GM's thread about nothing (19 Viewers)

[St. Louis Bob]

I want to be embalmed with lobster bisque.

 

[St. Louis Bob]

Today is my 26th wedding anniversary.

Wife's at a conference downtown at the Four Seasons.

Congrats?

this makes me want to punch several people

link

 

[YSR]

Tanner> I DVR Jeopardy every night because I'm a nerd who is trying to be a bigger nerd. This morning, Mr. YSR tried to tell me that the players are given the answers ahead of time. Can you refute, cuz I was all "OH NO YOU DIIN'T SAY THAT, ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS WAS ON THERE"

 

[St. Louis Bob]

Tanner> I DVR Jeopardy every night because I'm a nerd who is trying to be a bigger nerd. This morning, Mr. YSR tried to tell me that the players are given the answers ahead of time. Can you refute, cuz I was all "OH NO YOU DIIN'T SAY THAT, ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS WAS ON THERE"

He's thinking of Wheel of Fortune.

 

[guru_007]

Let's see...

Cosjobs>congrats. 26 years is quite an accomplishment.

YSR pretended to be a male? interesting

I thought I had more, but it's been a long day at the office.

Hope everyone has a nice afternoon/evening. love, g7

 

[Tiger Fan]

The joys of teaching 8th graders...

Girl student: I like the way you teach.

Me: Wow, thank you. It helps to have great students like you, Britney.

2 minutes later...totally out of the blue.

Boy student: Mr. Lllama?

Me: Yes?

Boy student: What's the biggest mosh pit you've ever been in?

Me:

Your students know what your current alias is too? That's impressive.

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

Tanner> I DVR Jeopardy every night because I'm a nerd who is trying to be a bigger nerd. This morning, Mr. YSR tried to tell me that the players are given the answers ahead of time. Can you refute, cuz I was all "OH NO YOU DIIN'T SAY THAT, ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS WAS ON THERE"

this doesn't even make any sense. Why would they give the answers out ahead of time? There are always questions that nobody answers correctly.

 

[Reg Lllama of Brixton]

Tanner> I DVR Jeopardy every night because I'm a nerd who is trying to be a bigger nerd. This morning, Mr. YSR tried to tell me that the players are given the answers ahead of time. Can you refute, cuz I was all "OH NO YOU DIIN'T SAY THAT, ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS WAS ON THERE"

Actually after I was on that was one of the more common questions I was asked by people I knew (the #1 question was 'what kind of taxes do they take out of that'). "So they tell you what they're going to ask you about before you go on, right?"You can tell Romo that contestants are NOT given any information about the questions and/or answers ahead of time. They are actually very, very strict about that. The people that write the questions are even semi-sequestered from the rest of the staff especially anyone that works with or has contact with the contestants...like the stage crew and the contestant coordinators.They are also super paranoid about contestants having contact with anyone not attached to the show. Two examples: The contestant coordinators were escorting us back from lunch (I think this was on the day I was an alternate). One of the contestants sees a girl he knows about to walk into some studio where they were taping a crowd scene for a movie. The girl comes running over to say hi/hug the guy. You would have thought someone was running up to the President with a gun in their hand. Two of the coordinators jump in between the two of them and say "STOP!". The girl had no idea why she couldn't hug her friend. Another contestant was just finishing medical school and was waiting to find out where she was going to do her residency or whatever. She had arranged for someone from her med school to call her. When the call came in one of the contestant coordinators had to listen in on the call just to make sure she wasn't being slipped an answer(s).IIRC there is something like a $10,000 fine for tampering or fixing a game show. We can thank Charles Van Doren and Herb Stemple et al for all that.

 

[St. Louis Bob]

Let's see...Cosjobs>congrats. 26 years is quite an accomplishment.YSR pretended to be a male? interesting I thought I had more, but it's been a long day at the office.Hope everyone has a nice afternoon/evening. love, g7

Love you too.

