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Cheri[_3_]

"Ophelia" > wrote in message
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> "jmcquown" 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. 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. 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! Wrecked the ribbon!

There's a reason why it has been featured so many times because I'm sure it
happened a lot in bygone ages.

Cheri