Scary Mall Trip with grade school art and E.T. in a box
Schwa Love
game store on a quest to find "Theme Hospital" for Playstation. I go to
the mall once or twice a year, as it is a very scary place to me.
There were several art projects from the local school district on display.
I don't understand how certain projects that are kept within such rigid
guidelines to create are supposed to encourage creativity. For example,
there were ten projects where third-grade students were made to paint a
chunk of cut wood like a green cat and glue it to a grey and black swirl
that they painted. Ten projects which might as well have been exactly the
same.
"Teacher, can I paint my cat purple?"
"No. Paint it green."
"Why not?"
"Because I'm trying to make a point that if all of you are given the
same exact guidelines to do the same exact project, they will still all be
slightly different."
"Is this to show how creativity can shine through even under the most
rigid of guidelines?"
"No. This is just to show that even though you have all been given
specific instructions on the project, you will all get it wrong Wrong
WRONG!"
Another art project on display was one where several children were sent
into the forest with cameras to take pictures of found art amongst the
trees. Or they could break some branches and make something pretty out of
the branches and take a picture. So what happens? You get thirty
different photos of Blair Witch Art Projects.
We went to the candy store looking for rare Pez dispensers, but they
didn't have any. They did have a candy similar to Zotz! and those little
seseame-honey hamster treats, so I was happy.
We next went to Hot Topic, the... uh goth/punk/hardcore store owned by
the GAP that is aimed at goth/punk/hardcore mallrats. I don't understand
the place. For some reason, it smelled like a Gart Bros. or the sports
department at Sears. It had the odor of two hundred brand new basketballs.
Perhaps it was all the fake leather.
Next on the list was Babbages, to search for a copy of Theme Hospital,
which they of course didn't have. I did finally cave into internet peer
pressure and by Black and White, the best video game to ever come out based
on a controversial Michael Jackson video. Mez got the Evil Dead game.
The final stop was Kaybee toys, where we went to look at all the crap
Toys'R'Us threw out six months ago. The best thing was the talking E.T.
from the makers of Furby! It knows 400 words and can talk to you and you
can teach it more words! It can interact with other Furbies! On the box
it explains who E.T. is and how his multimillion dollar film captured the
hearts of so many children in 1982. You know, just in case you need
justification to spend forty-five bucks on your seven-year-old to purchase
a toy that's based on a character that was popular nineteen years ago.
"Dad? What's this thing?"
"It's E.T.! I used to love him as a kid."
"Then why don't you marry him. Now leave me alone, I need to finish
charging my megazord to capture seventeen more Chaharazarads to sell on e-
bay."
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Brian Palmer
> We next went to Hot Topic, the... uh goth/punk/hardcore store owned by
> the GAP that is aimed at goth/punk/hardcore mallrats.
You know, a goth/punk hardware store could be cool, too. Then a goth
Tim Allen could go and the bemohawked Al would give him good advice
about how to deal with wacky Jill.
> Next on the list was Babbages, to search for a copy of Theme Hospital,
> which they of course didn't have. I did finally cave into internet peer
> pressure and by Black and White,
By black and white, I think he's got it!
> The final stop was Kaybee toys, where we went to look at all the crap
> Toys'R'Us threw out six months ago. The best thing was the talking E.T.
> from the makers of Furby! It knows 400 words and can talk to you and you
> can teach it more words! It can interact with other Furbies!
Wah! The furby has more of a social life than I do!
--
Command link severed. Default setting. Crush, Kill, Destroy.
Luke Breinig
schw...@qwest.net says...
> We next went to Hot Topic, the... uh goth/punk/hardcore store owned by
> the GAP that is aimed at goth/punk/hardcore mallrats.
SSC: Most of the T-shirts I own, that I actually paid for*, came from
there. You see, they have shirts bearing the names and likeness of ATARI
games there! Apparently "ravers" (which I understand are a type of
"goth") think its RILLY KEWL to wear shirts with Atari logos on them, but
little did they know that they had crossed over from goth/punk/hardcore
to the virtually untapped "nerd" market.
