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#45315 10/20/01 11:20 PM
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Lucky you! i tried the same in geometry.. i got called on to provide the area of a regular polygon.. and i looked up from i remember this well, i had just gotten permission that very day to read it, and was hell bent on reading non-stopValley of the Dolls, and had the answer in seconds.

the teacher was red faced with anger. he thought he was going to catch me out.. I ended up with a 90 on the regents (hot shot NY State-wide test) but he gave me a 75 as final grade.


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in the annals of AWADtalk, I have been patsy more often than perpetrator.
I find that hard to believe, wwh. P.S. What do we call these lint pickers anyway? Some, like your teacher, collect lint balls, I suspect. But most pick away at imaginary lint in some sort of grooming ritual calculated to make the groomee more submissive.




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Dear gymkhana: And I would rather lose an argument than lose a friend or make an enemy.


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Dear moss: That teacher who picked lint always made it clear that it was a bit of affection, that she liked us, and I am now ashamed of having played the joke on her. I bitterly regret that I never found the occasion, nor made the necessary effort to thank the many teachers to whom I owed so much.


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But most pick away at imaginary lint in some sort of grooming ritual calculated to make the groomee more submissive.


Oh, i don't know, it could be done as an opening gambit. a way of initiating touch with some one you like..
oh, excuse me, Mr. X, you have some lint, let me remove it...



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I bitterly regret that I never found the occasion, nor made the necessary effort to thank the many teachers to whom I owed so much.
You're making up for it, wwm. You are an example for others to follow. Myself included.


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I have been "sconsed" a few times myself ... usually when I am doing my own "sconsing". Would you call this a "double sconse"?
Order me a double scotch.


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Hi, gk: Back in the days when I was a 'trainer', there was a concept used in Conflict Management courses called 'holding the snowball'.


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Woah! Bad, naughty Guy Noble, lighting our sconser-shaped beacon but not telling the audience where it comes from.

'Sconser' is this sense was created by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd for their fount of new words, The Meaning of Liff. Before that it had been wasting its time being a British place-name.

The website quoting it is of ABC-FM (or ABC Classic FM as they now call it), Australia's equivalent of BBC Radio 3. The morning announcer, Guy Noble, is a pleasant and humorous chap (not unlike Humphrey Carpenter in a way, if you know him), who each morning reads out a peculiar word sent in by listeners. On Friday he combines them in a sentence.


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How did I get the idea that a sconce was a drinking vessel of some kind used for toasts?

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