blake murphy wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 13:58:47 -0500, Gregory Morrow wrote:
>
> >
> > And Steve Wertz is refusing my usual blandishments even though he now
has a
> > gig installing glory holes in toilets. I'm CRUSHED but I 'spose I'll
have
> > to live with it...<sob>
> >
> > <chuckle>
>
> if you're nice to him, maybe he'll tell you where they are. you could
meet
> some new people. well, part of them.


I'm into the "whole" person blake, not just the "hole" person...the
"totality of one's being" and all that jazz...


--
Best
Greg

blake murphy wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 13:52:25 -0500, Gregory Morrow wrote:
>
> >
> > I've tried to be "good" and not fiddle around with the cyberthang too
much
> > but it's really difficult, like quitting smoking or something!
> >
> > I guess I am Groucho Marx to cybercat's Margaret Dumont...
> >
> > :-)
>
> what a load of crap. you're not even smart enough for the three stooges.
>


Okay, maybe I'm Louis Prima to cybercat's Keely Smith...


--
Best
Greg

Gregory Morrow wrote:

>
> Okay, maybe I'm Louis Prima to cybercat's Keely Smith...
>
Oh damn. Don't bring some of my favorite old voices into this slam
I love Louis and Keely!

Big news, I remembered to bring my bags to the supermarket
today. It wasn't all that difficult. Heh. Whoo wee.

nancy

hahabogus wrote:
>
> Arri London > wrote in :
>
> >
> >
> > Nancy Young wrote:
> >>
> >> Andy wrote:
> >> > Nancy Young said...
> >> >
> >> >> But how did you cover your school textbooks when you were a kid??
> >>
> >> > I remember doing that at the beginning of the school year!!! Thinking
> >> > back, I don't remember why.
> >> >
> >>
> >> You had to! To protect the books. Heaven forbid you
> >> showed up at class day 2 without them being covered.
> >>
> >> nancy
> >
> >
> > Precisely! One of the few pleasures of 'back to school' (those words
> > still chill my soul LOL) was choosing the decorated covers for our
> > primary-school books. Brown paper was, of course, the cheaper
> > alternative. But covered they had to be.
> >
> > Kept covering them in secondary school, but it wasn't *required* by
> > then. Any book damage had to be paid for at the end of the year, as did
> > lost books.
> >
>
> Some used brown paper and picture stencils and then colored the pictures
> on the covers...
>


One of my Bengali students covered his books very carefully with brown
paper. Then proceeded to write his name (in English) on every square
centimetre of those covers

Arri London said...

>
>
> hahabogus wrote:
>>
>> Arri London > wrote in :
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > Nancy Young wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Andy wrote:
>> >> > Nancy Young said...
>> >> >
>> >> >> But how did you cover your school textbooks when you were a kid??
>> >>
>> >> > I remember doing that at the beginning of the school year!!!
Thinking
>> >> > back, I don't remember why.
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> You had to! To protect the books. Heaven forbid you
>> >> showed up at class day 2 without them being covered.
>> >>
>> >> nancy
>> >
>> >
>> > Precisely! One of the few pleasures of 'back to school' (those words
>> > still chill my soul LOL) was choosing the decorated covers for our
>> > primary-school books. Brown paper was, of course, the cheaper
>> > alternative. But covered they had to be.
>> >
>> > Kept covering them in secondary school, but it wasn't *required* by
>> > then. Any book damage had to be paid for at the end of the year, as
did
>> > lost books.
>> >
>>
>> Some used brown paper and picture stencils and then colored the pictures
>> on the covers...
>>
>
>
> One of my Bengali students covered his books very carefully with brown
> paper. Then proceeded to write his name (in English) on every square
> centimetre of those covers


WOW!!!

Cool kid!!! ))

Andy

Andy wrote:
>
> Arri London said...
>
> >
> >
> > hahabogus wrote:
> >>
> >> Arri London > wrote in :
> >>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Nancy Young wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Andy wrote:
> >> >> > Nancy Young said...
> >> >> >
> >> >> >> But how did you cover your school textbooks when you were a kid??
> >> >>
> >> >> > I remember doing that at the beginning of the school year!!!
> Thinking
> >> >> > back, I don't remember why.
> >> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> You had to! To protect the books. Heaven forbid you
> >> >> showed up at class day 2 without them being covered.
> >> >>
> >> >> nancy
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Precisely! One of the few pleasures of 'back to school' (those words
> >> > still chill my soul LOL) was choosing the decorated covers for our
> >> > primary-school books. Brown paper was, of course, the cheaper
> >> > alternative. But covered they had to be.
> >> >
> >> > Kept covering them in secondary school, but it wasn't *required* by
> >> > then. Any book damage had to be paid for at the end of the year, as
> did
> >> > lost books.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Some used brown paper and picture stencils and then colored the pictures
> >> on the covers...
> >>
> >
> >
> > One of my Bengali students covered his books very carefully with brown
> > paper. Then proceeded to write his name (in English) on every square
> > centimetre of those covers
>
> WOW!!!
>
> Cool kid!!! ))
>
> Andy

LOL he had his moments. Just about the only one who kept his school
uniform tidy at least until lunchtime!

