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#28 2005-02-14 7:07 pm
Re: Purple Snake
debbiedowner wrote:
Do you think the people who write these tests at the state level have any idea whatsoever how the typical eighth-graders' minds and hormones work!
I think they should have prefaced the poem by saying, "IT'S A COCK, THIS POEM IS ABOUT A COCK" and then asked the kids what else it could be about. Like on Sex Education for Trainables when the teacher asked the retards for synonyms for penis. They got their giggles out and then discussed the serious issues.
I'm going to slap your ass so hard, your bell-bottoms will be ringing.
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#29 2005-02-14 7:09 pm
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Re: Purple Snake
Kirk wrote:
Oats - You had a pre-wedding party at your Mom's house?! Dude, come visit LA. I'll give you real bachelor party posthumously.
Wouldn't that have to be over Oats' dead body? (God forbid!) A posthumous bachelor party has a specific name: an Irish wake.
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#30 2005-02-14 9:35 pm
Re: Purple Snake
Kirk wrote:
Oats - You had a pre-wedding party at your Mom's house?! Dude, come visit LA. I'll give you real bachelor party posthumously.
Yeah, I'd just flown in from the West Coast the night before. I didn't have an actual bachelor party.
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#31 2005-02-14 10:49 pm
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Re: Purple Snake
Fried Chicken wrote:
Elwood wrote:
Fried Chicken wrote:
This is so funny, I'll let my 14 year old hormones print this out and show it to my friends who like to make fun of the education system.
What he said...plus "Thank you untraceable speedy laser printing"
What, it was a joke, I won't print it out...
Hmm, I was being serious. Things like this manage to get around my entire class in a day or two (I'm talking 1400 people). It really is quite amazing.
Such was the case in late december when one freshman figured out that by typing [specific word here]@siprep.org, they could send an email to every student's personal email address. When everyone replied telling them to shut up, they didn't erase the "everyone" email from the address bar, meaning that most of us woke up one morning to over 150 messages saying something along the lines of "STOP SENDING ME THIS CRAP." Hi freaking larious, and nobody fixed anything yet either.
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#32 2005-02-14 10:52 pm
Re: Purple Snake
debbiedowner wrote:
Kirk wrote:
Oats - You had a pre-wedding party at your Mom's house?! Dude, come visit LA. I'll give you real bachelor party posthumously.
Wouldn't that have to be over Oats' dead body? (God forbid!) A posthumous bachelor party has a specific name: an Irish wake.
Yes, that was a joke or more accurately a double entendre. If I gave him a real bachelor party now, his wife might have to kill him. 
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#33 2005-02-15 12:59 am
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#34 2005-02-15 1:58 am
Re: Purple Snake
Best bachelor party I ever went to - we went to a bowling alley and then to a pizza joint, and then returned to campus to play softball against the women who had just had their bachlorette party.
It was a riot.
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Jenny had a pistol in the other
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#35 2005-02-15 7:44 am
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Re: Purple Snake
Phydeaux wrote:
The poem isn't even that good.
These government folk should really dig up the hippies that were a part of a poetry writing troupe I belonged to:Barbara Sanchez wrote:
I tossed my Care
Bears away
and traded My
Little Ponies for
a pack of cigarettes.
I gave my Cookie
Monster to
the dog.
Now I'm drinking
iced caffe lattes
and snorting lines
of CNN
on my cell phone.
A Barbie hangs
from a noose
tied to my SUV's rear-
view mirror. I see my face
looking back.
For the record, I did NOT throw away my Care Bear, it was torn to pieces when I used it to beat my little brother over the head.
As for the poem? meh.
"Now commences the process of cutting off the head, which generally takes from an hour to an hour and a half by an expert workman with a sharp blade." -Reuben Delano, Wanderings and Adventures
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#36 2005-02-15 9:48 am
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Re: Purple Snake
dvpierce wrote:
Phydeaux wrote:
The poem isn't even that good. [poem]
For the record, I did NOT throw away my Care Bear, it was torn to pieces when I used it to beat my little brother over the head.
As for the poem? meh.
Either you're pretty grumpy come morning, dv, or authoritah is going to your head... or something.
Kirk wrote:
debbiedowner wrote:
Kirk wrote:
Oats - You had a pre-wedding party at your Mom's house?! Dude, come visit LA. I'll give you real bachelor party posthumously.
Wouldn't that have to be over Oats' dead body? (God forbid!) A posthumous bachelor party has a specific name: an Irish wake.
Yes, that was a joke or more accurately a double entendre. If I gave him a real bachelor party now, his wife might have to kill him.
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#37 2006-01-20 4:04 pm
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Re: Purple Snake
I took this test just today, I didn't find it gross or anything like that. And are you sure it's:
"rough and wrinkled. Like his hands."
And not:
"rough and wrinkled."
I'm not sure I remember that sentance being in there.
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#38 2006-01-20 4:10 pm
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Re: Purple Snake
Don't bring the dead back to life. For a second I thought DD had come back to MAPH.
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The recent medical controversy over whether vaccinations cause autism reveals a habit of human cognition—thinking anecdotally comes naturally, whereas thinking scientifically does not. -- Michael Shermer
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#39 2006-01-20 4:11 pm
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Re: Purple Snake
I found the correct lines:
Slowly he strokes the wood,
rough and wrinkled. Like his hands.
He begins to carve his way.
“Mira. Its head, its scales, its tail.”
Snakes don't have legs or necks. Jeez.
ChickenHawk: I didn't know it was dead, I found it on Google.
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#40 2006-01-20 6:32 pm
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No, this was a dead thread. Don't revive dead threads.
The recent medical controversy over whether vaccinations cause autism reveals a habit of human cognition—thinking anecdotally comes naturally, whereas thinking scientifically does not. -- Michael Shermer
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#41 2006-01-20 7:01 pm
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Re: Purple Snake
Chickenhawk wrote:
Don't bring the dead back to life. For a second I thought DD had come back to MAPH.
You should be so lucky. 
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#42 2006-01-20 7:27 pm
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Re: Purple Snake
I don't even remember why you left... welcome back though.
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#43 2006-01-20 8:19 pm
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Re: Purple Snake
Chickenhawk wrote:
No, this was a dead thread. Don't revive dead threads.
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#44 2006-01-20 8:34 pm
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Re: Purple Snake
Pariah wrote:
Chickenhawk wrote:
No, this was a dead thread. Don't revive dead threads.
Mod wannabe
No.
I'm not decalfine.
The recent medical controversy over whether vaccinations cause autism reveals a habit of human cognition—thinking anecdotally comes naturally, whereas thinking scientifically does not. -- Michael Shermer
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