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« Reply #30 on: January 21, 2010, 03:24:38 PM » |
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You're Catholic? Oooh, that explains so much! No wonder you always feel guilty about everything! You're a good Catholic girl!
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First it was Wolfram and Hart, now it's Blackboard. There's not much moral difference, if you ask me. -- Malcha
Grammar is the chocolate in the buttery croissant of life. -- Yellowtractor
Okay, so that was petty. Today, I feel like embracing pettiness. -- Mended Drum
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« Reply #31 on: January 21, 2010, 03:29:03 PM » |
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I know. Mr. Oseph's favorite line during arguments: "That is so CATHOLIC of you to think this is about your failings." My response: "It is so PROTESTANT of you not to think about yours at all."
All the good Catholic women in my family marry Episcopalians.
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Oseph....you are right and you make sense.
For your future comments, I insult very directly.
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« Reply #32 on: January 21, 2010, 03:39:52 PM » |
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Obedience brings victory, and victory is life.
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Render unto Geedorah what is Geedorah's.
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« Reply #33 on: January 21, 2010, 05:00:02 PM » |
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I had a terrorist teacher in the second grade, Sr. Mary Katherine, who used to smack me for writing with my left hand. I am no longer left-handed.
This reminds me of Sister Mary Dracula. |
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« Reply #34 on: January 21, 2010, 05:53:30 PM » |
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I had a terrorist teacher in the second grade, Sr. Mary Katherine, who used to smack me for writing with my left hand. I am no longer left-handed.
This reminds me of Sister Mary Dracula. OMG that's hill LARRY us! The St. Egregius School Store is down, though! |
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Dr. Anakin sits high and mightily in her office while she condemns students to lives of misery and drudgery, washing out their husbands' underwear in filthy water. In addition, she is a horrible teacher. She welcomes you to Introduction to Biology!
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« Reply #35 on: January 22, 2010, 09:33:16 AM » |
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I got to this thread rather late, so: When I taught comp at an urban university in a big industrial city as a MA student a long time ago, I used, early in the term, to ask students what the nuns did if they misused any of its, it's, or (worst of all) its'. The unanimous response was: the nun drew a small circle on the blackboard with chalk and made the offender stand with his or her nose in that circle for the rest of the class period.
The next time I handed back papers that had such errors, I would give them to the students, move silently to the blackboard, draw the circle, and look meaningly at the class. Half a dozen students would flinch. Often one of them would volunteer to be the victim. The errors disappeared in subsequent assignments.
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« Reply #36 on: January 22, 2010, 10:21:33 AM » |
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I had a terrorist teacher in the second grade, Sr. Mary Katherine, who used to smack me for writing with my left hand. I am no longer left-handed.
This reminds me of Sister Mary Dracula. OMG that's hill LARRY us! The St. Egregius School Store is down, though! I wonder if he was selling school t-shirts? The link to the books works, but I guess we will have no opportunity to show our school spirit in public. I just like the sound effects on the site. |
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« Reply #37 on: January 22, 2010, 01:25:15 PM » |
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The hospital in a small Southern town where I lived was under the direction of an order of nuns. Their convent was a ranch-style house on a street of such houses, across the street from the hospital. The Mother Superior wore the long habit, but the rest of the nuns wore the short one.
One day a local friend and I were walking past the hospital, and she mentioned the "Arab woman" who was the administrator. I explained to her the concept of nuns, which she found very interesting. A few days later, we passed the convent, and saw one of the short-habited nuns sweeping the porch. "Well, look at that," my friend commented, "that nun has a maid!"
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« Reply #38 on: January 25, 2010, 12:44:35 PM » |
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Hi - hope you don't mind my popping in here but I saw I was getting hits from this forum so I thought I should check it out.
I've been working on the graphic novel of "Sister Mary Dracula" for about four years and initially I thought I would publish each chapter as I completed it. I then realized that meant publishing one chapter a year, which didn't seem like the ideal way to build readership!
So after I published chapter two I decided to complete the entire 125-page work before I went back to promoting it...hence the "school store" being down at the moment. I expect the entire book to be finished by the end of 2010 at which time I'll return to doing promotional stuff, maybe even doing a blog! Hey, do people still do blogs? I found that building the store, publishing the chapters, etc. took too much time away from actually creating the work, so that's where my focus is for now.
Thanks for your interest!
Gerry Mooney
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