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OrtonToOlsen said:
JFC

7:45 this morning, 15 minutes before I'm actually 'on the clock', this kid knocks on my classroom door.  We'll call him "Matt" because Matts typically suck at life and that's actually his name.

Matt is a bit freaked out because his mom checked the online grade book and it shows him with an F.  There was a packet of work due on yesterday but Matt was absent.  I mistakenly marked his grade as "missing/zero" instead of "absent/exempt" (for the time being).  I told Matt that I would fix it and that when he turned the packet in later on in the day he would not lose any points for it being late since he was absent.

I even emailed his mom to let her know that he did not have an F and explained that it was my mistake.

So Matt comes in just now and I ask him for his packet.  He tells me that he doesn't have all of the work done and can't turn it in today.   This is the look I gave him.

I made sure I emailed him mom again and dropped dime on him.  D1ck.
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#### you.

Signed, 

Matt

 
RC94 said:
Talking about dreams, does anyone have that dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you? 
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Why am I the only one who has that dream?

 
You people are effing weird. I'm always just late for class, don't knew where it is,  and don't have my homework.

And then naked women throw tiny pickles at me.

 
My little sister called last night.  She was broke. I sent her some money from my parent's account.  Don't  know, didn't ask.  Dad just texted "I couldn't have a better son or friend than you".  Then followed up with "drinking Jameson". 

fin

 
krista4 said:
One of my friends just won the world championship in backgammon.

In other news, there is a world championship in backgammon.
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My backgammon story. My step father (dad) loved the game, taught me how to play when I was about 6 or 7 and we played a bunch. It got to the point that I was pretty good and I'd beat him more often than not when playing head to head

My dad was also a limousine guy. Somewhat of a big player, so his cars got a lot of the bigger names / celebrities in town that happened to use the dispatch service he had his cars with.

Back in the late 1970s, with SNL and the Not Ready For Primetime Players at peak popularity, Gilda Radner did a comedy tour which a documentary of the tour was later released called 'Gilda Live'. When that tour came through Chicago, he was Gilda's personal driver the entire time.

For the last night of the stay at Arie Crown Theater, Gilda gave my dad backstage passes for me and my mom so we went. We get to the theater about 3 hours before the show to pick up my dad to go get a pre-show dinner. While backstage, there was a table with a couple people around it and they were playing backgammon. My 9 year old self wandered over to watch and one of the guys playing asked me if I played. My dad overhears this and in typical dad fashion, answers for my be saying something to the effect of  'Yes he does, and he'll beat any of you'.

It got some chuckles to which my dad pulls out his cash and puts a $20 on the table and says 'He's got winner' Someone took him up on the offer, so I sat down and played, won, got high fives from adults, and went on my way.

Fast forward about 5 years later, me and my dad are watching Late Night with David Letterman. Camera pans over to Paul Shaffer and my dad says 'Remember when you beat that guy playing backgammon backstage at Gilda Radner?' and points to the screen. 'That's him'

 
Epic Problem said:
My backgammon story. My step father (dad) loved the game, taught me how to play when I was about 6 or 7 and we played a bunch. It got to the point that I was pretty good and I'd beat him more often than not when playing head to head

My dad was also a limousine guy. Somewhat of a big player, so his cars got a lot of the bigger names / celebrities in town that happened to use the dispatch service he had his cars with.

Back in the late 1970s, with SNL and the Not Ready For Primetime Players at peak popularity, Gilda Radner did a comedy tour which a documentary of the tour was later released called 'Gilda Live'. When that tour came through Chicago, he was Gilda's personal driver the entire time.

For the last night of the stay at Arie Crown Theater, Gilda gave my dad backstage passes for me and my mom so we went. We get to the theater about 3 hours before the show to pick up my dad to go get a pre-show dinner. While backstage, there was a table with a couple people around it and they were playing backgammon. My 9 year old self wandered over to watch and one of the guys playing asked me if I played. My dad overhears this and in typical dad fashion, answers for my be saying something to the effect of  'Yes he does, and he'll beat any of you'.

It got some chuckles to which my dad pulls out his cash and puts a $20 on the table and says 'He's got winner' Someone took him up on the offer, so I sat down and played, won, got high fives from adults, and went on my way.

