On May 23, 9:56*pm, Boron Elgar > wrote:
> On Fri, 23 May 2008 18:44:08 -0700, Terry Pulliam Burd
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> >On Fri, 23 May 2008 13:01:09 -0400, Boron Elgar
> > fired up random neurons and synapses to
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> >>I was taught the displacement method of measuring Crisco in an 8th
> >>grade Home Ec class. That was in 1963.
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> >High five, girl, as I learned the same thing in Home Ec in 1964.
> >Doesn't work worth a damn, AFAICS, as you still get grease on the
> >glass measure, so what have you gained?
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> >[And I bailed on that Home Ec class - only girls were "allowed" to
> >take Home Ec and only boys were "allowed" to take shop. I went to war
> >about it on my second or third day into the Home Ec class. My dear
> >aulde dad backed me *up. Upshot was, I got to take shop - and jammed a
> >cold chisel into my hand on my second or third day, thus
> >proving...okay, shaddup.]
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> >Still mechanically inept as hell...
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> >Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
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> >"Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch!"
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> > * *-- W.C. Fields
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> We tortured that Home Ec teacher...probably to pay her back for
> teaching us about greasy measuring cups. I seem to remember we glued
> the flour canisters to the countertop.
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> I would have loved to have taken shop, but it was not an option.
> Still, I married well enough that I now have every power tool the
> world has ever seen.

Luckily my school didn't offer shop. I'd never had graduated if I had
to take it. We didn't have home ec either. Strangely enough we were
expected to learn both at home. I didn't pass the home version of
shop either. Whenever there was something needed to be done to the
car the question I always was asked was "Where's your sister?" .

John Kane Kingston ON Canada