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Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 5:36 pm
by Accountable
Nomad;958511 wrote: Im required to get tasered and maced. Id like to be able to stand there with a smile on my face until the effects wear off as a kind of "who do you think your messing with here"? gesture.
Any advice ?
If not, any suggestions as to how I can prevent myself from crying and screaming out MOMMY !!!
For the taser: Chain mail. If you don't have that, then wrap your body in aluminum foil. It will spread and dilute the charge evenly over your entire body. It'll feel like a nice massage.
Condition yourself for the mace by wiping liberal amounts of wasabi inside your nostrils two to three times daily. A little dab in the eyes as well, if you're really concerned.
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Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 5:43 pm
by Nomad
What am I thinking right now ?
Ok how about now ?
Now ?
What about now ?
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Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 5:47 pm
by Accountable
Nomad;958521 wrote: What am I thinking right now ?
Ok how about now ?
Now ?
What about now ?
He'll never get this.
No, wait. He might guess
I'll ask one more.
That ought to do it. hehehehe :sneaky:
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Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 6:15 pm
by Nomad
I cried last night...well more of a sputtering choking snorting thing, when whats her face USA won her gold medal on the balance beam.
What makes you cry and why am I even asking you this ?
I mean really...whats the matter with me, guys dont ask guys what makes then cry.
Am I gay or something ?
Jesus !
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Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 6:32 pm
by Accountable
Nomad;958533 wrote: I cried last night...well more of a sputtering choking snorting thing, when whats her face USA won her gold medal on the balance beam.
What makes you cry and why am I even asking you this ?
I mean really...whats the matter with me, guys dont ask guys what makes then cry.
Am I gay or something ?
Jesus !
1999. It was to be the first time in 25 years that all five of us siblings were in the same room at the same time. We were meeting in Louisiana, coming from as near as North Carolina and as far as Italy, and we were in Okinawa Japan. Our military flight was delayed for repairs, first a few hours, then a day, then three. We scrambled to find a civilian flight, but they were all booked. We got on every waiting list, but it was no good. We didn't make it.
My sister sent me the video of the rest of the family sitting in the church basement meeting ancient relatives (who were somehow still alive) and looking painfully bored. I cried like a baby.
Last Spring I was drowning in the responsibilities of my new job. Meetings, lesson plans, parents, principals, training sessions. I was teaching 6 high school subjects each day while other teachers taught one 6 times. One Saturday at about 1pm I suddenly remembered that I was supposed to have taken the final test for my teacher's certification at 8am that morning. I cried as my world crashed around me.
But you might be gay.
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Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 4:43 am
by Nomad
Maybe but I refuse to have sex with men.

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Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 7:36 am
by Nomad
Why do coffee maker maufacturers strongly recommend their product will work better by filling the reservoir with cold water as opposed to hot water ?
Also why dont they just tell you in the manual so I dont have to come here and ask you stupid questions ?
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Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 8:32 am
by Accountable
Nomad;962008 wrote: Why do coffee maker maufacturers strongly their product will work better by filling the reservoir with cold water as opposed to hot water ?
Also why dont they just tell you in the manual so I dont have to come here and ask you stupid questions ?
:yh_glasse I think that's worthy of an experiment. Fill your coffee maker's reservoir with steaming hot water (not boiling because it's unsafe) and let me know how the coffee tastes. It may not be as stupid a question as you think.

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Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 10:14 am
by Nomad
Whats the proper response when someone says "get the **** off of my property or Ill kick your head in" ?
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Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 10:41 am
by Accountable
Nomad;962124 wrote: Whats the proper response when someone says "get the **** off of my property or Ill kick your head in" ?
You and whose army?
Okay, I'll go. But I could have saved you hundreds of dollars on car insurance.
Yeh, she said you called her that.
HA! I'll bet this isn't even your house. Let's see the deed.
*dropping to your knees* My contact! Don't move! You might step on it. Go get me some help! I told you to watch where you're going! Are you going to help me or just stand there all day?!??
This isn't my office. :-2
I'm from Publisher's Clearinghouse. You didn't win the 10 million, but you did get a free home inspection as a consolation prize.
Shut up, kid. Where's your mother?
Property! That's all you righ-wing wackos care about is yourself! What about the poor?? What about the homeless?? I'll bet you don't even give to charity do you? Can you let me see your phone and financial records to verify that?
Do you kiss your wife with that mouth? Now I'll have to wash mine.
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Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 4:58 pm
by Nomad
10.0
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Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 5:05 pm
by Accountable
Nomad;962536 wrote: 10.0Thanks! :yh_bigsmi
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Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 5:24 pm
by Nomad
Do you hate it as much as I do when you blurt something out that youre excited about like I dont know, a house on the lake we could afford and then your wife starts blurbing reasons why you cant ?
Even if it it makes sense ?
I hate it when she throws logic all around ! :-5
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Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 6:48 pm
by Accountable
Oh yeah! Like those "wouldn't it be cool if we ..." kind of statements. Can't a man have his dreams?
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Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 8:09 pm
by Clint
I thought I was the only one.