Fast forward about 5 years later, me and my dad are watching Late Night with David Letterman. Camera pans over to Paul Shaffer and my dad says 'Remember when you beat that guy playing backgammon backstage at Gilda Radner?' and points to the screen. 'That's him'
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That's awesome.

 
Epic Problem said:
My backgammon story. My step father (dad) loved the game, taught me how to play when I was about 6 or 7 and we played a bunch. It got to the point that I was pretty good and I'd beat him more often than not when playing head to head

My dad was also a limousine guy. Somewhat of a big player, so his cars got a lot of the bigger names / celebrities in town that happened to use the dispatch service he had his cars with.

Back in the late 1970s, with SNL and the Not Ready For Primetime Players at peak popularity, Gilda Radner did a comedy tour which a documentary of the tour was later released called 'Gilda Live'. When that tour came through Chicago, he was Gilda's personal driver the entire time.

For the last night of the stay at Arie Crown Theater, Gilda gave my dad backstage passes for me and my mom so we went. We get to the theater about 3 hours before the show to pick up my dad to go get a pre-show dinner. While backstage, there was a table with a couple people around it and they were playing backgammon. My 9 year old self wandered over to watch and one of the guys playing asked me if I played. My dad overhears this and in typical dad fashion, answers for my be saying something to the effect of  'Yes he does, and he'll beat any of you'.

It got some chuckles to which my dad pulls out his cash and puts a $20 on the table and says 'He's got winner' Someone took him up on the offer, so I sat down and played, won, got high fives from adults, and went on my way.

Fast forward about 5 years later, me and my dad are watching Late Night with David Letterman. Camera pans over to Paul Shaffer and my dad says 'Remember when you beat that guy playing backgammon backstage at Gilda Radner?' and points to the screen. 'That's him'
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Holy crap.  Awesome.

I probably watched "Gilda Live" on HBO about 30 times.  Totally remember Shaffer "playing" one of the band members for the Candy Slice skit.  

 
OrtonToOlsen said:
Holy crap.  Awesome.

I probably watched "Gilda Live" on HBO about 30 times.  Totally remember Shaffer "playing" one of the band members for the Candy Slice skit.  
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Can't even estimate how many times I've watched that over the years, but its probably been 20 since I've seen it. Let's Talk Dirty To The Animals still gets the kid in me rolling.

 
Epic Problem said:
My backgammon story. My step father (dad) loved the game, taught me how to play when I was about 6 or 7 and we played a bunch. It got to the point that I was pretty good and I'd beat him more often than not when playing head to head

My dad was also a limousine guy. Somewhat of a big player, so his cars got a lot of the bigger names / celebrities in town that happened to use the dispatch service he had his cars with.

Back in the late 1970s, with SNL and the Not Ready For Primetime Players at peak popularity, Gilda Radner did a comedy tour which a documentary of the tour was later released called 'Gilda Live'. When that tour came through Chicago, he was Gilda's personal driver the entire time.

For the last night of the stay at Arie Crown Theater, Gilda gave my dad backstage passes for me and my mom so we went. We get to the theater about 3 hours before the show to pick up my dad to go get a pre-show dinner. While backstage, there was a table with a couple people around it and they were playing backgammon. My 9 year old self wandered over to watch and one of the guys playing asked me if I played. My dad overhears this and in typical dad fashion, answers for my be saying something to the effect of  'Yes he does, and he'll beat any of you'.

It got some chuckles to which my dad pulls out his cash and puts a $20 on the table and says 'He's got winner' Someone took him up on the offer, so I sat down and played, won, got high fives from adults, and went on my way.

Fast forward about 5 years later, me and my dad are watching Late Night with David Letterman. Camera pans over to Paul Shaffer and my dad says 'Remember when you beat that guy playing backgammon backstage at Gilda Radner?' and points to the screen. 'That's him'
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RULES

 
Epic Problem said:
Can't even estimate how many times I've watched that over the years, but its probably been 20 since I've seen it. Let's Talk Dirty To The Animals still gets the kid in me rolling.
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:lmao:

#### you, Mr. Bunny.  Up yours, Mr. Fox.  Tell a chicken 'suck my ####' and give him chicken pox.

 
RedmondLonghorn said:
Back from Mexico. Eight pounds heavier and a bit poorer. 

