Bizaare Amazon Reviews #238 (Stuart Little):
And Stuart is obviously gay, not that there's anything wrong with that (I'm gay ... check out the illustration on page 31) He doesn't really want to date the girl, he's more interested in his canoe ...
I'm so sorry, but if it makes you feel any better, my fun-time-Buffy party night involved watching a robot throw Spike through a window, so if you want to trade... no wait, I wouldn't give up that memory for anything.
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
flea - Nov 15, 2006 3:53:22 am PST #1577 of 28160
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Strega - Nov 15, 2006 6:52:59 am PST #1578 of 28160
I didn't even know what it was,I don't really know now, though I get the idea from context.
We had It's Academic. Oh, and maybe Knowledge Masters? That sounds familiar, anyway.
But I didn't do any of that stuff, because it would have involved spending more time with my peers.
Jessica - Nov 15, 2006 7:01:30 am PST #1579 of 28160
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
We had It's Academic! I wasn't on our school's team, but we kicked some serious ass. I did go to the finals match my senior year (because it was on local NBC, and we needed a big cheering section in the audience).
P.M. Marc - Nov 15, 2006 7:11:17 am PST #1580 of 28160
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I'm also feeling like the only Buffista who wasn't in AD, but if my school or state had had it, I would've been! Really!
We didn't have it! Just Knowledge Bowl.
We had a large trophy that didn't quite fit right in the I.B. breakroom.
Flea, do you read her the Winnie the Pooh books?
Hil R. - Nov 15, 2006 7:24:57 am PST #1581 of 28160
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
We had Academic Decathlon. I think it started my junior year. Anyway, I remember themes being Global Economy and Technology. Books as Jane Eyre and Remains of the Day and Siddhartha. Not sure what years those all correspond to. We never made it to states -- we were always scrounging for team members, and usually ended up with about four people who actually studied, and five who filled seats.
brenda m - Nov 15, 2006 7:29:32 am PST #1582 of 28160
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Ooh, I forgot about Knowledge Master. Fun!
We never made it to states -- we were always scrounging for team members, and usually ended up with about four people who actually studied, and five who filled seats.
Heh, that's what was so brilliant about Ac Dec. Since the team had to have people with a range of GPAs, slackers like me were like a secret weapon.
Hil R. - Nov 15, 2006 7:34:01 am PST #1583 of 28160
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Yeah, that's where I did really well. My grades weren't great, but I had fun with Ac Dec and did really well on those tests. (Well, except for speech and interview, where I was generally the lowest-scoring of the native English speakers.) But we had a pretty small school, and there just weren't nine kids that we could find to put in the effort.
Volans - Nov 15, 2006 7:35:59 am PST #1584 of 28160
move out and draw fire
in the I.B. breakroom
I'd never even heard of I.B. until I started teaching at a school that participated and had to help prep students.
Polter-Cow - Nov 15, 2006 7:50:07 am PST #1585 of 28160
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Anyway, I remember themes being Global Economy and Technology. Books as Jane Eyre and Remains of the Day and Siddhartha. Not sure what years those all correspond to.
1998 and 1999, as those were my years!
Since the team had to have people with a range of GPAs, slackers like me were like a secret weapon.
Heh, yeah, we had one really great C student who also did a lot of Math/Science team stuff.
Hil R. - Nov 15, 2006 7:57:12 am PST #1586 of 28160
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
1998 and 1999, as those were my years!
That would be my junior and senior years, then. So my memory hasn't totally gone.
Heh, yeah, we had one really great C student who also did a lot of Math/Science team stuff.
At my school, that was me.