 

[General Malaise]

Tanner> I DVR Jeopardy every night because I'm a nerd who is trying to be a bigger nerd. This morning, Mr. YSR tried to tell me that the players are given the answers ahead of time. Can you refute, cuz I was all "OH NO YOU DIIN'T SAY THAT, ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS WAS ON THERE"

Did you catch last night's show? The guy in the middle might have been the worst player I've ever seen since Cliff Clavin. He looked like the pulled him fresh out of the Occupy Wall Street rally in Culver City to play in this contest. Nasty patchy beard, yellow flannel shirt, pony tail. At one point, he was DOMINATING THE DOJO and had a commanding lead on the other two contestants. Then he hit a 'Daily Double' and decided (after agonizing for a few seconds) to wager the arbitrary sum of $13,000....AND MISSED! Dude could have moon-walked away with this one, but thanks for poor money management, he was in 2nd for Final Jeopardy and was the only one of the three to miss the relatively easy question (when I get them, they're easy). And just to be super ironic in a hipster sort of way, he wagered $82 for Final Jeopardy.

 

[General Malaise]

IIRC there is something like a $10,000 fine for tampering or fixing a game show. We can thank Charles Van Doren and Herb Stemple et al for all that.

Top 25 movie for me.

 

[Reg Lllama of Brixton]

The joys of teaching 8th graders...

Girl student: I like the way you teach.

Me: Wow, thank you. It helps to have great students like you, Britney.

2 minutes later...totally out of the blue.

Boy student: Mr. Lllama?

Me: Yes?

Boy student: What's the biggest mosh pit you've ever been in?

Me:

Your students know what your current alias is too? That's impressive.

Nah. They usually call me Bud_Light_Stud69

 

[Reg Lllama of Brixton]

Tanner> I DVR Jeopardy every night because I'm a nerd who is trying to be a bigger nerd. This morning, Mr. YSR tried to tell me that the players are given the answers ahead of time. Can you refute, cuz I was all "OH NO YOU DIIN'T SAY THAT, ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS WAS ON THERE"

Did you catch last night's show? The guy in the middle might have been the worst player I've ever seen since Cliff Clavin. He looked like the pulled him fresh out of the Occupy Wall Street rally in Culver City to play in this contest. Nasty patchy beard, yellow flannel shirt, pony tail. At one point, he was DOMINATING THE DOJO and had a commanding lead on the other two contestants. Then he hit a 'Daily Double' and decided (after agonizing for a few seconds) to wager the arbitrary sum of $13,000....AND MISSED! Dude could have moon-walked away with this one, but thanks for poor money management, he was in 2nd for Final Jeopardy and was the only one of the three to miss the relatively easy question (when I get them, they're easy). And just to be super ironic in a hipster sort of way, he wagered $82 for Final Jeopardy.

Kinda funny that you mention that but the contestant that I talked about in the story above, the one that couldn't get a hug from his female friend, was one of my first real-life encounters with a hipster. Guy was wearing some sort of khaki pants, a plaid shirt, and a brown corduroy jacket from about 1982. Had a beard too. The whole hipster thing hadn't made it up my way yet I guess.ETA: He had that whole "I'm far too cool to be here (or anywhere) attitude as well. I think I remember him getting stomped on the show.

 

[YSR]

Tanner> I DVR Jeopardy every night because I'm a nerd who is trying to be a bigger nerd. This morning, Mr. YSR tried to tell me that the players are given the answers ahead of time. Can you refute, cuz I was all "OH NO YOU DIIN'T SAY THAT, ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS WAS ON THERE"

Did you catch last night's show? The guy in the middle might have been the worst player I've ever seen since Cliff Clavin. He looked like the pulled him fresh out of the Occupy Wall Street rally in Culver City to play in this contest. Nasty patchy beard, yellow flannel shirt, pony tail. At one point, he was DOMINATING THE DOJO and had a commanding lead on the other two contestants. Then he hit a 'Daily Double' and decided (after agonizing for a few seconds) to wager the arbitrary sum of $13,000....AND MISSED! Dude could have moon-walked away with this one, but thanks for poor money management, he was in 2nd for Final Jeopardy and was the only one of the three to miss the relatively easy question (when I get them, they're easy). And just to be super ironic in a hipster sort of way, he wagered $82 for Final Jeopardy.

