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Originally posted by: Warbler
Chaltab your school has already started?
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
Well, bad thing happens. Good things too, we just don't think about it...
Chaltab how is your father? Is he out of the hospital?
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Yes. Don't rub it in.
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
He is. He's at home now. It will probably be a few months before his hand heals up enough to use it for anything major, though.
War does not make one great.
Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here, this is the war room!
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Originally posted by: bad_karma24
I graduated from high school last year and every classroom had a video monitor, along with VHS and DVD, and a decent computer.
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Originally posted by: bad_karma24
Best wishes to your father Chaltab!
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Originally posted by: Darth ChaltabQuote
Originally posted by: bad_karma24
Best wishes to your father Chaltab!
Thanks...
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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
You have video display monitors in your school?
Man, it hasn't been THAT long since I left school, has it?
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Originally posted by: Darth Enzo
Stop it, Greencapt, you're bringing back low-tech high school memories. I think there were between eight and twelve TVs in my HS, all of which rode around on carts with a VCR tagging along. I think a couple of the VCRs might have been old-style-even-then top loaders. The teachers just looooved having to scrounge up a TV for a video lesson; the smart ones would make their reservation weeks ahead.
War does not make one great.
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Originally posted by: Darth Enzo
Stop it, Greencapt, you're bringing back low-tech high school memories. I think there were between eight and twelve TVs in my HS, all of which rode around on carts with a VCR tagging along. I think a couple of the VCRs might have been old-style-even-then top loaders. The teachers just looooved having to scrounge up a TV for a video lesson; the smart ones would make their reservation weeks ahead.
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Originally posted by: greencapt
I KNOW its been that long since I've left.... dammit.
I did the morning anouncments as well- spoken over a crackley microphone and played out over crackley mono speakers in each class room. The prep work was done on these technologocal marvels called 'index cards', on which the announcement material was etched using something called a 'pen'.
sigh
(counts gray hairs... at least the ones his wife doesn't pluck out while he's sleeping)
War does not make one great.
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Originally posted by: Bossk
Oh, and to age us even more, I took my keyboarding class on a typewriter. Remember those?
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Originally posted by: BosskQuote
Originally posted by: greencapt
I KNOW its been that long since I've left.... dammit.
I did the morning anouncments as well- spoken over a crackley microphone and played out over crackley mono speakers in each class room. The prep work was done on these technologocal marvels called 'index cards', on which the announcement material was etched using something called a 'pen'.
sigh
(counts gray hairs... at least the ones his wife doesn't pluck out while he's sleeping)
Same here on all counts (save for me delivering the morning announcements). Pen, index cards, grey hairs being plucked. However, on that last point, I do get a bit ticked. One time we were at her parents' house for a family party and I was sitting on the floor while she was on the couch behind me. She reached down and plucked out a grey hair in front of everybody. I turned to her and said "what the heck are you doing?", she said "plucking a grey hair", I said "why?", she said "it's grey", I said "it's attached and, so long as it's attached, I could care less what color it is", one of her uncles said "amen!"Quote
Wow, That's hilarious.
Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here, this is the war room!
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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
By the time I graduated they had upgraded to shitty PCs running Windows 3.1, although windows 95 was the current version. My school was just ghetto and cheap I guess.
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Gumperson's Law, as explained below, accounts for the fact that you can throw a burned match out the window of your car and start a forest fire, while you can use two boxes of matches and a whole edition of the Sunday paper without being able to start a fire under the dry logs in your fireplace.
The law, stated simply, is "THE CONTRADICTORY OF A WELCOME PROBABILITY WILL ASSERT ITSELF WHENEVER SUCH AN EVENT IS LIKELY TO BE MOST FRUSTRATING."
Readers familiar with these matters will perhaps recognize another version of the Law: The Outcome of a Given Desired Probability will be Inverse to the Degree of Desirability.
Dr. R.F. Gumperson, internationally famous physicist, began serious work in 1938 on a phenomenon long known to scientists, but up until then considered as a mere curiosity. This was the fact that the forecasting record of the Weather Bureau, despite its use of the most advanced equipment and highly trained personnel, was not as good as that of the Farmers' Almanac. After four years of research, Dr. Gumperson enunciated his now famous law and was able to make a series of predictions later confirmed by other workers in the field. Some of the better known of these include the following:
(1) That after a raise in pay you will have less money at the end of the month than you had before.
(2) That the girl at the race track who bets according to the color of the jockey's shirt will pick more winners than the man who studied the past performance of every horse on the program.
(3) That children have more energy after a hard day of play than they do after a good night's sleep.
(4) That the person who buys the most raffle tickets has the least chance of winning the raffle.
(5) That a child can be exposed to mumps for weeks without catching them, but can catch them without exposure the day before the family vacation.
(6) That the dishwasher will break down the evening you give dinner for ten.
(7) That the parking spaces are always on the other side of the street.
Dr. Gumperson served as a consultant to the armed services during World War II and evolved the procedure whereby the more a recruit knew about a given subject, the better chance he had of receiving an assignment elsewhere.
There is no knowing to what further glittering heights Dr. Gumperson's genius could have led him had it not been for his untimely death in 1947. Strolling along the highway one evening, he was obeying the pedestrian rules of walking to the left, wearing light clothing, and facing traffic. He was (hit) from behind by a Hillman-Minx, driven by an English visitor (driving on the wrong) side of the road.
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Originally posted by: Bossk
IBMs running OS/2.