Let’s get the comments started…
September 12th, 2007 | by mmb5 |According to how I have this fancy new blog setup, any person commenting for the first time has to be approved. This is to help stop comment spam. So, I had to think of something that would generate comments. Here are three topics.
- A wacky teacher story. When I was driving home from work last night, the station the radio happened to be on was doing this, so I will steal it. Mine would be my eighth-grade algebra teacher. One time I needed to fetch something from the school library. The library was closed during lunch hours normally, but the librarian gave me the key. I open the doors with the key, turn on the lights, and there is my algebra teacher, reading in the dark. That was his last year teaching. He became a minister at a new-age-like church.
- A movie or TV series set in New Mexico. When I was flipping through channels one night, I got momentarily distracted by High School Musical 2 since they were doing a baseball scene, and I noticed there were mountains in the background, something pretty unusual for a baseball field. Lo and behold, apparently the thing is set in Albuquerque.
- Using federally supported municipal bonds to pay for forced busing of Soviet Communists to come into your homes to kill your puppies — for or against (and points to whomever gets the reference)
8 Responses to “Let’s get the comments started…”
By Greg S. on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
1. Craig isn’t really wacky. More madcap, with occasional zaniness.
2. Did Truth or Consequences ever broadcast from TorC, NM?
3. got nothing here.
By James D. on Sep 14, 2007 | Reply
1. My wife teaches 1st grade. You need to be a little zany to deal with 15-20 5-6 year olds on a regular basis, but she’s remarkably calm and “in control” in the classroom.
Also hard to be “wacky” when you have No Child Left Behind regulations breathing down your back. Today’s first grade universe seems to all be about passing state and federal standards in reading and math, with “specials” (phys ed, music, art) and fun activities (recess, field trips) thrown out the window.
By Mark on Sep 14, 2007 | Reply
1. In second grade, I fought in a boxing match with my teacher. Not sure how it came about, but for a short while the reading area became the squared circle, and I the Firpo to his Tunney.
He’d be arrested if he tried this now.
2. There was that one episode of The X-Files about the alien baseball player for Roswell’s minor league team.
3. I’ve not read Senator Clinton’s presidential platform closely enough to comment.
By Perry on Sep 18, 2007 | Reply
3. I approve, but only if Buck Henry is the one to do the actual killing.
By joe on Sep 22, 2007 | Reply
My 7th grade homeroom teacher set the PA state record for longevity at 57.5 years. And probably also the record for senility, but that’s harder to quantify.
By Craig Barker on Oct 9, 2007 | Reply
1). Greg’s right.
2). Roswell?
3). Neutral, waiting for Ron Paul to weigh in.
(And embarrassed it took this long, but remember, WordPress is blocked at work.)
By Alma on Oct 31, 2007 | Reply
During the first meeting of Varsity and JV Speech sophomore year, we all told short extemporaneous personal stories. One of the faculty sponsors, who will remain nameless, decided this would be a good time to tell us about the time he came back from a summer trip to India and found out he had tapeworms. When he excreted one. He said it looked at him.
I had forgotten about that story until just now. I hope that it goes away again soon.
By Julie Stahlhut on Nov 27, 2007 | Reply
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Any More. At least the movie started out in Socorro. I don’t remember whether the Linda Lavin TV series did, though.