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.
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.
§ ita § - Apr 19, 2011 5:57:43 pm PDT #4195 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Kat - Apr 19, 2011 6:43:52 pm PDT #4203 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Adding -- GM basically said he couldn't answer the allegations when 60 Minutes called because of the ill-effects of hypoxia. Granted GM has been traveling the world for YEARS at this point but just now, hypoxia is fucking with him? Hmmm...
Connie Neil - Apr 19, 2011 7:13:56 pm PDT #4204 of 30001
brillig
So was it eastern or Pacific time that Skynet is supposed to take over? Or did I not notice and the cyborg overlords don't give a damn about Utah? Or they were already in charge and nothing has changed?