tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post2167784036543727767..comments2023-09-29T06:58:20.125-07:00Comments on Badtux the Snarky Penguin: A bad idea still going aroundBadTuxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01345749557330760251noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-33893757743586965342009-05-19T19:58:36.687-07:002009-05-19T19:58:36.687-07:00There is a precedent for this sort of foolishness....There is a precedent for this sort of foolishness. In the early 60's when my hometown bus company was forced to remove the signs directing persons of varying colors to sit in different parts of the bus, the city replaced those signs with new ones proclaiming that "the operator of this bus is a duly sworn police officer".<br /><br />Just goes to show that pigheaded stupidity is timelessRez Doghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05733971773065696730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-12846384047961365882009-05-19T14:27:25.799-07:002009-05-19T14:27:25.799-07:00BT - Off topic - and I apologise...My dad was a Hi...BT - Off topic - and I apologise...My dad was a High School teacher. One of his favorite stories was of a shop teacher who was walking down the hall and observed a student with an unlit cigarete in his mouth. Without breaking stride, he plucked the contraband returning only to reply to the students loud objections.<br /><br />After listening for a while the teacher summed it up. "So you think you're not being treted like an adult?". "Right!" said the student, who was standing in front of his open upper locker. The shop teacher briskly swung the open door into the students forhead, not enough to break skin or even raise a goose egg, but a surprise.<br /><br />"There - how do you like being treated like an adult?" And the teacher walked off with the cigarette. <br /><br />I've always had mixed feelings about the story. On the one hand, I don't endorse abusing children. On the other hand, the school represented an environment for the benefit of students which the City of San Jose had a right to regulate in terms of conduct. If ya student suggests there should be no rules, well, he got a brief trial run of that environment.<br /><br />At this time a lot of those students graduated High School to an all-expense-paid trip to Viet Nam, a country of few schools and few rules where life was cheap and learning how unfair life could be was a brutal lesson.TampaDoughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12927689342520971279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-4894734071971300862009-05-18T18:29:00.001-07:002009-05-18T18:29:00.001-07:00Well, since the line was truncated...
http://news...Well, since the line was truncated...<br /><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090518/ap_on_re_us/<br />us_louisiana_school_shooting_7Mr. 618https://www.blogger.com/profile/09888639331798664267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-87677226638832193892009-05-18T18:29:00.000-07:002009-05-18T18:29:00.000-07:00BTW, just found this: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/2...BTW, just found this: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090518/ap_on_re_us/us_louisiana_school_shooting_7<br /><br />This would have started a real firefight if the teachers had been armed.Mr. 618https://www.blogger.com/profile/09888639331798664267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-44004245928902872662009-05-18T17:23:00.000-07:002009-05-18T17:23:00.000-07:00Guns don't kill people. Dumbass rednecks with gun...Guns don't kill people. Dumbass rednecks with guns kill people.<br /><br />How about what happens the first time some teacher shoots one of the Hispanic students "cuz I thunk the little beaner had a knife"?Mr. 618https://www.blogger.com/profile/09888639331798664267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-35139933749400201462009-05-18T16:15:00.000-07:002009-05-18T16:15:00.000-07:00A bad idea indeed . I remember my High Schol class...A bad idea indeed . I remember my High Schol class of 71 . As probably most schools do we had our "mad scientist" . An otherwise brilliant nerd who just happened to love blowing shit up . I last heard he had a scholarship to Cornwell or something like that . I can just imagine the time he sent a school trash can about 4 feet up with a big boom , and (then) out would come a half dozen pistols ? Poor guy never would of got to graduate high school . <br />Kids killing kids is bad enough , you can't add the teachers to the mayhem .<br /> a serious w3skiw3skihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13993709956954374919noreply@blogger.com