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.

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.)

That's when the herd mentality comes in handy. Er. Except maybe in the bathroom.

You've obviously never been in the girls' bathroom at a high school, if you think there's no herd mentality in force there.

You've obviously never been in the girls' bathroom at a high school, if you think there's no herd mentality in force there.

None that's getting you back to class when the bell, er, plays over the intercom.

Our school was neat and all, but we never had any such things as an intercom, or even lockers. The bell was just lots of little clanger things but they were LOUD!

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.

I used to have that book! (Don't ask me why.) I remember the entry for the US said something like "Since the election of President Reagan, there has been a great resurgence of confidence and morality in the USA."

Just checked EBroadcast.com.au and Buffy and Angel are listed for next Tuesday and Wednesday night respectively, in Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth. They're on a day earlier in Brisbane and Sydney. All are being screened at 10:30PM.

EBroadcast have also put together this neat little Buffy Buyers Guide.

I really like the Buffy cars they have listed, though it's a shame they got Xander's car wrong. The Chevy he drove in "The Zeppo" was green and white, not red.

*adding more shit to his list of shit to buy soon*

FWIW, I used to work in a school library and had the grat joy of removing and discarding a book published in 1936 about Barbary pirates. Let us simply say that the maps of modern Africa were very confusing, and not mention the general aspersions cast on the character of all Africans.

This was also the library which was struggling to go from card catalogue to computer, a problem compounded by the last 30 years of US cultural history. Because it is a school dedicated to diversity in collection, the card catalogue had subject headings for literature under AFRO-AMERICAN, AFRICAN-AMERICAN, BLACK, BLACK AMERICAN, and a few doughty frayed titles under NEGRO. Each term having been politic and polite at one point in the past 50 years.

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.

::shudder:: Thanks for the freak-ass church flashback. Cause we did this.