On 7/13/2018 12:10 PM, Ophelia wrote:
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> "jmcquown"Â* wrote in message ...
> On 7/11/2018 10:49 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2018-07-11 9:35 AM, wrote:
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>>> To be honest, I don't think they would have allowed open ink pots in
>>> any classroom when I was child, even all the way to senior high school.
>>> Ruined clothes, ink fights, spilled ink on the floor.Â* Nope, definitely
>>> no open ink pots in a classroom.
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>> True. Teachers and janitors were probably happy to see them gone. I
>> once got into trouble for a stupid prank. There was a cute girl seated
>> in front of me and her pig tails were often resting on my desk.
>> Opportunity knocks once but temptation leans on the door bell. I
>> dipped the end of her right pigtail into my ink pot. I don't think she
>> realized that but she probably sensed that something was a miss and
>> jerked her head forward, ripping her pig tail from my 10 year old
>> fingers and onto her immaculately clean white blouse.
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> I always thought the dipping of a girl's pigtail in an ink pot was an
> urban legend.Â* Kind of like my dad walking uphill to school both ways in
> the snow... 
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> Jill
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> I had my plait dipped in ink!Â* Wrecked the ribbon!
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Okay, I believe you and Dave! I think I first read about the idea in
the book Tomy Sawyer (written by Mark Twain aka Samuel Clemens). Maybe
that's where all those boys got the idea. LOL
Jill