Awww, a coworker just came by with his daughter and 7-week-old granddaughter to show her off. Such an adorable baby!
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kathy A - Sep 15, 2011 10:08:15 am PDT #26425 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Atropa - Sep 15, 2011 10:09:02 am PDT #26426 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Plei, look at Pyramid Collection. [link]
Tom Scola - Sep 15, 2011 10:09:05 am PDT #26427 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I was at RIT, which has a deaf school: [link]
I was very aware of what was happening. There was a very large population of deaf students on college at the time, because of a rubella epidemic in the 1960s.
Toddson - Sep 15, 2011 10:10:24 am PDT #26428 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
bah! you kids! get offa my lawn! I graduated from COLLEGE in 1974.
Liese S. - Sep 15, 2011 10:10:37 am PDT #26429 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
92. For the record.
Mah sistah!
Sophia Brooks - Sep 15, 2011 10:13:14 am PDT #26430 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I am one year older than Liese and Plei- I graduated in 1991.
Sue - Sep 15, 2011 10:13:42 am PDT #26431 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Plei, does it need to be black?
Frankenbuddha - Sep 15, 2011 10:14:56 am PDT #26432 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I graduated high school that year. Jebus.
I graduated college that year...
I graduated from COLLEGE in 1974.
...and yet suddenly feeling not-so-old, however briefly.
Hil R. - Sep 15, 2011 10:15:10 am PDT #26433 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I was 7 in 1988. I think that was when I started learning ASL, coincidentally, since there was a deaf girl in my Brownie troop.
le nubian - Sep 15, 2011 10:15:37 am PDT #26434 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Hil,
I do not believe most people remember that protest and it certainly does not inform how most hearing people view the Deaf community. In answer to your question. I know it because it is in my area of work, broadly speaking. But I probably am aware of many student protests all over the country for other reasons.
I have to say that the things that have made a greater impact on me as a hearing person, mostly have to do with popular media: I read a fair amount of books on the topic when I was an adolescent, CSI's eps dealing with the Deaf community, PBS programming, there was a decent British miniseries on the topic, etc.