General discussion - Mom and Dad Esq.

[Penske 2.0]

Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)

This is the worst new software upgrade since Vista.

Still working out the kinks []

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally Posted by Penske 2.0

Still working out the kinks []

Please issue a bug fix ASAP. It's totally unstable.

[Penske 2.0]

Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)

Please issue a bug fix ASAP. It's totally unstable.

Speaking of which, does anyone else have issues with the Daily Beast's app for the iPhone?

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Penske 2.0

Speaking of which, does anyone else have issues with the Daily Beast's app for the iPhone?

Not I.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

We have just gotten the enormous list of supplies required for our child's class in September (will all that stuff fit in his desk?), and I have a complaint. I file it here because no one would bother with it elsewhere.

The teacher specifically requests two packages #2 Dixon-Ticonderoga pencils. Now, I have nothing against #2 pencils, but I buy my pencils in bulk from the art supply store, mostly Faber Castells and Generals, because the last thing anyone needs are crappy pencils. Indeed, my son usually prefers the Generals woodless, which are not cheap but do a much better job than a Dixon-Ticonderoga ever would.

I also hand them out sparingly. A kid should learn to keep their pencils, especially when they are good ones. TWO WHOLE PACKAGES! This encourages profligacy. That's pencil craziness.

It's like people just don't appreciate good writing implements any more. I will make sure my son always has a couple of Faber Castells and a Generals woodless, but nothing more and nothing lesser. Should I paint them yellow to make the teacher happy?

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

We have just gotten the enormous list of supplies required for our child's class in September (will all that stuff fit in his desk?), and I have a complaint. I file it here because no one would bother with it elsewhere.

The teacher specifically requests two packages #2 Dixon-Ticonderoga pencils. Now, I have nothing against #2 pencils, but I buy my pencils in bulk from the art supply store, mostly Faber Castells and Generals, because the last thing anyone needs are crappy pencils. Indeed, my son usually prefers the Generals woodless, which are not cheap but do a much better job than a Dixon-Ticonderoga ever would.

I also hand them out sparingly. A kid should learn to keep their pencils, especially when they are good ones. TWO WHOLE PACKAGES! This encourages profligacy. That's pencil craziness.

It's like people just don't appreciate good writing implements any more. I will make sure my son always has a couple of Faber Castells and a Generals woodless, but nothing more and nothing lesser. Should I paint them yellow to make the teacher happy?

Your firm must be hurting to be worried about pencil profligacy.

But a propos of this, when I was in fifth grade I went to a school where for the outrageous tuition they threw in "free" pencils. You got one at a time. There was a "pencil graveyard" where you could "bury" your old pencil when it got short, and you were issued a reincarnated pencil that was nice and long. As you might imagine a competition ensued to have the shortest pencil possible. People were grinding their fingers in the pencil sharpener so that they could turn in nothing more than an eraser, metal band, and wood/graphite point.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)

Your firm must be hurting to be worried about pencil profligacy.

But a propos of this, when I was in fifth grade I went to a school where for the outrageous tuition they threw in "free" pencils. You got one at a time. There was a "pencil graveyard" where you could "bury" your old pencil when it got short, and you were issued a reincarnated pencil that was nice and long. As you might imagine a competition ensued to have the shortest pencil possible. People were grinding their fingers in the pencil sharpener so that they could turn in nothing more than an eraser, metal band, and wood/graphite point.

But were they good pencils?

Probably not, if they had an eraser attached by a metal band. Don't get me going on bad erasers.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)

"pencil graveyard" where you could "bury" your old pencil when it got short,

in law school ifound a pencil with the lord's prayer in a gutter. it became my exam pencil- by the last term it was 2 inches long. All that was left was:



Our Father, w

Hallowed be t

thy kingdom

on earth as i

give us this d

and forgive us

as we forgive

and lead us not

but deliver us




AMEN

but the magic still flowed

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

But were they good pencils?

Probably not, if they had an eraser attached by a metal band. Don't get me going on bad erasers.

#2 Dixon-Ticonderoga. School standard for years. There may have been some others, but these were standard issue.



Some of the erasers broke off. But we also got those standard pink ones, and plenty of the eraser wigs.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

in law school ifound a pencil with the lord's prayer in a gutter. it became my exam pencil- by the last term it was 2 inches long. All that was left was:



Our Father, w

Hallowed be t

thy kingdom

on earth as i

give us this d

and forgive us

as we forgive

and lead us not

but deliver us




AMEN

but the magic still flowed

That's a lot to fit on a pencil. Why hasn't some enterprising company figured out how to put the UCC or the Rule against Perpetuities on a pencil? You know, for, um, reference.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)

That's a lot to fit on a pencil. Why hasn't some enterprising company figured out how to put the UCC or the Rule against Perpetuities on a pencil? You know, for, um, reference.

word. plus under obama-care probably it'd be illegal now to just put the one prayer like you'd need to add the bhagdava gitas and those Jew broken-toe things.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)

#2 Dixon-Ticonderoga. School standard for years. There may have been some others, but these were standard issue.



Some of the erasers broke off. But we also got those standard pink ones, and plenty of the eraser wigs.

Scratchy pencils with uneven lines and little eraser bits all over your torn gray paper. I'll bet they gave you lousy paper, too, and bic pens.

This is why kids can't doodle for shit any more.

[Cletus Miller]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

We have just gotten the enormous list of supplies required for our child's class in September (will all that stuff fit in his desk?), and I have a complaint. I file it here because no one would bother with it elsewhere.

The teacher specifically requests two packages #2 Dixon-Ticonderoga pencils. Now, I have nothing against #2 pencils, but I buy my pencils in bulk from the art supply store, mostly Faber Castells and Generals, because the last thing anyone needs are crappy pencils. Indeed, my son usually prefers the Generals woodless, which are not cheap but do a much better job than a Dixon-Ticonderoga ever would.

I also hand them out sparingly. A kid should learn to keep their pencils, especially when they are good ones. TWO WHOLE PACKAGES! This encourages profligacy. That's pencil craziness.

It's like people just don't appreciate good writing implements any more. I will make sure my son always has a couple of Faber Castells and a Generals woodless, but nothing more and nothing lesser. Should I paint them yellow to make the teacher happy?

Standard pencils so no one worries whose pencil is whose. Otherwise, the teacher would probably request that you put kid's name on every pencil.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally Posted by Cletus Miller

Standard pencils so no one worries whose pencil is whose. Otherwise, the teacher would probably request that you put kid's name on every pencil.

Easily solved with tooth marks.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

Scratchy pencils with uneven lines and little eraser bits all over your torn gray paper. I'll bet they gave you lousy paper, too, and bic pens.

This is why kids can't doodle for shit any more.

No pens. Colored pencils.