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That is indeed a sweet deal, Baja. I wish I could get summer off, although I know the pay ain't what it should be and I'm quite sure I personally would not make the best of teachers. ;) Nobody would want their kid in my class.Quote:
Originally Posted by BajaOklahoma
College. Yikes! I know you're happy with her choice of schools! My only one is moving into middle school next year. I'm leery of the adolescent he's about to become. I can't wait to see where he wants to go to college. I've been encouraging him as long as I can remember to go away somewhere and leave Louisiana. I love my home but it is not an economically robust place, and the future is not pretty. Besides, he spends his summers on LSU's campus and probably will have had his fill of the place by the time he gets to deciding. Don't tell TU but my first choice was - yep - Tulane. :)
The name of this thread should be "IM THE GREATEST SLACKER OF ALL TIME!!!"
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Originally Posted by BajaOklahoma
Sandbagger.;)
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Originally Posted by TigerGirl
Middle school is very tough. We have 6th, 7th and 8th together, which does seem to work. There is a mandatory homework agenda for the kids, which helps parents kinda know what is going on. The big thing is getting to know their friends. The two oldest, boys, were always encouraged to bring their friends over to our house (and I have the advantage of beating them home from school) so that I could get to know the kids and what was going on. Even today, the guys come back over when they are in town. And they really miss us during hockey playoffs - good times!
is patrick swayze in here?Quote:
Originally Posted by colleyvillesooner
No.
But look at my post number for this thread now. 1450
I would like to wish this thread a safe and happy Memorial Day weekend.
I'll be heading over to east Texas for a girls weekend with my college friends. I am adequately supplied with the necessities...beer, vodka tonic supplies and Jack Daniels. I am experienced in the difficulties of acquiring alcohol in that part of the country. Therefore, I come prepared.
Cheers!
I wish you were coming to my house!
It must be Friday - OUinFla is Back! We have missed you!
This will be our first Memorial weekend without soccer since 1987..... sigh! The team is in Memphis, same as last year. Last year, the team played the State Champs from 3 different states. It was sad.... for them. ;)
Have a great weekend!
<blush>
Well thank you Baja,
You will have email soon. Life has been interesting to say the least.
Spend the weekend by the pool. Play water soccer.
:)
OU in Fla- Why do I suck at fishing now when I was so good as a kid?
Baja- Are you for giving raises to teachers, based on performance, that would get your salary eeeeeeeaqual to business people?
TU- what is the next greatest nonsensecle post that I will enjoy?
LSUgirl- Why are you going to tx when you can tickle fight the teddy clad girls in LA?
OUspammer (OUThuner) That is a mildly funny name for you. What's going on up there besides crap golf... which is probably killer golf right now? You're a smart guy. I would like you to expound on your thoughts in tis thread.
The rest of ya's take heed? Post your fun toughts here. Give us your best. It CAN be football related. We just have had a great run of banter.......
I sent 4 of you PM's about avatars (the little pics under your names). I can make them for you. You will have to upload them yourself, if you want one. Just for fun...
What about my wife taking a snap in her bikini?
Did your Dad or Grandpa set the hook for you?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jason White's Third Knee
Mine did.
Sometimes it's where you go fishing. I have had the greatest opportunity over the past 10 years to fish in a private area. It is 5000 land acres in central Florida that was mined for phosphate back in the late 50's. It consists of 5 lakes ranging from 200 to 800 acres. Fishing was restricted to a lease holder. One of my better friends had the lease over the past 7 years, and he would take guide trips out there. When he needed an extra guide, I would take his clients. This got me the benefit of being able to go fishing there whenever I wanted that didnt conflict with one of his trips.
It was strictly catch and release as the land owners knew they would develop the land someday.
In 2000 I was able to fish 2-3 times each week. My fishing partner and I caught a ton of fish that year.
Our best day was 100 bass which included three - 9 #'s, six - 8 #'s, four - 7#'s, twelve - 6 #'s and the rest were 3# - 5#, other than two fish we caught which were only 1#. Phenominal day to say the least.