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Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 3:31 am
by Accountable
Clint;962635 wrote: I thought I was the only one.

It's like a guy can't even look at a flat screen TV anymore, or admire a really well-designed remote.

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Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 3:51 am
by Accountable
jimbo;962747 wrote: can you please tell nomad ,that standing outside a vets with a big empty cardboard box ,then as pretty young woman comes along ,pretending to cry saying he was a good faithfull friend for fifteen years and getting feel sorry for you you poor poor sad heartbroken man type of hugs is just wrong


OOoookay. :-3
Yo, Nomad. Standing outside a vets with a big empty cardboard box ,then as pretty young woman comes along ,pretending to cry saying you were a good faithfull friend for fifteen years and getting feel sorry for you you poor poor sad heartbroken man type of hugs is just wrong. But does it work?
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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 12:10 pm
by Nomad
Hannah Montana
Yea or Nay ?
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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:25 pm
by Kathy Ellen
How's school going Accountable...hope well:-6
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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:39 pm
by Accountable
Nomad;966227 wrote: Hannah Montana
Yea or Nay ?
It's sad when a child outshines her semi-celebrity dad before puberty.
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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:50 pm
by abbey
Can you send me some of your sunshine ACC? :-6
It's 11.25 pm here and I've put my furry boots on cos I'm chilly!
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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 4:40 pm
by Accountable
Kathy Ellen;966369 wrote: How's school going Accountable...hope well:-6School's great, thanks. All the weird confusion and unique circumstances that is special education are starting to smooth out. They told me today that instead of teaching algebra in the first period it would be 9th and 10th grade English. It's kind of hard to take things too seriously when you get hits with things like that, so you just shrug and go sign for the new set of books.
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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 4:41 pm
by Accountable
abbey;966375 wrote: Can you send me some of your sunshine ACC? :-6
It's 11.25 pm here and I've put my furry boots on cos I'm chilly!
You look positively blue!
I'll pack some up for you and post it over. :-6:-6
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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 4:51 pm
by abbey
Accountable;966399 wrote: You look positively blue!
I'll pack some up for you and post it over. :-6:-6Thankyou hon, I knew having lived over here you'd understand.:-4
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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 6:24 pm
by Kathy Ellen
Accountable;966396 wrote: School's great, thanks. All the weird confusion and unique circumstances that is special education are starting to smooth out. They told me today that instead of teaching algebra in the first period it would be 9th and 10th grade English. It's kind of hard to take things too seriously when you get hits with things like that, so you just shrug and go sign for the new set of books.
That's awful Accountable

I teach regular ed , but we have inclusion and resource room. You never know from one minute to the next what changes our CST team will make at the last minute or during the year:-5 Geeze, how do you have the mindset to go from Algebra to English??
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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 6:32 pm
by Accountable
Kathy Ellen;966469 wrote: That's awful Accountable

I teach regular ed , but we have inclusion and resource room. You never know from one minute to the next what changes our CST team will make at the last minute or during the year:-5 Geeze, how do you have the mindset to go from Algebra to English??
:wah: I teach all high school core subjects and two electives. My mind is mush. Mush is very pliable.

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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 7:57 pm
by Clint
Did you watch Obama's acceptance speech?
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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 8:14 pm
by Odie
love those texas accents!
:yh_bigsmi
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Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 3:04 am
by Accountable
Clint;966544 wrote: Did you watch Obama's acceptance speach?
Outstanding speech! Big props to the next Great Communicator. Too bad he's not running for governor, since most of the changes he wants to make are supposed to be the states' jurisdiction.
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Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 3:06 am
by Accountable
Odie;966557 wrote: love those texas accents!
:yh_bigsmi
Thanks! I'm a transplant from Louisiana, but back home we all talk like we's from West Texas anyway.

