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Odds & Ends & Quotes
ODDS & ENDS
Lost opening credits, Buffy style / (via).
Hey there! MarsPhoenix is using Twitter / (via).
QUOTES
Rolling in graves is what keeps the earth rotating / badgermirlacca.
After 17 years as a librarian, I am finally making the same salary I was making when I left my job in banking to go to library school! Yay me! / stinkycheez.
Customer’s Boyfriend: “But really, what do you need batteries for?” / Not Always Right.
"You can call it plagiarism if you want," [Sheriff] Vasquez said. "I'm just providing a public service." / East Valley Tribune.
Depending on the wind during takeoff, it's entirely possible for the aircraft not to be airborne by the end of the airstrip. "Instead," he says, "you shoot off the end of the airstrip, then drop down the 2,000-foot cliff face until you start flying." / Travel and Leisure.
LONG QUOTE
(quoted in its entirety because I can't figure out how to link directly to it)
Sorry to be a multi-poster, but I just remembered this story that happened to me in Catholic grade school.
We had this substitute teacher, this really ancient nun named Sister Domatilla.
She's calling the roll, and gets to me:
She says, "Missy, what's your name?"
I told her.
She said "What's your real name?"
Now, I'm in 5th grade, and I'm a little confused.
I told her my name again.
She loses her F-ING mind, pounding her dried out little fist on the desk...
"YOU tell me your real name, little girl!"
(for you non-Catholics, at the time in the early 70's, Jill was considered to be a 'pagan' name since it wasn't a saint's name - it was a derivation of Julia, who was a saint)
I said, "Sister, Jill is my real name."
I'm in tears because she's freaking out and I think I'm in trouble.
She screams, "That's not your real name because it isn't in the Catholic Book of Names!"
Jeeze...at this point, I don't know what to do.
The entire class was so quiet you could have heard the second coming of Christ.
She sends me to the principal's office for being insubordinate, and when I tell them why I'm there, they just kinda roll their eyes.
They kept me in the office, reading my assigment until the change of class. We never saw Sister Domatilla again.
Posted by: jilldini
ODDS & ENDS
Lost opening credits, Buffy style / (via).
Hey there! MarsPhoenix is using Twitter / (via).
QUOTES
Rolling in graves is what keeps the earth rotating / badgermirlacca.
After 17 years as a librarian, I am finally making the same salary I was making when I left my job in banking to go to library school! Yay me! / stinkycheez.
Customer’s Boyfriend: “But really, what do you need batteries for?” / Not Always Right.
"You can call it plagiarism if you want," [Sheriff] Vasquez said. "I'm just providing a public service." / East Valley Tribune.
Depending on the wind during takeoff, it's entirely possible for the aircraft not to be airborne by the end of the airstrip. "Instead," he says, "you shoot off the end of the airstrip, then drop down the 2,000-foot cliff face until you start flying." / Travel and Leisure.
LONG QUOTE
(quoted in its entirety because I can't figure out how to link directly to it)
Sorry to be a multi-poster, but I just remembered this story that happened to me in Catholic grade school.
We had this substitute teacher, this really ancient nun named Sister Domatilla.
She's calling the roll, and gets to me:
She says, "Missy, what's your name?"
I told her.
She said "What's your real name?"
Now, I'm in 5th grade, and I'm a little confused.
I told her my name again.
She loses her F-ING mind, pounding her dried out little fist on the desk...
"YOU tell me your real name, little girl!"
(for you non-Catholics, at the time in the early 70's, Jill was considered to be a 'pagan' name since it wasn't a saint's name - it was a derivation of Julia, who was a saint)
I said, "Sister, Jill is my real name."
I'm in tears because she's freaking out and I think I'm in trouble.
She screams, "That's not your real name because it isn't in the Catholic Book of Names!"
Jeeze...at this point, I don't know what to do.
The entire class was so quiet you could have heard the second coming of Christ.
She sends me to the principal's office for being insubordinate, and when I tell them why I'm there, they just kinda roll their eyes.
They kept me in the office, reading my assigment until the change of class. We never saw Sister Domatilla again.
Posted by: jilldini