Watched it with the Mr. this morning. That guy was terrible. He was running up the scoreboard on the hot Indian chick (on whom I''m convinced Romo had a crush), but he blew it on a ridiculous category.

 

[St. Louis Bob]

OK, this is 100% true and it just happened. Swear to gosh.

Girl walks into my classroom at the start of 4th period. She says "Mr. Lllama, guess what my shirt says?" Now she's wearing a zip-up hoody over a t-shirt but it's unzipped enough that I can tell it says "I something"

I ask her "what does it say you love?"

She says "I Japan...I totally didn't know what today is until somebody told me this morning.

I eventually was able to stop laughing and ask her where she got it. Her older brother is stationed in Korea and sent it to her when he was on leave in Japan.

You should have said Do you know what else Japan? The Enola Gay.Then walked away.

After punching her in the face.

 

[General Malaise]

Tanner> I DVR Jeopardy every night because I'm a nerd who is trying to be a bigger nerd. This morning, Mr. YSR tried to tell me that the players are given the answers ahead of time. Can you refute, cuz I was all "OH NO YOU DIIN'T SAY THAT, ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS WAS ON THERE"

Did you catch last night's show? The guy in the middle might have been the worst player I've ever seen since Cliff Clavin. He looked like the pulled him fresh out of the Occupy Wall Street rally in Culver City to play in this contest. Nasty patchy beard, yellow flannel shirt, pony tail. At one point, he was DOMINATING THE DOJO and had a commanding lead on the other two contestants. Then he hit a 'Daily Double' and decided (after agonizing for a few seconds) to wager the arbitrary sum of $13,000....AND MISSED! Dude could have moon-walked away with this one, but thanks for poor money management, he was in 2nd for Final Jeopardy and was the only one of the three to miss the relatively easy question (when I get them, they're easy). And just to be super ironic in a hipster sort of way, he wagered $82 for Final Jeopardy.

Watched it with the Mr. this morning. That guy was terrible. He was running up the scoreboard on the hot Indian chick (on whom I''m convinced Romo had a crush), but he blew it on a ridiculous category.

This guy made Frank McCourt look like Warren Buffet in terms of money management. Starting to understand why his ilk hates the 1%...guy probably spent $250 on that outfit.

 

[General Malaise]

ex-wife just emailed saying our oldest has his 9-year check-up apt at 8am in January. She asked if it was okay if she took him out of school for the whole day for this. I said 'no'. Does this make me the meanest dad in the world? I just don't like the idea of missing a full day of school for a check-up. Horrible message to send, IMO. Plus, the kid has perfect attendance.

That said, I took them out of school in 2010 for a day to make it to my wedding in Michigan, so I'm a giant hypocrite, right?

 

[Homer J Simpson]

OK, this is 100% true and it just happened. Swear to gosh.Girl walks into my classroom at the start of 4th period. She says "Mr. Lllama, guess what my shirt says?" Now she's wearing a zip-up hoody over a t-shirt but it's unzipped enough that I can tell it says "I something"I ask her "what does it say you love?"She says "I Japan...I totally didn't know what today is until somebody told me this morning.I eventually was able to stop laughing and ask her where she got it. Her older brother is stationed in Korea and sent it to her when he was on leave in Japan.

So...was she hot?

 

[Homer J Simpson]

ex-wife just emailed saying our oldest has his 9-year check-up apt at 8am in January. She asked if it was okay if she took him out of school for the whole day for this. I said 'no'. Does this make me the meanest dad in the world? I just don't like the idea of missing a full day of school for a check-up. Horrible message to send, IMO. Plus, the kid has perfect attendance. That said, I took them out of school in 2010 for a day to make it to my wedding in Michigan, so I'm a giant hypocrite, right?

