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
> <[log in to unmask]>
> 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
> 
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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
>>> 
>>> -------------------------------------
>>> Keep it up Mary. You're on a role.
>>> 
>>> Sign me,
>>> dan you can see a lot by observing berra
>>> 
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