, usually lower slung and 7-9 passengers... Now... there's one I never considered... a buggy! That would be cool to get in the back seat of. (never you mind the Amish connotations! –giggles--)

    An old family friend (RIP Barney) had a Doble, got to ride in it a few times (and he'd let me crawl all around it as well - its all his fault I ended up a Girl Engineer in the making!!); it was one major set of events that got me interested in engineering stuff as a kid and changed my life irreparably - I remember, since I was about 14 or so, wanting to design and build a modern vehicle using his system. When I think how I coulda been a boring housewife... Yiiii!!!!
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Thanks for the thought. I think I've got it pretty well under control. The only issue is if my opponent can get a huge turnout from a very small and generally (at least by voter roles) un-engaged part of the district.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Well, it's over. You can see my response to Susanne above. I'm definitely not in this to control others - I want to reduce county gov't to the min absolutely necessary, then get out of it.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Besides my opponent, not a single voter from the district. And with the election next Tues, no press either, since they publish on/after the election. So, that gave me a lot of flexibility to speak my mind freely. The others basically came across as "I'll spend your money wisely", while I said basically that I don't want your money to spend, it is yours, you should keep it.
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  • Posted by khalling 11 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    I'm busy looking stuff up. completely familiar with pierce arrows and my dad has like 20 hood ornaments, but the only phaetons I know were high strung and pulled by horses...;)
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  • Posted by $ Susanne 11 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Knowing I'm an old car nut... Packard double windshield Touring Phaeton from the late 20's to mid 30's (opulence and open air) or a Doble (you may have to look it up), same era, same configuration (one known)... Maybe I'd "slum" to a Pierce Arrow limo or a "5 series" Mercedes Kompressor (540K for example). Seriously - once bitten by *that* bug its impossible to shake off. (and once you've, um, "snuggled" in the back of a Packard, everything else is just too small or too plain jane...)

    Something more modern? How about a late 60's Hemi GTO... or a 59 or 60 Cadillac, either one in the ragtop version. I *guess* I could be seen in one of those! --lol--
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