* A good percentage of my T-shirts are ones that I got for free from
software or hardware vendors. All the rest of them either say "Atari" or
"Lunix" or "Amiga".
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Joe Manfre
>Apparently "ravers" (which I understand are a type of
>"goth")
Wait a minute. Goths wear dark clothes, while ravers wear bright
clothes, right? Or am I hopelessly out of the loop again?
Consarn it, it's only been six years since I was a teenager.
JM
--
Joe Manfre, Hyattsville, Maryland.
Schwa Love
(Joe Manfre) was all:
>Luke Breinig (lbre...@alltel.net) wrote:
>
>>Apparently "ravers" (which I understand are a type of
>>"goth")
>
>Wait a minute. Goths wear dark clothes, while ravers wear bright
>clothes, right? Or am I hopelessly out of the loop again?
Well, yeah. It's just that Hot Topic allows both to shop in the same spot,
weather you're looking for KMFDM tees or PowerPuff Girl bellyshirts, Doc
Martens or glowsticks, black nail polish or glitter.
Besides, there are the occasional few that consider themselves to be goth
ravers (or "gravers") out there. You know, like a disco punk?
>Consarn it, it's only been six years since I was a teenager.
Haw haw! Are you so behind the times that you don't even know about the
following:
= Pringle's Puffs
= Telecircus freeranging
= Nabisco "Blorch"
= Midnight Circuitswimming
= Xenogasmosis
= Brighton Acrobat Shimmiers
= Rubik's Vagina
= SkronkEz!
Get with the times! You're still stuck in the past with your "Scooters"
and "Body Modification" and "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" and "Tom
Green" and "Pokemon" and "Black & White".
James Kibo Parry
>
> There were several art projects from the local school district on display.
> I don't understand how certain projects that are kept within such rigid
> guidelines to create are supposed to encourage creativity. For example,
> there were ten projects where third-grade students were made to paint a
> chunk of cut wood like a green cat and glue it to a grey and black swirl
> that they painted. Ten projects which might as well have been exactly the
> same.
>
> "Teacher, can I paint my cat purple?"
>
> "No. Paint it green."
>
> "Why not?"
>
> "Because I'm trying to make a point that if all of you are given the
> same exact guidelines to do the same exact project, they will still all be
> slightly different."
>
> "Is this to show how creativity can shine through even under the most
> rigid of guidelines?"
>
> "No. This is just to show that even though you have all been given
> specific instructions on the project, you will all get it wrong Wrong
> WRONG!"
That, and to teach them that all cats are green and have hypnodiscs in
their stomachs.
Or maybe they just couldn't afford any colors of paint. Cat paint is
expensive!
In any case, about the only skills those kids were learning were those
that would come in handy in those Chinese factories that turn out millions
of rice bowls with that same blue goldfish hand-drawn on every one.
I wonder if our jail system punishes criminals by making them do exactly
the same stupid "art projects" (pointless, demeaning busywork) that we had
to do as children. If not, they should. Let a machine make the license
plates. Have the prisoners dip sponge cubes in tempera and smear them on
oaktag, force them to make collages from Mommy's fashion magazines, then give
them a few pipe cleaners to make into a sculpture but because pipe cleaners
are expensive they'll have to straighten them out when they're done.
The clay with the goopy glaze and the kiln was always the worst, you
couldn't possibly make anything that looked as good as the average piece
of slag. Espeically because the glaze always looked like a really faint
pastel when you put it on but then it baked into a gross bile color or
something, and because you were seven you had no idea what the bottle's
foncy-poncy euphemism for "gross bile color" meant.
I still remember the horror of all those "art" periods where as impressionable
youngsters we learned that the word "art" means "do what I say or you'll
be punished. Punishment takes the form of having to repeat this grade
and do exactly what you're doing now. Art means not questioning authority.
The cat will be green."
Then, after the first ten years of school, they continued with this
indoctrination but tried to disguise it by spelling the word "art" as "shop".
I still can't figure out the purpose of some of the objects we made in
shop class, except to waste our time and galvanized sheet steel.
Did anyone ever find a use for any of the things they brought home from shop?
And the amazing thing was that even with such lame pointless projects,
the teacher would still inevitably have lost a finger doing them.