So this is what parents worry about?

 

[Reg Lllama of Brixton]

ex-wife just emailed saying our oldest has his 9-year check-up apt at 8am in January. She asked if it was okay if she took him out of school for the whole day for this. I said 'no'. Does this make me the meanest dad in the world? I just don't like the idea of missing a full day of school for a check-up. Horrible message to send, IMO. Plus, the kid has perfect attendance. That said, I took them out of school in 2010 for a day to make it to my wedding in Michigan, so I'm a giant hypocrite, right?

Why does it have to be a full day?

 

[Reg Lllama of Brixton]

OK, this is 100% true and it just happened. Swear to gosh.Girl walks into my classroom at the start of 4th period. She says "Mr. Lllama, guess what my shirt says?" Now she's wearing a zip-up hoody over a t-shirt but it's unzipped enough that I can tell it says "I something"I ask her "what does it say you love?"She says "I Japan...I totally didn't know what today is until somebody told me this morning.I eventually was able to stop laughing and ask her where she got it. Her older brother is stationed in Korea and sent it to her when he was on leave in Japan.

So...was she hot?

I honestly thought about asking her if I could take a picture of her shirt but she is rather "mature" for her age (settle down). I decided I wanted to keep my job and stay out of jail.

 

[General Malaise]

ex-wife just emailed saying our oldest has his 9-year check-up apt at 8am in January. She asked if it was okay if she took him out of school for the whole day for this. I said 'no'. Does this make me the meanest dad in the world? I just don't like the idea of missing a full day of school for a check-up. Horrible message to send, IMO. Plus, the kid has perfect attendance. That said, I took them out of school in 2010 for a day to make it to my wedding in Michigan, so I'm a giant hypocrite, right?

So this is what parents worry about?

This is like a pimple on a whale's butt on what we have to worry about, but it just happened, so I thought i'd bring it up in my thread about nothing....and everything.

 

[Keys Myaths]

OK, this is 100% true and it just happened. Swear to gosh.Girl walks into my classroom at the start of 4th period. She says "Mr. Lllama, guess what my shirt says?" Now she's wearing a zip-up hoody over a t-shirt but it's unzipped enough that I can tell it says "I something"I ask her "what does it say you love?"She says "I Japan...I totally didn't know what today is until somebody told me this morning.I eventually was able to stop laughing and ask her where she got it. Her older brother is stationed in Korea and sent it to her when he was on leave in Japan.

So...was she hot?

I honestly thought about asking her if I could take a picture of her shirt but she is rather "mature" for her age (settle down). I decided I wanted to keep my job and stay out of jail.

"That's awful. Take that off immediately young lady!"

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

ex-wife just emailed saying our oldest has his 9-year check-up apt at 8am in January. She asked if it was okay if she took him out of school for the whole day for this. I said 'no'. Does this make me the meanest dad in the world? I just don't like the idea of missing a full day of school for a check-up. Horrible message to send, IMO. Plus, the kid has perfect attendance. That said, I took them out of school in 2010 for a day to make it to my wedding in Michigan, so I'm a giant hypocrite, right?

So this is what parents worry about?

CAPTAIN SERIOUS DAD

 

[St. Louis Bob]

ex-wife just emailed saying our oldest has his 9-year check-up apt at 8am in January. She asked if it was okay if she took him out of school for the whole day for this. I said 'no'. Does this make me the meanest dad in the world? I just don't like the idea of missing a full day of school for a check-up. Horrible message to send, IMO. Plus, the kid has perfect attendance. That said, I took them out of school in 2010 for a day to make it to my wedding in Michigan, so I'm a giant hypocrite, right?

