Okay, let me phrase it more simply...recess is the bit between classes that isn't lunch, right? Before lunch?
Dawn: Are you kidding? Dr. Keiser: I never kid about my amazing surgical skills.
'Bring On The Night'
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.
§ ita § - Apr 19, 2011 5:56:56 pm PDT #4193 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
sarameg - Apr 19, 2011 5:57:09 pm PDT #4194 of 30001
I hated dodgeball and kickball and red rover. I liked playing archeologist/dinosaurist in the dirt and mashing mulberries in dirt pits and making fake pies with mud crusts. And to twist things up, I pretty much bullied the only kid quieter than me into playing with me and totally following my rules. I apologized to Tiffany in high school when I realized what a meanie I was to her, and she totally didn't remember it. And she was a popular cheerleader by then, not in my circle of friends. We both started laughing hysterically.
§ ita § - Apr 19, 2011 5:57:43 pm PDT #4195 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Once you hit middle school, there's lunch and that's it, unless you have a free period.
Huh. I had break all the way through until I was 18. It was very civilised. Five classes in a row would have sucked.
billytea - Apr 19, 2011 5:57:56 pm PDT #4196 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Dinosaur comics addresses the game of Monopoly.
I think he's been reading boardgamegeek.
There's a Fine, Fine Line! (unless that one's just me.)
I think that's my favourite from the show. Probably the one that holds up best out of context.
Liese S. - Apr 19, 2011 6:30:21 pm PDT #4197 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
When I was elementary aged I got in fights at recess. Well, ok, I orchestrated an elaborate system by which I got other kids in fights with each other. There was a lot of running involved. And shifting allegiances.
When I was a little older I wandered around at the playground boundaries composing little emo soliloquies about how no one understood my pain.
DavidS - Apr 19, 2011 6:31:14 pm PDT #4198 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
When I was elementary aged I got in fights at recess. Well, ok, I orchestrated an elaborate system by which I got other kids in fights with each other. There was a lot of running involved. And shifting allegiances.
So...you were like an evil CIA director?
Liese S. - Apr 19, 2011 6:37:04 pm PDT #4199 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I really really was. And like an evil CIA director, I never got busted, even though it was all incited by me and my nemesis. Only our underlings had to do time.
Cashmere - Apr 19, 2011 6:37:51 pm PDT #4200 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
When I was elementary aged I got in fights at recess. Well, ok, I orchestrated an elaborate system by which I got other kids in fights with each other. There was a lot of running involved. And shifting allegiances.
A mini-Mark Burnett.
Trudy Booth - Apr 19, 2011 6:37:51 pm PDT #4201 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
When I was in the fifth grade and stupid enough to wear a button-down shirt without checking the cafeteria menu that day I could end up in a hail of raisins and peanuts as boys tried to throw them down my shirt from every direction.
The aides told me to ignore it and, no, I could not go to the library.
Kat - Apr 19, 2011 6:40:15 pm PDT #4202 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I loved recess. In fact, I still do. But now all of my recesses are spent at the copy machine.
I read the Krakauer knockdown of Mortensen from an AP listserv (English teachers don't mess when it comes to authorial smackdowns).So interesting and meticulously researched. I think it was the $75,000 JK had donated that was the impetus.