On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:36:28 -0600, Arri London >
wrote:

>One of my Bengali students covered his books very carefully with brown
>paper. Then proceeded to write his name (in English) on every square
>centimetre of those covers

Maybe he was an artist at heart!

Can you imagine coming from a place where you had nothing to where you
actually "owned" books?

Not kidding.


--
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

Mae West

"Nancy Young" > wrote in
news
> ChattyCathy wrote:
>> Nancy Young wrote:
>
>>> True enough, but many women's pocketbooks are cavernous.
>>> If they were looking to shoplift, bringing special bags wouldn't
>>> be necessary. Plus she said they didn't want her putting her
>>> purchases in her own bags after she paid for them.
>>

I've gotten weird looks, and when one of the stores I shop at regularly
started using that annoying bag spinner thing, I stopped trying to use
them until they put in "no item limit" self-scanning checkouts.

>> Do you have to pay for (plastic) bags that the supermarkets/stores
>> supply in your neck of the woods?
>
> I'm going to say no, but I don't speak for the whole country.
> Bags are free, and you can choose paper or plastic.
>
> Nothing against the bags, really, I do use some of them for
> things around the house. Plastic bags come in very handy, just
> not the wads of them that accumulate in no time. Paper bags,
> they're very handy to have and sometimes I specifically ask for
> them.
>

I only ask for them if I know I need to use them as extra cooling areas
for cookie projects or if they have handles.

>> We used to get them for nothing at the checkouts - I think this may
>> have been a way to discourage shoplifting i.e. there was no excuse to
>> have to bring your own bags etc. into the stores/markets... However,
>> that all came to stop a few years ago; the 'powers that be' around
>> here decided that these plastic bags were not exactly environmentally
>> friendly - so they passed a law that all the stores had to start
>> charging their customers for them.
>
> What's funny is that the stores are the worst offenders, if they do
> any bagging they are notorious for way under-loading the bags.
> One or two items per bag. That's really when I wind up with wads
> of the things.
>

I used to work as a grocery cashier and this drives me crazy. Half the
time I've had to stand there pulled to the side, rearranging the bags so
that my groceries didn't get smashed/break through the bag/get
contaminated by chicken juice.

I do re=use them a lot, but not in the quantities I've accumulated (I
also forget my bags half the time. I love my cooler bag though. I hate
worrying if my milk is going to go bad this time of year.)


Saerah
>

Dave Smith > wrote in
:

> Nancy Young wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> You had to! To protect the books. Heaven forbid you
>> showed up at class day 2 without them being covered.
>
> When I was in elementary school the first thing we did when we got our
> text books was to put covers on them, usually with plain old brown
> paper. We could put whatever we wanted on the outside of the covers
> but would be in deep doodoo if we wrote in the books. It seems much
> different today. Kids do not cover the the books, doodle all over the
> outside and write inside them and underline or highlight sections.
>
>
>

My 10th grade biology textbook (or maybe it was 9th grade) had an
illustration of a penis over an anatomic illustration of an open mouth.

the book had had only one owner previously, and my friends and I had a
good laugh.

Saerah (never minded hilighted/underlined passages though)

sf wrote:
>
> On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:36:28 -0600, Arri London >
> wrote:
>
> >One of my Bengali students covered his books very carefully with brown
> >paper. Then proceeded to write his name (in English) on every square
> >centimetre of those covers
>
> Maybe he was an artist at heart!
>
> Can you imagine coming from a place where you had nothing to where you
> actually "owned" books?

LOL he, like most of my Bengali students, was born in London. But yes,
in most of the residences I visited, there were few to no written
materials in either Bengali or English.

>
> Not kidding.
>
> --

The majority of the textbooks were doled out in class and then collected
at the end of the lesson. Never taught in any school where there were
always enough books for the students to take home. Got furious when one
of the older students actually stole a slim workbook! Didn't realise
they had any street value LOL. Got it back eventually though.