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[Cleveland Brown]

Originally Posted by Buckeye Native 001

Beat having to drive out to Albuquerque for a paralegal job I probably didn't get.

The lawyer interviewing me wore a hat and t-shirt. I wore a blue dress shirt, black tie and khakis and slippers (no socks or shoes). The wonders of modern technology...

I look forward to you working around a bunch of greedy assholes . Although they sound laid back enough. I still remember working at a place where I was criticized for wearing too much black and grey shirts, but no one said a word about the guy who wore a (different) navy blue or charcoal grey suit, white shirt, and red tie for years. I almost shat my pants when he once wore a green tie.

[Buckeye Native 001]

Well like I said: I don't think I got the job, so for the time being, I'm stuck with my current crazy-ass boss for whom I can never do anything right. I can't imagine working for a law firm being all that much different.

I actually have a decent palette of colored dress shirts...as well as half a closet full of obnoxious Hawaiian shirts. I'm kind of an idiot, you see...

[Cleveland Brown]

Originally Posted by Ayreonaut

My hometown's in the news!

Pics? Where were all those hot and horny teachers when I was in high school. I only got the batshit insane old algebra teacher who made me take the final exam at her apartment.

[Buckeye Native 001]

"Oilfields" High School?

Also, Cleveland: You're such a troll

[Ayreonaut]

Originally Posted by Cleveland Brown

Pics? Where were all those hot and horny teachers when I was in high school. I only got the batshit insane old algebra teacher who made me take the final exam at her apartment.

We had lots of hot teachers, but she wasn't one. Note that she essentially payed teenage boys to have sex (and I can tell you it started a lot earlier than fall 2007). I know a few guys that used to hang out at her place in 2005-6, though I'm not sure they ever did anything like this. But seriously, the fact that a 15 or 16 year old refused sex with her is an indication of what she looks like.

Originally Posted by Buckeye Native 001

"Oilfields" High School?

Yeah, Calgary wouldn't even be a quarter of the size it is if oil wasn't discovered in my town in 1914. And yes, our team name was the Drillers, and our logo was an oil derrick.
Nowadays the oil's all up North, and I wouldn't doubt Edmonton would have gotten all the HQs if Leduc was discovered first (which didn't occur until the 40s).

[Buckeye Native 001]

I had a couple of hot teachers in high school, but they were all happily married.

One of those hot teachers taught English and liked my writing a little too much, but in typical Buckeye fashion, I shunned her attempts to nurture whatever "gift" she thought I was harboring.

[mthq]

those were the days..

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[Ayreonaut]

My friend played that at the talent contest and winked at our hottest teacher. She like it.

[Buckeye Native 001]

He sang it or played the guitar?

[Ayreonaut]

Both - One man acoustic version.

[Cleveland Brown]

Originally Posted by Buckeye Native 001

Also, Cleveland: You're such a troll

Well that got scrubbed along with a few other things.

[rockyi]

Originally Posted by Ayreonaut

We had lots of hot teachers, but she wasn't one. Note that she essentially payed teenage boys to have sex (and I can tell you it started a lot earlier than fall 2007). I know a few guys that used to hang out at her place in 2005-6, though I'm not sure they ever did anything like this. But seriously, the fact that a 15 or 16 year old refused sex with her is an indication of what she looks like.


Yeah, Calgary wouldn't even be a quarter of the size it is if oil wasn't discovered in my town in 1914. And yes, our team name was the Drillers, and our logo was an oil derrick.

I went to Moline (IL) High. Our team name was the Maroons....What the fuck? No mascot and no logo other than a big maroon "M"....Also there were absolutely NO hot female teachers when I went there. Just a bunch of middle aged or old women who were basically just a bunch of bitchy nuns without the habits.
My graduating class had 997 students and there was over 3,000 students total in the school (grades 10-12 only) that was made for 1,500 to 2,000. Changing classes was hell when ALL these kids crammed to the halls at the same time. Sometimes I got to class and realized I was missing a shoe.

My neice is a senior this year and the class size is down to a more reasonable 400. Since they now have room they've moved in the freshmen who were considered Jr. High when I went to school.


.....but they're still called the Maroons.

[Blitz]

I had a couple of real nuns as high school teachers and they were awesome and exceptionally nice. Everyone loved them. Have no idea where the 'bitchy nun' stereotype comes from.

[Ayreonaut]

In the 90s my school had 600 students in a building designed for 300, so they had temporary buildings all over the property while they expanded. By the time I got there we had 250 students (grade 9-12) in a school designed for 800. Several of my classes had 5-9 students.

[rockyi]

Originally Posted by Blitz

I had a couple of real nuns as high school teachers and they were awesome and exceptionally nice. Everyone loved them. Have no idea where the 'bitchy nun' stereotype comes from.

There must be a age gap between you and me because when I was growing up "nice nuns" were few and far between. It was even worse when my mother was growing up.

[vid]

Originally Posted by Ayreonaut

My hometown's in the news!

Is that where the cheese comes from? Or is the name unrelated to that?

It isn't a very good cheese either way.

Originally Posted by Ayreonaut

In the 90s my school had 600 students in a building designed for 300, so they had temporary buildings all over the property while they expanded. By the time I got there we had 250 students (grade 9-12) in a school designed for 800. Several of my classes had 5-9 students.

My school could fit about 1,200 people but only had between 500 and 700 when I was going there. I have entire semesters with classes of only a few people. I had one class that dwindled down to 3 people by the mid-way point. I didn't graduate with everyone else so I have no idea how big that group was, probably not very large. A couple times during snow days (which only affected rural students, not urban ones), only one or two people would show up.

Small classes are better. I didn't do well in the classes with more than 20 people.

[Buckeye Native 001]

Originally Posted by rockyi

There must be a age gap between you and me because when I was growing up "nice nuns" were few and far between. It was even worse when my mother was growing up.

Cincinnati's heavily Catholic. In my time there (my mother grew up Catholic), I encountered about an equal number of heinous nuns and nice nuns. My mother worked for one of the schools in the Archdiocese and for whatever reason, they sent most of the evil nuns to her school...Probably because it was an all-deaf school and no matter how much they yelled at the insolent hearing impared, it literally fell on deaf ears...

[Ayreonaut]

No relation to Black Diamond cheese.

[rockyi]

I actually have met nice nuns but they are usually young. There aren't too many young nuns left.

[Blitz]

rockyi, there might be a gap (I was in high school in the late '90s). They were definitely strict, but really gentle about their strictness if that makes sense. They were insanely old too.

Yeah, Windsor is heavily Catholic also - there are almost as many Catholic schools as there are public schools. They don't charge tuition though because they're fully funded by the provincial government...so we've ended up with Muslim kids attending them which is kind of interesting.