But my personal stress level has dropped from DEFCON 2 to about DEFCON 3 or 4.
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next time you're in the harbor stop by for a cocktail.  my only furniture is two barstools, but the bar is stocked so I really don't need anything else.

 
St. Louis Bob said:
My little sister called last night.  She was broke. I sent her some money from my parent's account.  Don't  know, didn't ask.  Dad just texted "I couldn't have a better son or friend than you".  Then followed up with "drinking Jameson". 

fin
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My mother in law started a Gofundme for herself last week because the Unabomber-style cabin she was living in (somewhere in NorCal) almost burned down.  She needs the funds for a new generator.  I'm 99% sure MIL caused the fire herself out of pure negligence.  

My wife asked MIL why her brother (AKA America's Fattest Hippie)  hasn't helped since he lives there too.  MIL replied with "not sure where he is...it's a long story".  Took my wife 30 minutes of searching court records to find her brother is in jail on distribution charges.  

I was ticked when I found out my wife and my own mother contributed to MIL's Gofundme.  Every single problem in her life is self-inflicted.  We've helped her countless times before and she's literally never said "thank you".  Not even once.  

 
St. Louis Bob said:
My little sister called last night.  She was broke. I sent her some money from my parent's account.  Don't  know, didn't ask.  Dad just texted "I couldn't have a better son or friend than you".  Then followed up with "drinking Jameson". 

fin
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:heart:  

Epic Problem said:
My backgammon story. My step father (dad) loved the game, taught me how to play when I was about 6 or 7 and we played a bunch. It got to the point that I was pretty good and I'd beat him more often than not when playing head to head

My dad was also a limousine guy. Somewhat of a big player, so his cars got a lot of the bigger names / celebrities in town that happened to use the dispatch service he had his cars with.

Back in the late 1970s, with SNL and the Not Ready For Primetime Players at peak popularity, Gilda Radner did a comedy tour which a documentary of the tour was later released called 'Gilda Live'. When that tour came through Chicago, he was Gilda's personal driver the entire time.

For the last night of the stay at Arie Crown Theater, Gilda gave my dad backstage passes for me and my mom so we went. We get to the theater about 3 hours before the show to pick up my dad to go get a pre-show dinner. While backstage, there was a table with a couple people around it and they were playing backgammon. My 9 year old self wandered over to watch and one of the guys playing asked me if I played. My dad overhears this and in typical dad fashion, answers for my be saying something to the effect of  'Yes he does, and he'll beat any of you'.

It got some chuckles to which my dad pulls out his cash and puts a $20 on the table and says 'He's got winner' Someone took him up on the offer, so I sat down and played, won, got high fives from adults, and went on my way.

Fast forward about 5 years later, me and my dad are watching Late Night with David Letterman. Camera pans over to Paul Shaffer and my dad says 'Remember when you beat that guy playing backgammon backstage at Gilda Radner?' and points to the screen. 'That's him'
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on my street when I was 10ish, I once gave robin williams directions as he was driving by. and then beat him at backgammon. maybe. 

your story is amazing. did you get contact with any of your dad's other famous clients? backgammon fleecing or no.

RedmondLonghorn said:
Back from Mexico. Eight pounds heavier and a bit poorer. 

But my personal stress level has dropped from DEFCON 2 to about DEFCON 3 or 4.
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glad to hear the trip went well and took your mind off. riviera maya? do you get out of the resort?... curious to hear about the trip.

I shared this info in a couple of my other regular threads already- so forgive the repost... 

10yo floppinho plays drums and sings in the local NYC chapter of school of rock (not the musical- the school)... I'm sure I've posted videos. doing zeppelin this term. the director of the program is a indie-rock hipster guy from brooklyn who plays on the side with a handful of well known bands in the indie/brooklyn scene.

one of the bands asked him to recommend a few kids to sing backing vocals on a new song they're recording... and he and they picked boy wonder! I'm taking him this weekend to record with Parquet Courts (also one of my favorite bands of the last 5 years, so I might groupie the #### out and embarrass myself).

 
cosjobs said:
Is that a python in your pants or are you just excited to get arrested?

