Wait, Zaire isn't a country anymore? Well, crap, I'm so behind...
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meara - Feb 07, 2003 9:18:52 am PST #1822 of 9843
billytea - Feb 07, 2003 9:40:02 am PST #1823 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Wait, Zaire isn't a country anymore? Well, crap, I'm so behind...
They changed the name in 1997 when Laurent Kabila (the father of the current president) seized power from Mobutu (who had changed its name from Congo to Zaïre in 1971). Sort of an out with the old, in with the older deal.
Hil R. - Feb 07, 2003 9:44:30 am PST #1824 of 9843
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I always got all confused with geography because in my high school, they didn't seem to have much of a map budget, so the big maps in the classrooms were replaced one at a time, and not terribly often, so every classroom had maps from different years showing different country names and borders. My tenth grade history teacher went into a rant about this when he realized that the map in our classroom still showed Rhodesia. (My school cut the budget in weird places. The bells and the intercom broke at the same time, and it was decided that they could only replace one, so they replaced the intercom, and broadcast a recording of church bells over it when it was time to change classes.)
billytea - Feb 07, 2003 9:45:37 am PST #1825 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
(My school cut the budget in weird places. The bells and the intercom broke at the same time, and it was decided that they could only replace one, so they replaced the intercom, and broadcast a recording of church bells over it when it was time to change classes.)
Hee. That's actually quite clever.
Jesse - Feb 07, 2003 9:46:59 am PST #1826 of 9843
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
At my high school they played music to signal time to change classes. Sometimes kids picked the music, sometimes staff did, and it was kind of fun.
Hil R. - Feb 07, 2003 9:48:26 am PST #1827 of 9843
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
The only problem was that you could only hear the bells if you were somewhere that had an intercom. So you couldn't hear the bell if you were outside, or in the bathroom, or in a crowded hallway.
billytea - Feb 07, 2003 9:49:25 am PST #1828 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
The only problem was that you could only hear the bells if you were somewhere that had an intercom. So you couldn't hear the bell if you were outside, or in the bathroom, or in a crowded hallway.
That's when the herd mentality comes in handy. Er. Except maybe in the bathroom.
bon bon - Feb 07, 2003 9:50:27 am PST #1829 of 9843
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I always got all confused with geography because in my high school, they didn't seem to have much of a map budget, so the big maps in the classrooms were replaced one at a time, and not terribly often, so every classroom had maps from different years showing different country names and borders.
I imagine anyone who went to school between 1989-1999 got kind of screwed, mapwise.
Susan W. - Feb 07, 2003 9:52:53 am PST #1830 of 9843
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
From my more conservative Christian days in college, a bunch of us used to use this book called "Operation World" in our prayer meetings that had you pray for every country in the world over the course of a year. (Larger countries got several days.) I have a 1987 edition that I've decided to hang onto just so I can show my hypothetical future children how different the world was when I was growing up.
Hil R. - Feb 07, 2003 9:53:29 am PST #1831 of 9843
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I imagine anyone who went to school between 1989-1999 got kind of screwed, mapwise.
True, but we had some maps that were up to date as of that year, and then others from the sixties, and others from random years in between. There was also one classroom that had a flag with 48 stars. (They built a whole new library and computer room while I was there. They just had trouble with the smaller things.)