Weird, I was thinking about this today. Cal had (several) dentist appointments today and he just happened to be getting out of school early today. I know there is no ####### way my wife planned this and just got lucky on the timing. She takes him out of school all of the time for various reasons it seems and I find that very irritating.

 

[Homer J Simpson]

ex-wife just emailed saying our oldest has his 9-year check-up apt at 8am in January. She asked if it was okay if she took him out of school for the whole day for this. I said 'no'. Does this make me the meanest dad in the world? I just don't like the idea of missing a full day of school for a check-up. Horrible message to send, IMO. Plus, the kid has perfect attendance. That said, I took them out of school in 2010 for a day to make it to my wedding in Michigan, so I'm a giant hypocrite, right?

So this is what parents worry about?

This is like a pimple on a whale's butt on what we have to worry about, but it just happened, so I thought i'd bring it up in my thread about nothing....and everything.

Didn't mean to sound mocking, just seems like you're extrapolating a lot of stuff out of a relatively minor thing.

 

[General Malaise]

ex-wife just emailed saying our oldest has his 9-year check-up apt at 8am in January. She asked if it was okay if she took him out of school for the whole day for this. I said 'no'. Does this make me the meanest dad in the world? I just don't like the idea of missing a full day of school for a check-up. Horrible message to send, IMO. Plus, the kid has perfect attendance. That said, I took them out of school in 2010 for a day to make it to my wedding in Michigan, so I'm a giant hypocrite, right?

Why does it have to be a full day?

It doesn't. I told her to change it to the afternoon and take him out of school a little early for it. But missing all day for an 8am check-up? I just don't like that idea at all.Anyhow, she's resorted to the one word replies of "Fine" and "Okay", so she's pissed off about it and I don't really blame her since I took them out of school for a day to go to Michigan for our wedding in 2010. I'm a bigger hypocrite than Newt Gingrich.

 

[Homer J Simpson]

OK, this is 100% true and it just happened. Swear to gosh.Girl walks into my classroom at the start of 4th period. She says "Mr. Lllama, guess what my shirt says?" Now she's wearing a zip-up hoody over a t-shirt but it's unzipped enough that I can tell it says "I something"I ask her "what does it say you love?"She says "I Japan...I totally didn't know what today is until somebody told me this morning.I eventually was able to stop laughing and ask her where she got it. Her older brother is stationed in Korea and sent it to her when he was on leave in Japan.

So...was she hot?

I honestly thought about asking her if I could take a picture of her shirt but she is rather "mature" for her age (settle down). I decided I wanted to keep my job and stay out of jail.

Between this and the Top Shot revelation, I want to punch you in the neck.

 

[Keys Myaths]

ex-wife just emailed saying our oldest has his 9-year check-up apt at 8am in January. She asked if it was okay if she took him out of school for the whole day for this. I said 'no'. Does this make me the meanest dad in the world? I just don't like the idea of missing a full day of school for a check-up. Horrible message to send, IMO. Plus, the kid has perfect attendance. That said, I took them out of school in 2010 for a day to make it to my wedding in Michigan, so I'm a giant hypocrite, right?

Why does it have to be a full day?

It doesn't. I told her to change it to the afternoon and take him out of school a little early for it. But missing all day for an 8am check-up? I just don't like that idea at all.Anyhow, she's resorted to the one word replies of "Fine" and "Okay", so she's pissed off about it and I don't really blame her since I took them out of school for a day to go to Michigan for our wedding in 2010. I'm a bigger hypocrite than Newt Gingrich.

Seriously? There's a massive difference between their dad's wedding and a 30 minute visit to the doctor.

 

[General Malaise]

ex-wife just emailed saying our oldest has his 9-year check-up apt at 8am in January. She asked if it was okay if she took him out of school for the whole day for this. I said 'no'. Does this make me the meanest dad in the world? I just don't like the idea of missing a full day of school for a check-up. Horrible message to send, IMO. Plus, the kid has perfect attendance. That said, I took them out of school in 2010 for a day to make it to my wedding in Michigan, so I'm a giant hypocrite, right?

