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Post by bats on Dec 7, 2007 17:16:36 GMT -5
My teachers were the only ones who ever got creative. I think the funniest one I ever heard was when my 10th grade math teacher asked me whether I had dog or human excrement for a brain. Of course I replied neither, after all she should have known it was bat shit. I should explain that, I have a tattoo of bats.
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Post by The Star Fox on Dec 7, 2007 20:03:14 GMT -5
guano for brains. Now that is a new one. My favorite was "So Mr. Fox the only question left are you as much of a vapid narcissists as I can see you being, or perhaps you only look in the mirror for a few hours more than your female counter parts." It was said so nonchalantly that I was barely able to formulate a response. At which point I said, "Only if you consider your daughter's eyes mirrors. Well her and your windows, since my lifeless reflection is far more entertaining than your monotone drone."
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Post by bats on Dec 7, 2007 20:55:47 GMT -5
That's an interesting one.
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Post by The Star Fox on Dec 7, 2007 22:18:23 GMT -5
ehhh well needless to say he didn't try me again. Especially since his daughter was 2 years below me ^^ I am not sure if you realize the sexual connotations of what I said, it goes with something in Hebrew. He and I actually got along really well after that.
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Post by bats on Dec 9, 2007 0:14:06 GMT -5
I recognized the sexual part, but I don't know the Hebrew part, would you explain, please.
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Post by Trey on Dec 9, 2007 14:35:59 GMT -5
Fox, don't bring out the longest non-scientific word in the English language just to try and look cool. You're going to have to try harder than that.
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Post by misaki on Dec 9, 2007 16:04:20 GMT -5
I was lucky enough to attend a high school that was just about the complete opposite of any high school that you might see in any teen movie. Of course, there were the petty rivalries and whatnot, but by the time I reached my senior year, our class was really tight. We didn't really have many cliches--there were the popular kids, of course, and the rednecks and everyone else, but usually everyone had friends in other groups and in our classes we could have any sort of discussion and feel entirely comfortable talking with each other. I didn't enjoy school, but I loved coming to school every day because of the atmosphere it had.
I think the single-most great experience was (and it was a pity we all seemed to realize this so late, because I saw people discussing it on Facebook later) the night of our graduation, when our class was taken out on Lake Champlain on a rented ferry, so the whole bottom was a dance floor, and there was just this awesome time towards the end when almost everyone on the boat was down there dancing, and (I think it was when we were moshing to Spice Girls; I seem to remember that very clearly) we were all packed against each other and jumping around. I was next to these people that I'd hardly ever associated with outside of school, and we were all holding hands and laughing our heads off, and it didn't matter.
So...yeah...that's my story. >__>
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Post by The Star Fox on Dec 9, 2007 16:48:24 GMT -5
Bats what I said in English, when said in Hebrew means something much more sexual than the English version.
Misaki in the highschool I teach at, the star cheerleader is impregnated by the ex-star football player.
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Post by misaki on Dec 9, 2007 17:53:12 GMT -5
In my school, the cheerleaders were the slutty rednecks, not the popular girls. Our few "jocks" were also rednecks (but even they were super nice!). The real popular kids were the intelligent ones. (And yeah, everyone knew that they were all sleeping with each other, but no one ever got pregnant.) I feel lucky to have gone to such a school. ^^;;
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Post by Clover on Dec 9, 2007 18:27:48 GMT -5
God.. Misaki, thats sort of like the school I went to. Art school, so really kind of exclusive. It was an us vs world mentality a lot of the time. I dunno.. it was a really nice environment. I mean, there were cliques, but it was less "Geeks" vs "Sluts" vs "Cheerleaders". It was really more a friendly rivalry between the Trumpet Players and the Trombonists, who had 'beef' with the Percussionists because they couldn't bang a drum the right way if they tried. You know, stuff like that. And I mean, there wasn't any one unpopular person, or anything. We were all close-knit--there were only about 100 grads. My entire school probably hit about 450 kids, max, which is NOTHING. Also, if there were any teen pregnancies, they were remarkably well-hidden. And the profs were awesome;
Also, bat guano DOES make you insane. It's also a possible carrier for the Ebola virus. ^_^ There's a reason you call someone "batshit insane".
Also, Fox, were you a teacher or a student during this witty repartee? Since the daughter was two years younger then you, but you were obviously conversing with someone as an equal? I guess since this was in Hebrew, it was before you moved to the US-- were you in the Armed Forces then?
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Post by misaki on Dec 9, 2007 18:38:45 GMT -5
Oh man, I wish I had gone to an art high school; that's so cool! XD I'm guessing that part of the reason, like with your school, was that my school was so small. Even with our junior high as part of my high school, there were only about 1000 students; my graduating class was 155. I loved being in such a small community.
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Post by Rick Garcia on Dec 9, 2007 20:49:17 GMT -5
I was in the IB program all through high school. My year started off with 315 (?) students in freshman year. By the time we graduated, there were only 50 of us left. Seriously. That many dropped out. I guess they couldn't handle it. ((Kinda wish I'd gotten the IB diploma, though. That would've been nice. At least I have my high school diploma and I survived IB.))
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Post by The Star Fox on Dec 9, 2007 20:57:10 GMT -5
Also, Fox, were you a teacher or a student during this witty repartee? Since the daughter was two years younger then you, but you were obviously conversing with someone as an equal? I guess since this was in Hebrew, it was before you moved to the US-- were you in the Armed Forces then? I was still in Secondary School there. It was like prep high school in the US where you live there. I was such a jack arse that I felt it was fine to speak to him as an equal. Does that makes sense? I am not sure I worded it properly
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Post by bats on Dec 10, 2007 17:27:05 GMT -5
Wow I knew about the insanity, but I didn't know about the Ebola, thanks Clover. Thanks Fox for explaining.
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Post by child-of-fae on Dec 10, 2007 23:06:26 GMT -5
everyone's a geek at my highschool. I go to a college prep, so there's 'foundations' which is more challenging than regualr highschool work. then there's honors, which is the majority of the school, it's like top honors/first honors curriculum. then there's what you'd call the "honors-honors". This is much more intense than any other program. getting a B in you classes would be an A in any other non-college-prep school. some of the best athletes are in my classes. (i'm in the "honors-honors" only 40 kids were accepted into the program. i feel so lucky, especially since you automatically get 1000 to your scholarship for being in the program.) heck, i'm a jock/geek/"emogothpunkwhathaveyou" <- as described by my peers there really aren't many cliques, at least not in the "h-h" program. i don't know many people from the regular honors classes.
my school's also known as the Prude School. a lot of my guy friends went to the Slut School instead. wonder why...
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