We had a dozen days where we caught over 75 fish, and I personally caught 3 that went over 10 #'s that year.
A bad day that year was when we only caught 40 fish.
Over the year, we are guessing we boated over 1000 fish that went over 5#'s. We quit taking pictures unless the bass were 8#'s or better.
Since that year, the fishing has declined somewhat in those lakes, it is being developed heavily by next year and quite a few more people now have access to the lakes. We suspect many of them are taking the fish home with them. This year, it has been rare to catch over 40 fish, and 20-25 is more the norm. Fewer big fish have been caught and no 10# plus fish have been caught that we know of.
It was great while it lasted, but I have now almost totally converted to salt water fishing in Tampa Bay, and I am not as competent at salt water as I was at bass fishing. But, I like it better.
Consider this my contribution to diversify subject matter within this thread.
I am not a teacher, though I am able to get teacher retirement. If I got paid per-clinic visit, I could retire now. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Jason White's Third Knee
My view, as a non-teacher but working at a school, is that performance-based raises are "the devil". But that is already in place, to a degree, in our school district. The teacher live and breathe TAAS, TAKS, TEKS, whatever the current test is going. It is the only "objective" way to see if the required material is being taught.
The issue that most teachers have with "performance based raises" is that each child is different. They all come to school with different knowledge, skills, ability and desire. There is a big difference in getting an honors student to pass a basic test and getting a student that we know SHOULD be in Special Education (but just barely didn't meet the criteria) to pass the same test.
And once you start start making exceptions here and there on what constitutes a good performance evaluation, you are back to subjective evaluations.
We have a special "Structured" classroom - for autistic children. These kids get one-on-one teaching, many being taught how-to-learn (think Helen Keller learning fingerspelling "water" means water). These kids are so far from attempting a standardized test, how would that fit in? (and these poor teachers get to change diapers, suffer daily biting, and try to teach the kids)
We also have kids who go to the State (and often National) level of competition in Destination Imagination (think Oydessey of the Mind). They are so bright, the teachers have to stretch to keep ahead of them. How would that fit in?
What the teacher also hate is to get new students the week before the tests - they will count against the teacher even though common sense says that they shouldn't.
And that is my $5.00 on the subject. :D
Now if you want to hear my opinion on the Texas "Robin Hood Bill"; AKA, Rob Us Please .... OMG! That would be several thousand dollars! :D
Thanks for the insults ...I feel like I'm in the South Oval now. Enjoy this thread and this will be my last post in it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jason White's Third Knee
Have fun folks.
JWTK, you really need to learn how to spell.
When I went to Birmingham in March, I learned that it is illegal for an individual to bring alcoholic beverages into Alabama. I guess you have to buy your booze there. Maybe some day I'll look up the statute.
As to avatars, I never gave much thought to what mine ought to be. Now I will think about it.
OUThunder, "Come back!"
Now I'm going to crash on the couch, because I'm home alone. <sniff>
hi
Thunder come home!
Not having much to do this morning....
I was thinking..............
that it might be kinda fun..........
if I was able to.............
figure out.........
nevermind - I was going to hijack you!
how to get........
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to the top of page 50 in this neverending thread?
Baja = thoughtus interuptus
I was trying to put a comment after 1466, but I type too slowly.
I thought it would be funny to have it say:
OUinFLA
that it might be kinda fun..........
Baja
to have this turn into one of those stories that I start and you continue.
Of course, I talk too much too. Sigh.
You have this thing for numbers - always managing to get on just in time to snag a good/important number! Just lucky or are you...... using ESP?Quote:
Originally Posted by OUinFLA
Thunder......? I hope you are playing some golf this morning. It's 7:40 AM and 79 outside. Wind advisory - which is the excuse that I use when I play golf.
I am waiting for the vet to call and let me know that I can pick up our older Old English. With all of the vomiting Friday night through Saturday afternoon, they were thinking foreign body obstruction or pancreatitis. The tests were all negative, except that she was a bit dehydrated. I took some of her dog food in last night and got to take her for a walk.......