Then in college, the pointless busywork classes are renamed
"Fundamentals Of Graphic Design." In my occasional career as a
graphic designer, I have never been asked to repeat any of the
activities from that course. Nobody has ever paid me to make
an abstract collage or a series of colored squares.
-- K.
I wouldn't be surprised if soon
"writing" courses consist of taking
a copy of "Naked Lunch", cutting
it up, and making a collage.
Joseph Michael Bay
>pastel when you put it on but then it baked into a gross bile color or
>something, and because you were seven you had no idea what the bottle's
>foncy-poncy euphemism for "gross bile color" meant.
YM "Fonzie-ponzi". AYYYY, Potsie, just send ten bucks to this address
and then in three months you'll have $31,200 sent to YOU! AYYYY.
--
Joe Bay FLX NAV VEH CHO
Cancer Biology NUC MEM ATM OIE
Leland Stanford Junior University LIF CNT PAK UNF
Kenton 'The Great Requiem' Cernea
Parry) wrote:
>Did anyone ever find a use for any of the things they brought home from shop?
Yes! I made a cutting board in 1991. My parents still use it. The
other guys in wood shop made speaker cabinets for their car stereos.
Yawn. My cousin, who attended another school, swears up and down that
one of his classmates in ceramics class made a bong.
Another one of our favorite activities in wood shop was shooting craps
with our lunch money. Mark Twain High School taught me the fine arts
of gambling. And people say public education is in the toilet. Pah!
I also took Art II in my senior year, and my art teacher (who was also
the town mayor) was a rather interesting person. He was a born-again
Christian who listened to Rush, and drew lots of pentagrams on stuff.
He took me and a few of the other art students to a Petra concert. I
still bear the psychological scars.
We studied all the major schools of art, including cubism,
impressionism, expressionism, etc. Due to a complete lack of artistic
talent, all my works came out abstract. AND NOT ON PURPOSE! Does
that make me avant-garde? Should I have kept my work? Would I be
rich now?
Kenton "The Great Requiem" Cernea
President, Tri-State Anime Club
http://www.suteki-enterprises.com
Communicate sunshine days always smile best friend so happy today
happiness.
--the text on my DiGi Charat mousepad
Kev In, Boyz Out
Luke Breinig <lbre...@alltel.net> wrote:
>* A good percentage of my T-shirts are ones that I got for free from
>software or hardware vendors. All the rest of them either say "Atari" or
>"Lunix" or "Amiga".
A couple days ago I paid $70 for a T-shirt. But it's okay because it
comes with free freedom from the evil RIAA. I mean, now that I'm a
member of the EFF, that means I'm immune from copyright law, right? Or
does it only apply to John Perry Barlow lyrics? I hope not, 'cause
Robert Hunter is a much better poet.
Need more nihon-cha.
-Kev "yeah, I'm a member" in
P tobler
In article <kibo-03050...@ppp0c088.std.com>, ki...@world.std.com (James
"Kibo" Parry) wrote:
<< I still can't figure out the purpose of some of the objects we made in
shop class, except to waste our time and galvanized sheet steel.
Did anyone ever find a use for any of the things they brought home from shop?
>>
I made a battery tester in electric shop. It worked fine in class and I got an
A (mostly because I was the only one who did something other than a lamp made
out of an aluminum can), but when I got home, it magically transformed into a
shocking machine that I used on my brother. The moral of the story is that
electric shop is much more useful in real life than metal shop. Or maybe it's
that only those with younger siblings to torture belong in shop classes.
Paula
Luke Breinig
req...@nemonet.com says...
> On Fri, 4 May 2001 00:23:30 GMT, ki...@world.std.com (James "Kibo"
> Parry) wrote:
>
> >Did anyone ever find a use for any of the things they brought home from shop?
>
> Yes! I made a cutting board in 1991. My parents still use it.
I made a set of salt & pepper shakers.
> My cousin, who attended another school, swears up and down that
> one of his classmates in ceramics class made a bong.
Like who DIDN'T make a bong in either shop or art class?
