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ThurgreedMarshall 10-25-2013 01:30 PM
Re: school tours
 
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 483636)
You're home schooling?
No. But if I were, I'd teach her what "supplement" means.

TM

sebastian_dangerfield 10-25-2013 01:37 PM
Re: school tours
 
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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 483641)
No. But if I were, I'd teach her what "supplement" means.

TM
Use "vitamin." Kids understand that better.

Hank Chinaski 10-25-2013 01:38 PM
Re: Cried all night til there was nothing more.
 
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Originally Posted by Not Bob (Post 483620)
FWIW, I was mocking Sebby,
the NotBob I believe in wouldn't mock anyone

sebastian_dangerfield 10-25-2013 01:48 PM
Re: school tours
 
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Thanks! I've described you to people, roughly, never.
Too true. Her complexity requires considerable detail.

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Tell us about how dreamy your husband is again!
I've met the man.* Clooney's head on Mark Wahlberg's physique. You forget the goiter's even there.

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This one doesn't make sense to me, but if it makes you feel like you're scoring, I don't want to take that away from you.
Oddly, I noticed Hank is putting this as a win in his column (No. 393464). Seems undeserved, but he likes to keep score, and why take that away from him?

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* I have not. He went to Taft while I was at Groton.

Icky Thump 10-25-2013 02:01 PM
Re: Cried all night til there was nothing more.
 
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Originally Posted by Not Bob (Post 483620)
FWIW, I was mocking Sebby, not you.

And, not that you care, but the first FB-er I met in real life went to a boarding school and so based on that, I don't think that boarding schools are filled with kids whose parents are pretentious twits and who themselves are future pretentious twits. (This person is the only one I know semi well who went to a boarding school; I have acquaintances and former co-workers who went, but can't really say I know them enough to opine on whether their issues - we all have some - are related to their education.)
FWIW I have put quite a few kids through boarding school. Only problem is they were my bosses' kids.

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy 10-25-2013 02:03 PM
Re: school tours
 
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Originally Posted by Icky Thump (Post 483619)
Actually, my experience has been the people who I have met who send their kids to Exeter and Choate NEVER say so unless you ask.
What about the people who actually go there, like Hank. Seems he's CONSTANTLY letting it drop.

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy 10-25-2013 02:08 PM
Re: school tours
 
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 483630)
Inartful on my part. I agreed with his to reasons, but there are others. One of which I'd earlier noted: Boarding schools are feeders for excellent universities.
Work on it. There are many more reasons. Court orders, for example.

Replaced_Texan 10-25-2013 02:41 PM
Re: school tours
 
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Originally Posted by dtb (Post 483614)
Seriously? You can't think of any reason other than "parental bragging" and "networking" that you'd send a child to a boarding school? That's rather sad. I would have loved going to boarding school, and not for either of the above reasons. Yes, I'm a nerd, but the world needs nerds, too.

The world's quota of posers who look down their noses at others, however, seems to be full.
FWIW, I got a glare when I asked my husband if it was like Hogwarts.

ETA, as the statute of limitations has likely run, I can report that he did admit to blowing up a bridge his senior year. So maybe it was a little like Hogwarts.

Hank Chinaski 10-25-2013 03:04 PM
Re: school tours
 
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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 483646)
What about the people who actually go there, like Hank. Seems he's CONSTANTLY letting it drop.
Going to Choate really helped me on that "know real life" quiz T posted. I was able to say truthfully that very few people living around me where I grew up had a college degree.

Did you just call me Coltrane? 10-25-2013 03:18 PM
Re: school tours
 
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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan (Post 483648)
FWIW, I got a glare when I asked my husband if it was like Hogwarts.

ETA, as the statute of limitations has likely run, I can report that he did admit to blowing up a bridge his senior year. So maybe it was a little like Hogwarts.
Apropos of Potter, it was odd seeing Tonks naked in Game of Thrones.

ThurgreedMarshall 10-25-2013 03:42 PM
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Replaced_Texan 10-25-2013 03:51 PM
Re: school tours
 
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Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane? (Post 483650)
Apropos of Potter, it was odd seeing Tonks naked in Game of Thrones.
Graham opened for her band, Molotov Jukebox, at the Boomtown Fair in the UK this summer. She plays the accordion and sings in the band that describes themselves as Gyp-Step. Graham doesn't think that's a particularly accurate description, though he thinks they're fun. At any rate when he was chatting with her (apparently about my love for the accordion), he said that all he could think was "I've seen all of you." That was her last show with the band before she flew off to Spain to film something with Pedro Almodovar and then more Game of Thrones. Aside from the awkwardness of envisioning her fucking Theon Greyjoy during the whole conversation, he said she was a pretty cool person.

dtb 10-25-2013 06:55 PM
Re: Cried all night til there was nothing more.
 
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Originally Posted by Not Bob (Post 483620)
FWIW, I was mocking Sebby, not you.

And, not that you care, but the first FB-er I met in real life went to a boarding school and so based on that, I don't think that boarding schools are filled with kids whose parents are pretentious twits and who themselves are future pretentious twits. (This person is the only one I know semi well who went to a boarding school; I have acquaintances and former co-workers who went, but can't really say I know them enough to opine on whether their issues - we all have some - are related to their education.)
I know! I know! I was*sincere in my thanks, and in my appreciation for your talent of getting to the point in one pithy sentence.

Hank Chinaski 10-25-2013 11:04 PM
Re: Towards A Virtual Williamsburg!
 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/1...usaolp00000009

sometimes I worry about things that seem normal to me being sold as odd. beer could explode in a fire, that can't be safe.

Adder 10-26-2013 12:07 AM
Re: So
 
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Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) (Post 483594)
+1. And figure out now how to introduce her should she see the signs for "Adder Wedding" and come find you or run into you.
Shouldn't be so hard, although she's apparently now a personal trainer and sort of body builder. So, you know.

Not really an issue as I'm nearly certain the interest was never mutual.


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