So this is what parents worry about?

This is like a pimple on a whale's butt on what we have to worry about, but it just happened, so I thought i'd bring it up in my thread about nothing....and everything.

Didn't mean to sound mocking, just seems like you're extrapolating a lot of stuff out of a relatively minor thing.

No worries, I just thought I'd toss it out there as I am conflicted over it. I think it's a bad president to set, but I'm guilty of taking them out for a day to go to Michigan, so...that's all. Ignore me and let's move on to talk about Jeopardy.

 

[Homer J Simpson]

OK, this is 100% true and it just happened. Swear to gosh.Girl walks into my classroom at the start of 4th period. She says "Mr. Lllama, guess what my shirt says?" Now she's wearing a zip-up hoody over a t-shirt but it's unzipped enough that I can tell it says "I something"I ask her "what does it say you love?"She says "I Japan...I totally didn't know what today is until somebody told me this morning.I eventually was able to stop laughing and ask her where she got it. Her older brother is stationed in Korea and sent it to her when he was on leave in Japan.

So...was she hot?

I honestly thought about asking her if I could take a picture of her shirt but she is rather "mature" for her age (settle down). I decided I wanted to keep my job and stay out of jail.

"That's awful. Take that off immediately young lady!"

And now Keys is firmly entrenched on my Best FBG list.

 

[General Malaise]

ex-wife just emailed saying our oldest has his 9-year check-up apt at 8am in January. She asked if it was okay if she took him out of school for the whole day for this. I said 'no'. Does this make me the meanest dad in the world? I just don't like the idea of missing a full day of school for a check-up. Horrible message to send, IMO. Plus, the kid has perfect attendance. That said, I took them out of school in 2010 for a day to make it to my wedding in Michigan, so I'm a giant hypocrite, right?

Why does it have to be a full day?

It doesn't. I told her to change it to the afternoon and take him out of school a little early for it. But missing all day for an 8am check-up? I just don't like that idea at all.Anyhow, she's resorted to the one word replies of "Fine" and "Okay", so she's pissed off about it and I don't really blame her since I took them out of school for a day to go to Michigan for our wedding in 2010. I'm a bigger hypocrite than Newt Gingrich.

Seriously? There's a massive difference between their dad's wedding and a 30 minute visit to the doctor.

Maybe you could be the one to finally talk sense into my ex-wife? Lord knows I've tried.

 

[Reg Lllama of Brixton]

ex-wife just emailed saying our oldest has his 9-year check-up apt at 8am in January. She asked if it was okay if she took him out of school for the whole day for this. I said 'no'. Does this make me the meanest dad in the world? I just don't like the idea of missing a full day of school for a check-up. Horrible message to send, IMO. Plus, the kid has perfect attendance. That said, I took them out of school in 2010 for a day to make it to my wedding in Michigan, so I'm a giant hypocrite, right?

So this is what parents worry about?

This is like a pimple on a whale's butt on what we have to worry about, but it just happened, so I thought i'd bring it up in my thread about nothing....and everything.

Don't listen to these guys. You are doing the lord's work here. I can't even tell you how many kids I have absent because of things besides actual illness.Before the end of the day to day I have to turn in 3 independent study packets for kids that won't be here the 1 or 2 weeks before Xmas. Why? Their parents all want take a long Xmas vacation. And those are just the ones that have notified us already. I'm sure I will have 6 or 7 more before Dec 19.Every day I have at least 4 kids called out of my class because they are leaving for something...dentist, Dr. etc. I know how hard it is to make appointments after school hours but I think a lot of people just don't think about it.

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

Just to be clear, I was mocking.

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

taking a kid out of school for his father's out of town wedding is perfectly reasonable. it would be ridiculous not to do this.

taking a kid out of a full day of school for a morning doctor appt makes no sense.

nothing about this makes you a hypocrite. are you nuts?