> I also took Art II in my senior year, and my art teacher (who was also
> the town mayor) was a rather interesting person. He was a born-again
> Christian who listened to Rush, and drew lots of pentagrams on stuff.
???
Oh, I guess you mean the BAND Rush, and not Rush Limbaugh.
> He took me and a few of the other art students to a Petra concert. I
> still bear the psychological scars.
Care to elaborate for the group?
> We studied all the major schools of art, including cubism,
> impressionism, expressionism, etc. Due to a complete lack of artistic
> talent, all my works came out abstract. AND NOT ON PURPOSE!
When I was in fifth grade, my art teacher told me "Luke, your painting
style doesn't start looking nice until you've completed the whole
picture." This was a nice way of saying "Luke, you have no artistic
talent whatsoever. Don't even bother trying anymore."
Kenton 'The Great Requiem' Cernea
wrote:
>In article <r8v3ftcq5nhcrnmcs...@4ax.com>,
>req...@nemonet.com says...
>> I also took Art II in my senior year, and my art teacher (who was also
>> the town mayor) was a rather interesting person. He was a born-again
>> Christian who listened to Rush, and drew lots of pentagrams on stuff.
>
>???
>
>Oh, I guess you mean the BAND Rush, and not Rush Limbaugh.
Yes. The band. As in 2112.
>> He took me and a few of the other art students to a Petra concert. I
>> still bear the psychological scars.
>
>Care to elaborate for the group?
Okay! Petra, in case any of you don't know, is (was?) a Christian
rock band who hit their peak of popularity in the late 1980's. The
lead singer is John Schlitt, who was also the lead singer of the 70's
rock band Head East.
Anyway, the concert was rather interesting. Petra was your typical
80's Christian Big Hair Band with a message for the younguns. The
stage was set up with a large chrome-plated cross that was sort of
leaning over like a ramp... well, it's impossible to explain, so
here's an ASCII picture:
______
\ \ |-------|(Except, it leaned over a bit more in
\ \ |DRUMMER| reality.)
\ \ |--HERE-|
____ \_____|-------|
\ o o \
\ /|\ /|\ \
\/_\ /_\__\<---KEYBOARDIST
^ \ \
| \ \
GUITARIST\ o \
----> \ /|\ \
SINGER \/ \ \
\ \
\______\
And anyway, they played their peppy 80's synth-rock music and
everybody was happy and singing along, and there was a door prize
given away (A shiny red Fender Stratocaster, won by an old private
school classmate of mine who was later arrested for selling oregano
and claiming it was pot. IANMTU). At the end of the concert, there
was the regular encore, followed by AN ALTAR CALL! Yes, just like in
church, there was an altar call! I'll bet Rush doesn't have altar
calls at their shows!
I still have the ticket stub, btw.
Benjamin William Allard
> Wait a minute. Goths wear dark clothes, while ravers wear bright
> clothes, right? Or am I hopelessly out of the loop again?
I think that if you know what usenet is you're not allowed to ever be in
the loop. Otherwise:
http://www.seanbaby.com/oldstuff/fiction/rave.html
I would also like to say I am very sad not to have access to a highspeed
internet connection anymore, because of which half the programs on my
computer are useless. I also forgot to uninstall novell network
applications, and they're switching to windoze next year.
--ben
And knowing is half the battle.
> At the end of the concert, there
>was the regular encore,
How in kibo's name can there be a 'regular' encore?
Joshua E Millard
>
>I would also like to say I am very sad not to have access to a highspeed
>internet connection anymore, because of which half the programs on my
>computer are useless. I also forgot to uninstall novell network
>applications, and they're switching to windoze next year.
HAW HAW! U SHULD HAS GOT DSL LIKE ME! MY TIN RUNS LIKE A MOHTERFUCKENG
CHEETER!
COLEGE STUDENTS R DUM!
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|..$| # Josh Millard #
|.@'.##########################################################
|<d.| # pu...@wpi.edu # www.wpi.edu/~pulp - music, words, etc #
+---+ ########################################################
Benjamin William Allard
> HAW HAW! U SHULD HAS GOT DSL LIKE ME! MY TIN RUNS LIKE A MOHTERFUCKENG
> CHEETER!