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Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 6:21 am
by sunny104
what do you have for breakfast on a school day?

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Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 4:10 pm
by Nomad
Why did you join the service ?
Would you do it again ?
Was it beneficial ?
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Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 6:24 pm
by Accountable
sunny104;966767 wrote: what do you have for breakfast on a school day?

Hot oatmeal, 6 cups of cofee, multivitamin & an extra vitamin C. :yh_hypno
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Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 6:28 pm
by Accountable
[quote=Nomad;967333]Why did you join the service ? - A guy I respected recommended it. I didn't have other plans at the time.
Would you do it again ? Absolutely, and for the right reasons this time.
Was it beneficial ? It made me a man. I really was a slug without direction before the Air Force.
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Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 7:17 pm
by Clint
Do you think Palin will help return power to the States?
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Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 7:59 pm
by Odie
Accountable;966689 wrote: Thanks! I'm a transplant from Louisiana, but back home we all talk like we's from West Texas anyway.
whenever I used to talk at work to folks down in Texas, I would keep them on the phone, the accent is just like you can`t get enough of it!
Us folk here don`t have any accent is your a real Canadian, we just have our own slang language eh!
beer me eh!
you hoser eh!..................that is a friend.
gotta love Doug and Bob McKenzie!
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Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 4:21 am
by Accountable
Clint;967435 wrote: Do you think Palin will help return power to the States?
Dunno. That'd mean undoing all the damage McCain or Obama does first.
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Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 6:46 am
by Odie
Accountable;967607 wrote: Dunno. That'd mean undoing all the damage McCain or Obama does first.
which one looks like a good president?
haven't been following much.
I still like Bush!
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Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 7:26 am
by Accountable
Odie;967727 wrote: which one looks like a good president?
haven't been following much.
I still like Bush!
I think the constitution will be completely ignored and abused for at least the next four years regardless.

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Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 7:45 am
by chonsigirl
How was the first week of school?

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Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 8:21 am
by RedGlitter
Have you always been a Libertarian?
What attracted you to the party?
Do you enjoy poetry?
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Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 8:27 am
by Accountable
chonsigirl;967775 wrote: How was the first week of school?

Much smoother than expected. I have a very angry young man who was clearly led to believe that he would be out of the behavior unit this year. I think his teachers told him what he wanted to hear just to have a little peace. Now I'm cleaning up the mess. BUT, standard active listening and empathy has him focused on a 6-week plan that puts full responsibility in his hands. Working with him earned respect for me from the other students as well.
That, combined with a smaller class than I expected leaves me enough energy to take on the rest of the chaos that the first of the year brings. I'm a happy man! :-6
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Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 8:31 am
by Accountable
RedGlitter;967803 wrote: Have you always been a Libertarian?
What attracted you to the party?
Do you enjoy poetry?
I'm more a libertarian, little L, I think. Have I always been one? No. I was an apathetic slug until I was near 30.

The more I studied and listened, the more I realize how far from our foundation the Constitution provides we have strayed and continue to stray. Just once I want to hear someone ask a politician 'what will you do for me?' receive the answer "I'll get out of your way."
Poetry rarely moves me, but music can make me cry.
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Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 8:34 am
by chonsigirl
Let us know in 6 weeks how he does! Good for you, AC.
I got the girl who had 4 teachers sent away for awhile last year. She has a personal assistant this year. *yikes, I have her twice too* But she has done her work all week long in my classes, so I am hoping she has matured over the summer. It was a good week for me too.
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Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 9:02 am
by Accountable
chonsigirl;967812 wrote: Let us know in 6 weeks how he does! Good for you, AC.
I got the girl who had 4 teachers sent away for awhile last year. She has a personal assistant this year. *yikes, I have her twice too* But she has done her work all week long in my classes, so I am hoping she has matured over the summer. It was a good week for me too.
:yh_party Good for you! Good for her!
I'm convinced it's style and approach as much as anything.
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Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 5:04 pm
by along-for-the-ride
Here is a caricature of how I see my friend, Accountable.

Waddya think??
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