 

[Keys Myaths]

ex-wife just emailed saying our oldest has his 9-year check-up apt at 8am in January. She asked if it was okay if she took him out of school for the whole day for this. I said 'no'. Does this make me the meanest dad in the world? I just don't like the idea of missing a full day of school for a check-up. Horrible message to send, IMO. Plus, the kid has perfect attendance. That said, I took them out of school in 2010 for a day to make it to my wedding in Michigan, so I'm a giant hypocrite, right?

Why does it have to be a full day?

It doesn't. I told her to change it to the afternoon and take him out of school a little early for it. But missing all day for an 8am check-up? I just don't like that idea at all.Anyhow, she's resorted to the one word replies of "Fine" and "Okay", so she's pissed off about it and I don't really blame her since I took them out of school for a day to go to Michigan for our wedding in 2010. I'm a bigger hypocrite than Newt Gingrich.

Seriously? There's a massive difference between their dad's wedding and a 30 minute visit to the doctor.

Maybe you could be the one to finally talk sense into my ex-wife? Lord knows I've tried.

Oh good God, no. Just didn't want you to think the two were actually equal. You obviously don't, so let's pretend this conversation didn't happen.

 

[Reg Lllama of Brixton]

ex-wife just emailed saying our oldest has his 9-year check-up apt at 8am in January. She asked if it was okay if she took him out of school for the whole day for this. I said 'no'. Does this make me the meanest dad in the world? I just don't like the idea of missing a full day of school for a check-up. Horrible message to send, IMO. Plus, the kid has perfect attendance.

That said, I took them out of school in 2010 for a day to make it to my wedding in Michigan, so I'm a giant hypocrite, right?

So this is what parents worry about?

This is like a pimple on a whale's butt on what we have to worry about, but it just happened, so I thought i'd bring it up in my thread about nothing....and everything.

Didn't mean to sound mocking, just seems like you're extrapolating a lot of stuff out of a relatively minor thing.

No worries, I just thought I'd toss it out there as I am conflicted over it. I think it's a bad president to set, but I'm guilty of taking them out for a day to go to Michigan, so...that's all. Ignore me and let's move on to talk about Jeopardy.

Jimmy Carter?

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

ex-wife just emailed saying our oldest has his 9-year check-up apt at 8am in January. She asked if it was okay if she took him out of school for the whole day for this. I said 'no'. Does this make me the meanest dad in the world? I just don't like the idea of missing a full day of school for a check-up. Horrible message to send, IMO. Plus, the kid has perfect attendance.

That said, I took them out of school in 2010 for a day to make it to my wedding in Michigan, so I'm a giant hypocrite, right?

So this is what parents worry about?

This is like a pimple on a whale's butt on what we have to worry about, but it just happened, so I thought i'd bring it up in my thread about nothing....and everything.

Didn't mean to sound mocking, just seems like you're extrapolating a lot of stuff out of a relatively minor thing.

No worries, I just thought I'd toss it out there as I am conflicted over it. I think it's a bad president to set, but I'm guilty of taking them out for a day to go to Michigan, so...that's all. Ignore me and let's move on to talk about Jeopardy.

Jimmy Carter?

Kraft shtick.

 

[Mr. Pickles]

Mr. YSR tried to tell me that the players are given the answers ahead of time.

 

[General Malaise]

ex-wife just emailed saying our oldest has his 9-year check-up apt at 8am in January. She asked if it was okay if she took him out of school for the whole day for this. I said 'no'. Does this make me the meanest dad in the world? I just don't like the idea of missing a full day of school for a check-up. Horrible message to send, IMO. Plus, the kid has perfect attendance. That said, I took them out of school in 2010 for a day to make it to my wedding in Michigan, so I'm a giant hypocrite, right?

So this is what parents worry about?

This is like a pimple on a whale's butt on what we have to worry about, but it just happened, so I thought i'd bring it up in my thread about nothing....and everything.