I don't even have internet access anymore. I can't use half the software
on my computer. On the plus side I did manage to gather an impressive
archive of pr0^H^H^Hwar3^H^H^H^Hfluffy bunnies and nice things before I
lost my connection.
> COLEGE STUDENTS R DUM!
HAW HAW UR N0T GRAADUATERDD SO THEERRR4 UR ASLO DUM!!! QUID POR QWOE, WITH
LOJICK!!!
--ben
I would also like to add that I am watching Championship Rugby League RN!
It's kind of like soccer, except everyone is cheating all the time and
someone let the air out of the ball.
Schwa Love
Benjamin William Allard <bal...@wpi.edu> was all:
>On 2 May 2001, Joe Manfre wrote:
>
>> Wait a minute. Goths wear dark clothes, while ravers wear bright
>> clothes, right? Or am I hopelessly out of the loop again?
>
>I think that if you know what usenet is you're not allowed to ever be in
>the loop. Otherwise:
>
>http://www.seanbaby.com/oldstuff/fiction/rave.html
ITYM http://www.seanbaby.com/oldstuff/fiction/rave.htm
HTH!
-- Schwa ---
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Love is never having to say your safe word.
Schwa Love
Great Requiem' Cernea <req...@nemonet.com> was all:
From what I've seen of Christian bands (Several years ago I dated a woman
who was between Christian bands at the time and she took me to a several
concerts), they usually ended their shows with a kind of "If you want to
hear what this Jesus thing is all about come to the stage and chat with us"
speech, once everyone's done with their sets. Of course, half these shows
I was at were free shows at churches.
-- Schwa ---
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Love is never having to say your safe word.
Crgre Jvyyneq
2001 02:06:04 GMT]
> I think that if you know what usenet is you're not allowed
> to ever be in the loop. Otherwise:
>
> http://www.seanbaby.com/oldstuff/fiction/rave.html
.htm of all things.
--
CRGRE
"Have you seen a mountain
in a state of
furious rage and eruption?"
-- Saddam Hussein
Benjamin William Allard
> [Benjamin William Allard, alt.religion.kibology, Sat, 05 May
> 2001 02:06:04 GMT]
>
> > I think that if you know what usenet is you're not allowed
> > to ever be in the loop. Otherwise:
> >
> > http://www.seanbaby.com/oldstuff/fiction/rave.html
>
> .htm of all things.
I would like to thank every single person who has so far pointed out my
small yet significant typo. I blame it on my parents, who have
essentially forced me to post to usenet by chiseling my posts on stone
tablets and forming them into strange and intriguing formations in order
for archeologists to, someday in the far future, discover them and study
them and put them in museums so that Kibot of the 201st century may make
anecdotal comments about them in alton.religion.kibologon. As to the
fascist correction Nazis, I can only invite you to EAT FLAMING NUGGETS OF
CRUNCHY DEATH, HITLER!
Thnak you.
--ben
Crgre Jvyyneq
2001 18:31:32 GMT]
> I can only invite you to EAT FLAMING NUGGETS OF
> CRUNCHY DEATH, HITLER!
>
You and your little ``innocent'' typo made me
rrrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeach over and press the ``<--
Backspace'' key! Now who's the Hiltre?????
Glenn Knickerbocker
>How in kibo's name can there be a 'regular' encore?
You are David Byrne and I claim my half-finished bottle of Stolichnaya.
ŹR / "We know the difference between good and bad corn early in life and
/ have the confidence that comes from such discernment." Chris Squire
http://www.bestweb.net/~notr/ (of Ontario's *London Free Press*)
Luke Breinig
req...@nemonet.com says...
> >Oh, I guess you mean the BAND Rush, and not Rush Limbaugh.
>
> Yes. The band. As in 2112.
I heard that if you listen to 2112 while reading Ayn Rand's _Anthem_,
it's sort of like watching The Wizard of Oz while listening to Dark Side
of the Moon, in that nothing happens. At least that's what I heard.