A man detained by police during a drunken argument in Germany may have violated animal welfare laws after being found to be carrying a baby python in his pants.

Police in Darmstadt, in the west of the country, said he was held on Tuesday night after a loud row with another man disturbed residents. They said he was searched and officers noticed “a significant bulge in his trousers”.

The man, 19, told officers he had a snake in his pants and pulled out a 14-inch (36cm) royal python.

He was taken to a police cell to sober up and the snake was put in a box. Speaking on Wednesday, police said they were looking for the reptile’s owner and examining whether “the non-species-appropriate transport” contravened animal protection regulations.
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he should have resisted arrest by saying "my python dont want none unless you got guns, Hun"

 
El Floppo said:
:heart:  

on my street when I was 10ish, I once gave robin williams directions as he was driving by. and then beat him at backgammon. maybe. 

your story is amazing. did you get contact with any of your dad's other famous clients? backgammon fleecing or no.
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Not really. An occasional autograph would show up here and there, but never anything cool like having dinner with Samuel L Jackson. Autograph highlight would be a Mickey Mantle baseball.

 
We have a person with one of our IT contractors with "bbb" in her last name: Subbburamyan.  Not sure how to pronounce it without spitting.

 
El Floppo said:
glad to hear the trip went well and took your mind off. riviera maya? do you get out of the resort?... curious to hear about the trip.
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Not Riviera Maya this time. We went to Punta de Mita, which is about 45 minutes north of Puerto Vallarta. Rented a ridiculous condo with another couple on VRBO.

The holiday/winter season doesn't really get ramped up for another week or two, so it was very peaceful and mostly empty.

 
RedmondLonghorn said:
Not Riviera Maya this time. We went to Punta de Mita, which is about 45 minutes north of Puerto Vallarta. Rented a ridiculous condo with another couple on VRBO.

The holiday/winter season doesn't really get ramped up for another week or two, so it was very peaceful and mostly empty.
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just the couples, or families too?

any highlights? 

my friend's folks have an eco resort just south of PV... beautiful area. 

 
Sweet J said:
While I'm here, I will give an update:

I'm still living at home.  It's a little weird, but passable.  Absolutely unsure of what we are doing.  My wife and I have been going to a marriage counselor who specializes in counseling couple's who are separating (weirdly, if it looks like the couple wants to reconcile, she will refer them to a different counselor for the job of making it work).  A strange niche to have, I guess.  Tomorrow I go to see the counselor without the wife.  I'm a little anxious about it.  

Wife and I don't want to kill eachother, so that's nice. 

As for other updates:  A HUGE part of my anxiety is taken up over my daughter (8th grade) trying out for the high school basketball team.  The high school routinely has a girl's varsity program that ranks as one of the top programs for the state (we go to TC Williams High School, of "Remember the Titans" fame).  8th graders in our district can try out for the HS squad.

She is a great athlete, and has great size for her position (she's almost 5'10" and is SOLID; she looks trim but is incredibly strong and must weigh a good 150 or so).

My anxiety stems from the fact, as some of you might know, that she was born without a right hand.  So she has to be good enough with what she has to make the team.  We've done a lot of practice together (when she'll let me join), and she's a pretty good dribbler with her left, and can even dribble a little with her right.  But her real skill now is her low post defense.  She is a monster in the paint.  I am desperately hoping that the coaches value this.

I've basically parented her by just pretending she has two hands, and let her figure out what she can do, and how to adapt.  No special services, or PT or OT visits, no prosthetics or trainers, no special keyboards or velco shoe laces.  Just . . . you can figure it out, you got this.  But I die inside a little every time I see her fail, even though I know that's how she learns to achieve. 