Don't listen to these guys. You are doing the lord's work here. I can't even tell you how many kids I have absent because of things besides actual illness.Before the end of the day to day I have to turn in 3 independent study packets for kids that won't be here the 1 or 2 weeks before Xmas. Why? Their parents all want take a long Xmas vacation. And those are just the ones that have notified us already. I'm sure I will have 6 or 7 more before Dec 19.Every day I have at least 4 kids called out of my class because they are leaving for something...dentist, Dr. etc. I know how hard it is to make appointments after school hours but I think a lot of people just don't think about it.

My boys received their report cards on Monday and while I was pleased with many things on there (and displeased with a few - seems both have inherited my lousy handwriting skills) I was incredibly proud of both of them for going 52/52 on attendance.

 

[Woogie Lee]

ex-wife just emailed saying our oldest has his 9-year check-up apt at 8am in January. She asked if it was okay if she took him out of school for the whole day for this. I said 'no'. Does this make me the meanest dad in the world? I just don't like the idea of missing a full day of school for a check-up. Horrible message to send, IMO. Plus, the kid has perfect attendance. That said, I took them out of school in 2010 for a day to make it to my wedding in Michigan, so I'm a giant hypocrite, right?

So this is what parents worry about?

This is like a pimple on a whale's butt on what we have to worry about, but it just happened, so I thought i'd bring it up in my thread about nothing....and everything.

Don't listen to these guys. You are doing the lord's work here. I can't even tell you how many kids I have absent because of things besides actual illness.Before the end of the day to day I have to turn in 3 independent study packets for kids that won't be here the 1 or 2 weeks before Xmas. Why? Their parents all want take a long Xmas vacation. And those are just the ones that have notified us already. I'm sure I will have 6 or 7 more before Dec 19.Every day I have at least 4 kids called out of my class because they are leaving for something...dentist, Dr. etc. I know how hard it is to make appointments after school hours but I think a lot of people just don't think about it.

My boys received their report cards on Monday and while I was pleased with many things on there (and displeased with a few - seems both have inherited my lousy handwriting skills) I was incredibly proud of both of them for going 52/52 on attendance.

Good qualities to instill in your children: reliability and punctualityI commend you.

 

[St. Louis Bob]

screw you guys

 

[Keys Myaths]

Good qualities to instill in your children: reliability and punctuality

Exactly. Much, much more important than f'ing handwriting.Where they're going, they won't need...handwriting.

 

[Reg Lllama of Brixton]

My boys received their report cards on Monday and while I was pleased with many things on there (and displeased with a few - seems both have inherited my lousy handwriting skills) I was incredibly proud of both of them for going 52/52 on attendance.

I actually have a love/hate relationship with perfect attendance. Kids that don't miss any school because their parents don't yank them out at the drop of a hat or because they don't ever get sick/fake it are great.But I've had kids show up to school sounding like Doc Holiday because they didn't want to miss out on their Perfect Attendance award. I once was sick for the first week of Xmas break one year because this girl insisted on showing up for school with Captain Trips or something.

 

[dharmapunk]

Wait. Tanner was on Jeopardy! ?

Can a brother get a recap?

ETA: should have known that ni--a would be censored. The intellectual hip hop community frowns on these shenanigans.

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

Flysack>when did you find the FFA? You seem to not know very much about anyone or any history around here.

 

[General Malaise]

Flysack>when did you find the FFA? You seem to not know very much about anyone or any history around here.

Lolz...I'd probably also HIGHLY encourage Flysack deleting the *N* word asap. That could prove very costly here.

 

[Sarnoff]

Wait. Tanner was on Jeopardy! ?

Can a brother get a recap?

ETA: should have known that nigga would be censored. The intellectual hip hop community frowns on these shenanigans.

I still can't believe he missed that first Final Jeopardy. Beautiful clue.

 

[Woogie Lee]

Flysack>

whoa

 

[phishphan]

screw you guys

right back atcha, bob