> Okay! Petra, in case any of you don't know, is (was?) a Christian
> rock band who hit their peak of popularity in the late 1980's. The
> lead singer is John Schlitt, who was also the lead singer of the 70's
> rock band Head East.
I did a quick google search on Petra to see if I could find a picture of
this infamous stage setup, and it seems that they've changed lineups more
than Black Sabbath. From the web site www.petrarocksmyworld.com:
-> According to John Schlitt, Petra's lead singer, Petra is a ministry
-> first and a band second. Petra seeks God's will, and sometimes He
-> directs them to make changes in the band's membership. In 1999, God
-> led Kevin in a new direction, but almost immediately, God sent the
-> band Trent Thomason, his replacement.
Yeah, whatever. Also, Jesus directed Ritchie Blackmore to leave Deep
Purple and make classical guitar albums. Also, they blatantly ripped off
Black Sabbath by releasing an album entitles "Never Say Die" in 1981.
> ______
> \ \ |-------|(Except, it leaned over a bit more in
> \ \ |DRUMMER| reality.)
> \ \ |--HERE-|
> ____ \_____|-------|
> \ o o \
> \ /|\ /|\ \
> \/_\ /_\__\<---KEYBOARDIST
> ^ \ *\<----Perth
> | \ \
> GUITARIST\ o \
> ----> \ /|\ \
> SINGER \/ \ \
> \ \
> \______\
So where did the bass player stand?
> And anyway, they played their peppy 80's synth-rock music and
> everybody was happy and singing along, and there was a door prize
> given away
That's actually really cool. More concerts should have door prizes.
> (A shiny red Fender Stratocaster, won by an old private
> school classmate of mine who was later arrested for selling oregano
> and claiming it was pot. IANMTU).
What were the charges? Possession of a cooking herb, that doesn't even
really resemble a controlled substance very much, with the intent to
sell?
> At the end of the concert, there
> was the regular encore, followed by AN ALTAR CALL! Yes, just like in
> church, there was an altar call! I'll bet Rush doesn't have altar
> calls at their shows!
Although I'd love to see the confusion break out among the
40-something stoners when Geddy Lee asks everyone to come forward and
accept Jesus.
Kenton 'The Great Requiem' Cernea
wrote:
>In article <rpi6ftoqp9us9rb1t...@4ax.com>,
>req...@nemonet.com says...
>> ______
>> \ \ |-------|(Except, it leaned over a bit more in
>> \ \ |DRUMMER| reality.)
>> \ \ |--HERE-|
>> ____ \_____|-------|
>> \ o o \
>> \ /|\ /|\ \
>> \/_\ /_\__\<---KEYBOARDIST
>> ^ \ *\<----Perth
>> | \ \
>> GUITARIST\ o \
>> ----> \ /|\ \
>> SINGER \/ \ \
>> \ \
>> \______\
>
>So where did the bass player stand?
Oops! I forgot about that. Let me see... it was 10 years ago... ah,
here we go.
_______
\ \ |-------|(Except, it leaned over a bit more in
\ \ |DRUMMER| reality.)
\ \ |--HERE-|
___\ \____|-------|
\ o o \
\ /|\ o /|\ \
\/_\ /|\ /_\__\<---KEYBOARDIST
^ \ / \*\<----Perth
| \ ^--------- BASSMASTER
GUITARIST\ o \
----> \ /|\ \
SINGER \/ \ \
\ \
\______\
He was pretty close to Perth.
>> (A shiny red Fender Stratocaster, won by an old private
>> school classmate of mine who was later arrested for selling oregano
>> and claiming it was pot. IANMTU).
>
>What were the charges? Possession of a cooking herb, that doesn't even
>really resemble a controlled substance very much, with the intent to
>sell?
Well, since he was selling it AS a drug, it was still a drug-related
charge, although it wasn't as severe. Plus, he was still a juvenile,
so it was just a trip to day care^W^Wthe highly effective and
efficient Juvenile Justice Center that the fine State of Missouri
utilizes for misguided youth.
>> At the end of the concert, there
>> was the regular encore, followed by AN ALTAR CALL! Yes, just like in
>> church, there was an altar call! I'll bet Rush doesn't have altar
>> calls at their shows!
