General discussion - Mom and Dad Esq.

[Cletus Miller]

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

Easily solved with tooth marks.

Need dental impressions for every kid, for identification purposes. Throw those in for "free", too.

I love all the "free" technology equipment various colleges are "providing" to freshmen. If the school administration really thinks that kids are that dumb, should they actually want them enrolling in their school?

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

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.

Great. Uniform mediocrity. Is that what we want to teach kids?

Tools are important, and if they were less profligate with their pencils, they could have good ones instead.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

Great. Uniform mediocrity. Is that what we want to teach kids?

Tools are important, and if they were less profligate with their pencils, they could have good ones instead.

my daughter has like 200 pictures on the FB from college- 0 have a pencil or other school tool in her hand. 167 have alcohol containers

[Cletus Miller]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

Great. Uniform mediocrity. Is that what we want to teach kids?

Tools are important, and if they were less profligate with their pencils, they could have good ones instead.

Offer to buy good pencils for the whole class then. But subject to your allocation rules.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Cletus Miller

Offer to buy good pencils for the whole class then. But subject to your allocation rules.

I would happily provide the schools with some quality writing supplies (their art department already has a darkroom and a large supply of canvas, oils and mediums from us, as well as a bunch of great matting supplies and paper and chemicals we got when our favorite photo supply store went out of business), but I don't know that everyone would prefer woodless. I generally user the Faber-Castell's, for example, though my son prefers the woodless.

Maybe putting up with uniformity is ok if we get rid of mediocrity, but why have either? Are we not men?

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

my daughter has like 200 pictures on the FB from college- 0 have a pencil or other school tool in her hand. 167 have alcohol containers

Old Swill or good stuff?

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

I would happily provide the schools with some quality writing supplies (their art department already has a darkroom and a large supply of canvas, oils and mediums from us, as well as a bunch of great matting supplies and paper and chemicals we got when our favorite photo supply store went out of business), but I don't know that everyone would prefer woodless. I generally user the Faber-Castell's, for example, though my son prefers the woodless.

Maybe putting up with uniformity is ok if we get rid of mediocrity, but why have either? Are we not men?

I've frequently been half of a discussion in which one of the participants is faking earnestness, but this is a new low.

[Cletus Miller]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

I've frequently been half of a discussion in which one of the participants is faking earnestness, but this is a new low.

You can tell when someone is falsely earnest? Or do people regularly tell you they were faking to extract themselves from the conversation?

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally Posted by Cletus Miller

You can tell when someone is falsely earnest? Or do people regularly tell you they were faking to extract themselves from the conversation?

Whiff. It's almost always me.

ETA It occurs to me this is not a genuine according-to-Hoyle whiff, but rather the general missed-the-point-but-didn't-attempt-the-exact-same-joke kind of post that I've often deplored being called a whiff because it dilutes the "whiff" metaphor. My apologies to Cletus.

[Cletus Miller]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

Whiff. It's almost always me.

So, you aren't actually a religious-history pedant?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

Whiff. It's almost always me.

ETA It occurs to me this is not a genuine according-to-Hoyle whiff, but rather the general missed-the-point-but-didn't-attempt-the-exact-same-joke kind of post that I've often deplored being called a whiff because it dilutes the "whiff" metaphor. My apologies to Cletus.

i beg to differ. he started on the joke, such as it was. the better defense is that in a "you shouldn't call a fat person fat" way, I'm not sure any here should laugh at your joke about how people patronize you with feigned interest?

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

I've frequently been half of a discussion in which one of the participants is faking earnestness, but this is a new low.

Hey, I began the whole thing by noting that I filed the complaint here because no one else would bother with it. I'm still amazed anyone cared enough to respond.

I am a pencil afficiando. No, I am not surprised that people find this strange.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Cletus Miller

So, you aren't actually a religious-history pedant?

Come now. The guy actually likes Karen Armstrong. He can't know that much religious history.

[Fugee]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

Hey, I began the whole thing by noting that I filed the complaint here because no one else would bother with it. I'm still amazed anyone cared enough to respond.

I am a pencil afficiando. No, I am not surprised that people find this strange.

I prefer the Mirado Black Warrior.

[Penske 2.0]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

Hey, I began the whole thing by noting that I filed the complaint here because no one else would bother with it. I'm still amazed anyone cared enough to respond.

I am a pencil afficiando. No, I am not surprised that people find this strange.

I don't like pencils, no offence. I am pen person.