One cool fact -- my daughter told me a couple of weeks ago that the JV assistant coach has MS (I think it's MS), and he told her that he was the first disabled kid in his high school history to letter in a varsity sport (I think cross country).  He seems to have taken an interest in her performance.  Not a homer interest.  And other kids have been incredibly supportive of her.  She is skeptical of all of it.  She doesn't consider herself disabled, and doesn't want any extra help.  She wants to rise or fall on her merits, nothing more.  I couldn't be prouder of her.  But I'm still a ball of anxiety over making the team.

tagging @jhib, who had some similar experiences and has given me support through the years.  How's your daughter doing, buddy?

tl;dr -- my daughter is trying out for sports. :confetti: 
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So sorry to hear about the marital issues.  :( That really bums me out. 

But it's awesome to hear about your daughter again!  That's seriously impressive, and it seems pretty clear she has a great attitude and will be able to handle it whether or not she makes the HS team this year. 

Believe it or not, my daughter is a freshman in college this year.  To fill everybody else in, she was born without her left hand - her "little arm" goes just a little bit past her elbow.  We took a similar tack as Sweet J, letting her figure the physical things out as they came up, other than that one short period sometime before she turned two when we listened to some medical professionals who insisted that the best thing for her was to use a prosthetic forearm/hand.  She had one stationary one and then one partially robotic where she could close the thumb to the fingers by tensing the muscle in her arm.  It didn't last long as she really didn't like how it got in the way and actually slowed her down more than anything else.  But at least we figured that out early on and never gave that kind of thing another thought.  She was awesome at figuring out pretty much everything that we would earlier worry about - I think she can still tie her shoes faster than her brother can.

She played basketball and soccer in elementary school, but we didn't go through the high school sports thing because by that time, she decided that she took after her mother in being "allergic" to that kind of physical exertion.   The last physical hurdle was learning to drive and getting her license, but that turned out to be like everything else.  She passed on her first try (while a few of her friends needed multiple attempts) and is a great driver.  The state lets her have one of these wheel spinners on her steering wheel, but she doesn't even use that too often while driving.  I, on the other hand, actually like using the thing when I drive her car.

It's funny how the parental anxiety has shifted over the years from the physical to other aspects like relationships.  Our daughter never really dated in high school, although she did have some pretty good friends who were boys, just no boyfriends. She probably could have, as one of her closest friends was interested in going out with her, but she always thought of him as more of a brother (she did end up going to prom with him, though, which was nice).  I never really dated until college, either, so I didn't think it was that big of a deal.  But my wife always had boyfriends in high school, so it was definitely a source of anxiety for her, wondering if boys were discounting her as girlfriend material because of her arm.  

Anyway, a little over two months into college and we've already heard about going out with guys, two boys fighting over her at the moment, blah blah blah.  My wife is thrilled.  I have mixed feelings. 

tl;dr -- my daughter is kissing guys now.  That's all, right? Please tell me that's all.

 
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El Floppo said:
just the couples, or families too?

any highlights? 

my friend's folks have an eco resort just south of PV... beautiful area. 
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Just couples. It was a trip for my best friend's 50th birthday. 

A third couple was going to go too, but they backed out after we rented the place. A 3,500 sq foot condo that can sleep 8-10 was a little much for the four of us, but it still rated as somewhat affordable divided two ways. Divided three ways it would have been an unreal deal.

 
OrtonToOlsen said:
My mother in law started a Gofundme for herself last week because the Unabomber-style cabin she was living in (somewhere in NorCal) almost burned down.  She needs the funds for a new generator.  I'm 99% sure MIL caused the fire herself out of pure negligence.  

My wife asked MIL why her brother (AKA America's Fattest Hippie)  hasn't helped since he lives there too.  MIL replied with "not sure where he is...it's a long story".  Took my wife 30 minutes of searching court records to find her brother is in jail on distribution charges.  

I was ticked when I found out my wife and my own mother contributed to MIL's Gofundme.  Every single problem in her life is self-inflicted.  We've helped her countless times before and she's literally never said "thank you".  Not even once.  
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Yeah, sigh.

 
I'm going to duck in here for a minute to get away from all the craziness out there, if you nice folks will have me of course. 

 
We'll just file this under W, for Women are Neat. 

Mrs. S: "Why do you ALWAYS have to be right when we argue?"

"Because I am always right when we argue."

"How can you say that?"

"Because if I don't know I'm right, I don't bother to argue about it."

"You're an idiot."

"Compelling argument.  And one I wouldn't argue with."

:wall:

 
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