>
>Although I'd love to see the confusion break out among the
>40-something stoners when Geddy Lee asks everyone to come forward and
>accept Jesus.
Somehow, I got a 40-foot Jesus out of that last paragraph. (And so
did the stoners, undoubtedly)
P.S.: I'm feeling a little better now, thanks.
Daniel Buettner
> In article <r8v3ftcq5nhcrnmcs...@4ax.com>,
> req...@nemonet.com says...
>> On Fri, 4 May 2001 00:23:30 GMT, ki...@world.std.com (James "Kibo"
>> Parry) wrote:
>>
>> >Did anyone ever find a use for any of the things they brought home from shop?
>>
>> Yes! I made a cutting board in 1991. My parents still use it.
>
> I made a set of salt & pepper shakers.
Yeah, but if those were the same salt & pepper shakers that
I made, neither of us actually "made" them. There was some
sort of assembly line going on. I had the important duty of
running the band saw, which was very tricky, what with the
cutting guide and all. Especially since I was only putting
"decorative" grooves on the sides of the rectangular prisms.
Mostly, I was very confused about the safety instructions
which said that no part of your body should be in front of
the band saw at any time, in case the blade breaks and comes
shooting out. How exactly can a band saw be used without
the operator standing in front of it?
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Joe Manfre
>req...@nemonet.com says...
>> James "Kibo" Parry (ki...@world.std.com) wrote:
>>
>> >Did anyone ever find a use for any of the things they brought home
>> >from shop?
>>
>> Yes! I made a cutting board in 1991. My parents still use it.
>
>I made a set of salt & pepper shakers.
In junior high school shop class we made electric lamps out of PVC
pipe and little blocks of wood, and the lamp I made was used in one of
the rooms of my mom's house for years and years until it got broken
somehow. One of my friends still uses his shop-class lamp, I think.
The lamps were like this:
______
/ \
| |
| | <-----LIGHT BULB (not included)
\ /
| |
==== <---THE METAL PART WHERE YOU SCREW IN
==== THE LIGHT BULB (provided by shop teacher)
||
/""""\
|______| <-----PVC PIPE CAP (white)
| |
| |
| | <----A FEW INCHES OF PVC PIPE (white)
| |
_|______|_
/__________\ <---BLOCK OF WOOD (carved to look pretty)
(____________)
The most complicated part was drilling the little sideways hole in the
block of wood so you could thread the cord (not pictured) through it.
Then you could go to Kmart or whatever and buy a cheap little
lampshade that clips right onto the bulb, and voila, you got yourself
a lamp!
We also made these silly little toy basketball game thingies.
Everybody loved those.
JM
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Luke Breinig
> Yeah, but if those were the same salt & pepper shakers that
> I made, neither of us actually "made" them. There was some
> sort of assembly line going on.
Yes, I believe that was the case. I think I got to run the drill press.
> Mostly, I was very confused about the safety instructions
> which said that no part of your body should be in front of
> the band saw at any time, in case the blade breaks and comes
> shooting out. How exactly can a band saw be used without
> the operator standing in front of it?
Band saws are meant to be operated only by robots.
Zixia
<MPG.15608ae35...@news.inetnebr.com>:
>> (A shiny red Fender Stratocaster, won by an old private
>> school classmate of mine who was later arrested for selling
>> oregano and claiming it was pot. IANMTU).
>
>What were the charges? Possession of a cooking herb, that doesn't
>even really resemble a controlled substance very much, with the
>intent to sell?
It's too orangey for crows! It's just for me and my dog!
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Glenn Knickerbocker
> which said that no part of your body should be in front of
> the band saw at any time, in case the blade breaks and comes
> shooting out. How exactly can a band saw be used without
I never took wood shop but had cousins who kept horses. I was never
kicked but I still swing out about ten feet when I have to go around the
the back end of any horse today. If I had seen those signs on band
saws, I'd be afraid even to be in the same room with one, in case the
blade came shooting out and chased me around the room like in Tom &
Jerry cartoons. In fact, I'm scaring myself right now.