This is one of "those stories". It is just disjointed.
JWTK is undertaking the task of catagorizing, and placing
all replies into book and chapter form. Im sure it will make
more sense then.
I am just lucky.
Hope the dog is ok. Amazing how they become "family".
My wife remarked one day.....I think I get more pleasure
out of the dog than I do being around our son.
Of course he had just turned 15 and knew everything at
that time. Now he is 19 and he knows even more.
At least the dog doesnt dispute our word. She just doesnt
obey...........well, neither does the son.
Bailey is back - with braided hair. (It calmed down at the vets during the evening). They kept her extra to finish off the IV. Time will tell if she is okay.
Sigh. But this is a great clinic - they came in way under the estimate, which was reasonable to begin with. Good vet care and nice people.
It wasn't poor spelling this time. It was poor typing/editing. I suck at spelling too though. As far as being insulting, I was trying to be playful. I was also trying to get you to write on something other than golf and the weather surrounding golf.Quote:
Originally Posted by OUthunder
OK - Inane Evening Trivia:
Today (June 1) is the birthday of the motto "Don't give up the ship!" On June 1, 1813, Capt. James Lawrence, commanding the 49-gun U.S.S. CHESAPEAKE accepted a (literal) challenge from Philip Broke, captain of the 38-gun H.M.S. SHANNON to do battle off Boston. Lawrence was soon wounded but shouted, "Tell the men to fire faster and not to give up the ship; fight her till she sinks!" Nonetheless, the SHANNON battered the blood and snot out of CHESAPEAKE and captured her in under an hour. Lawrence died four days later. In his honor, a group of women stitched the words "Don't Give Up The Ship" into a flag that was presented to Oliver Hazard Perry, commander of the new U.S.S. LAWRENCE. Perry went on to win the battle of Lake Erie, on September 13, 1813, and the flag now hangs at the US Naval Academy. Less well known is Lawrence's last command to his crew - "Burn her!"
As an aside note, the same quote "Dont give up the ship" was shortened and bastardized by many an enlisted sailor into "I dont give a ship", or something similar.
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Originally Posted by OUinFLA
Haha. The song "Blinded By The Light" was originally written and recorded by Bruce Springsteen. It was covered by Manfred Mann's Earth Band and went to #1. It was Springsteen's first #1 hit. The other big hit by Manfred? "There she was just a walkin' down the street, singin' dowadittyditttydumdittydo." The most controversial line in BBTL is most widely believed to be:
Revved up like a duece, another runner in the night.
But there is a lot of pot out there and the controversy lingers...
I wonder if Thunder is going to stay mad at me. I thought the OUspammer thing was funny. Alas, I have gone too far yet again.
When you come to Florida, you have gone too far.
:D
Thunder will forgive you eventually I am sure. I fear he is golfing all day everyday.
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Originally Posted by Jason White's Third Knee
Send him a golf club - either an antique or a really good new one. :D
And no, I won't let you have my old ones to send to him! Referring to the antique ones, you know. Glad to help. :D
Antique golf clubs:
Story related to Norman, Ok.
My great-aunt Becky Berry, from Norman, owned a farm on the western outskirts of town many years ago. (Yep, the same Berry for which Berry Road is named)
I never knew my great-uncle as he died before I was old enough to remember him. However, I remember visiting my aunt many times as a young child. She loved to garden, and when raising tomatoes, she used wooden handled golf clubs to support the plants. She never minded that I would pull them up and play with them like toys. I remember she gave me one to keep. I dont remember how many clubs she had in her garden, but it was several. All had wooden handles.
I wonder what those would be worth nowdays?
I do remember trying to play golf once when I was about 13 or 14 at the local 9 hole golf course where I grew up, and I had a rag tag collection of clubs to play with.......believe it or not, one of them was a wooden handle 7 iron, courtesy of my Great aunt Becky.
Her son Curtis who was my second cousin, and a life-time resident and doctor in Norman was on the 1928 Sooner football team.
Personal Sooner history lesson for today.