ŹR
David DeLaney
>>Although I'd love to see the confusion break out among the
>>40-something stoners when Geddy Lee asks everyone to come forward and
>>accept Jesus.
>
>Somehow, I got a 40-foot Jesus out of that last paragraph. (And so
>did the stoners, undoubtedly)
I DON' CARE IF IT RAINS OR SNEEZES
LONG AS I'S GOT MY 40-FOOT JESUS
STA-PLED TO THE DASH-BOARD OF MY CAAAAAAAH!
>P.S.: I'm feeling a little better now, thanks.
Good luck on your job-or-not, if you want it!
Dave
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Ben Wolfson
<d...@gatekeeper.vic.com> wrote:
> I DON' CARE IF IT RAINS OR SNEEZES
> LONG AS I'S GOT MY 40-FOOT JESUS
^^^^^^^
YM "Chocolate"
> STA-PLED TO THE DASH-BOARD OF MY CAAAAAAAH!
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"Et tu, Brute?" sedulous.
-- barry in indy, in apihna
Plorkwort
>In article <slrn9fems...@gatekeeper.vic.com>, "David DeLaney"
><d...@gatekeeper.vic.com> wrote:
>> I DON' CARE IF IT RAINS OR SNEEZES
>> LONG AS I'S GOT MY 40-FOOT JESUS
> ^^^^^^^
>YM "Chocolate"
>
>> STA-PLED TO THE DASH-BOARD OF MY CAAAAAAAH!
"I don't care if my wheels are comin' off
Long as I got my Plastic Zamenhof
Sittin' on the dashboard of my ca-a-ar!
He comes in colors green and pleasant,
Shines in the dark, he's incandescent..."
Plorkwort
--
Thomasina: It is plain that there are some things a girl is allowed to
understand, and these include the whole of algebra, but there are others, such
as embracing a side of beef, that must be kept from her until she is old enough
to have a carcass of her own. --Tom Stoppard, _Arcadia_
Ben Wolfson
<aswe...@midway.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> The moving finger of Ben Wolfson wrote <wol...@uchicago.edu and then
> moved on:
>>In article <slrn9fems...@gatekeeper.vic.com>, "David DeLaney"
>><d...@gatekeeper.vic.com> wrote:
>>> I DON' CARE IF IT RAINS OR SNEEZES
>>> LONG AS I'S GOT MY 40-FOOT JESUS
>> ^^^^^^^
>>YM "Chocolate"
>>
>>> STA-PLED TO THE DASH-BOARD OF MY CAAAAAAAH!
>
>
> "I don't care if my wheels are comin' off
> Long as I got my Plastic Zamenhof
> Sittin' on the dashboard of my ca-a-ar!
> He comes in colors green and
> pleasant, Shines in the dark, he's incandescent..."
Man, you're a terrible speller. It goes:
Well it's got to be a chocolate Jesus
Make me feel good inside
Got to be a chocolate Jesus
Keep me satisfied
Paradigm Fert
No, you've got it all wrong! It's
(Velvet Elvis) He's so fuzzy
(Velvet Elvis) He's so great
(Velvet Elvis) Never ages
(Velvet Elvis) Never puts on weight
(Velvet Elvis) Look at those rhinestones
(Velvet Elvis) He's just so fine
(Velvet Elvis) You can look but don't touch now
(Velvet Elvis) 'Cause he's mine all mine
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members.nbci.com/paradigmlost/entry.html
Kev In, Boyz Out
"Paradigm Fert" <kosh...@hotmail.com> wrote:
C'mon, people, wake up and smell the commuter mug of starbucks...
Fuzzy dice, fuzzy dice,
It's doofus time in the ciiiteeeee...
Fuzzy dice, fuzzy dice,
Soon Calvin will peeee on the siiiiiide.
--
-keV
Glenn Knickerbocker
> (Velvet Elvis) He's just so fine
So paint me on velvet
And do not disguise
The bright silver teardrops
That you've brought to my eyes
Hang me out by the roadside
For the whole world to see
Jesus and Elvis
The Confederate flag
And Willie and me
robert lindsay
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>He was pretty close to Perth.
but not, thankfully to greenbelt.
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