Men and Women - Here's a topic for hot debate

[Yorkshire pud]

There's still time Yorky.  There's still time.

Will watching Black Adder, Spitting Image and Young Ones in later years make amends?

[West of the Rockies]

There's still time Yorky.  There's still time.

We have even more in common than I thought!  Well, except that I am one year older (turned 18 in 1980) and was hopelessly geeky, spending my nights working at a small publishing house, playing chess, watching TV with the folks, and dreaming of the day when Jaclyn Smith would finally wander into my little town and realize I was she man she was to supposed to be with!

[Yorkshire pud]

We have even more in common than I thought!  Well, except that I am one year older (turned 18 in 1980) and was hopelessly geeky, spending my nights working at a small publishing house, playing chess, watching TV with the folks, and dreaming of the day when Jaclyn Smith would finally wander into my little town and realize I was she man she was to supposed to be with!

When I see her next I'll tell it was her loss my friend. It surely was..Sorry for calling you Shirley.

[West of the Rockies]

No offense taken, YP!  Shirley, you jest!

Okay, regarding the aforementioned Jaclyn Smith, I will go public and admit that I have always had a thing for older women... Picked up the habit as a Catholic schoolboy... (Do we have any recovering Catholics who catch my lowgrade pun?)

[Yorkshire pud]

No offense taken, YP!  Shirley, you jest!

Okay, regarding the aforementioned Jaclyn Smith, I will go public and admit that I have always had a thing for older women... Picked up the habit as a Catholic schoolboy... (Do we have any recovering Catholics who catch my lowgrade pun?)

I'm not Catholic but I too have always been attracted to older women.

[WhiteCrow]

No offense taken, YP!  Shirley, you jest!

Okay, regarding the aforementioned Jaclyn Smith, I will go public and admit that I have always had a thing for older women... Picked up the habit as a Catholic schoolboy... (Do we have any recovering Catholics who catch my lowgrade pun?)

Q. Are you allowed to kiss a Nun?
A. Yes but don't get into the Habit.

[b_dubb]

Will watching Black Adder, Spitting Image and Young Ones in later years make amends?

No but that might help

[UnscreenedCaller]

... Picked up the habit as a Catholic schoolboy... (Do we have any recovering Catholics who catch my lowgrade pun?)

Ex-Catholic schoolgirl here: Picked up the habit, did you? You must have earned quite the rap on the knuckles for that offense. 

[West of the Rockies]

Oh, I am sure we could swap stories!  I was at St. Mary's in SoCal in the 60's-early 70's.  I do recall the ruler, slaps across the face, and one girl being tied to her desk with jump ropes and tape!  Frustrated women there, boy!

[Yorkshire pud]

and one girl being tied to her desk with jump ropes and tape! 

I've seen 'The Secretary' too. Don't knock it till you've tried it... 

[UnscreenedCaller]

Oh, I am sure we could swap stories!  I was at St. Mary's in SoCal in the 60's-early 70's.  I do recall the ruler, slaps across the face, and one girl being tied to her desk with jump ropes and tape!  Frustrated women there, boy!

Pointer on the rear for me, frequently, because I was a troublemaker as in a frequent visitor to 'The Office'. I never actually went. I'd duck down to the girl's room and tell my teacher that Sister said don't do it again. By the time the day was over, they'd forgotten and they never checked. All this makes me a better teacher today, lol.

[West of the Rockies]

Does anyone remember "the chokie" (a discipline device used by the horrible teacher in the book and movie Matilda)?  Besting kids into submission is always the way to assure intellectual curiosity!

[paladin1991]

No offense taken, YP!  Shirley, you jest!

Okay, regarding the aforementioned Jaclyn Smith, I will go public and admit that I have always had a thing for older women... Picked up the habit as a Catholic schoolboy... (Do we have any recovering Catholics who catch my lowgrade pun?)

I'd put my hand in the air 'cept there's no one to swipe at it with a ruler.   Oh, yes, the swish of laminated ruler wood through the air, the crack of said wood, ooooooh such goooood woood, against the fingers and THEN the cold burn that followed but came before the pain.... and that ice brittle stare....gives a man a shiver don't it?

[paladin1991]

Ex-Catholic schoolgirl here: Picked up the habit, did you? You must have earned quite the rap on the knuckles for that offense. 

Did you wear black patent leather shoes? 

[paladin1991]

Oh, I am sure we could swap stories!  I was at St. Mary's in SoCal in the 60's-early 70's.  I do recall the ruler, slaps across the face, and one girl being tied to her desk with jump ropes and tape!  Frustrated women there, boy!

Which Saint Mary's?  I went to Sacred Heart.  You know which one, don't you?

[paladin1991]

Does anyone remember "the chokie" (a discipline device used by the horrible teacher in the book and movie Matilda)?  Besting kids into submission is always the way to assure intellectual curiosity!

We had an Art teacher, Mrs Hanks, who would give us The Spock until we pissed ourselves.   It's funny now.


Come to think of it.  It was funny then when it happened to your friends.

[UnscreenedCaller]

Did you wear black patent leather shoes?

Oh sure, you know, the usual: patent leather high heels, short grey plaid skirt, beret, all de rigueur for the well appointed Catholic schoolgirl.

[b_dubb]

Oh sure, you know, the usual: patent leather high heels, short grey plaid skirt, beret, all de rigueur for the well appointed Catholic schoolgirl.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0n6sSCEF00U

[paladin1991]

Oh sure, you know, the usual: patent leather high heels, short grey plaid skirt, beret, all de rigueur for the well appointed Catholic schoolgirl.

Heheh.  Just like I mis- remember.  MMmmmmmmm, yummy!

[West of the Rockies]

Which Saint Mary's?  I went to Sacred Heart.  You know which one, don't you?

Hey, Paladin... I left the school in 1973 after five years (we moved to a new town), so I don't recall that particular name (Sacred Heart).  I recall pondering which Catholic High School I'd be sent to:  Servite, Mater Dei...

Ended up going to public school in northern Cal, and my family essentially left the church.    Funny though, those old uniforms haven't really changed all that much in the last 40 years!

[paladin1991]

West of, I ended up going to Damien High over in La Verne.  We moved to San Dimas, the next city over. 
Servite, heh, it's now a 5 min drive fm where I live here in Anacrime.

I think I am confusing the previous post of 'St. Mary's' with Holy Name of Mary, in San Dimas.

[West of the Rockies]

Oh, I grew up (metaphorically speaking) in the shadow of The Big A (the California Angels stadium -- as both the stadium and the team were then known).  We could see the fireworks of Disneyland from a second-story window as I recall.  I used to LOVE listening to Dick Enberg announcing the Angels and Rams games, the masterful Vin Scully narrating a Dodgers game:  "Well, hello everybody, and welcome to Dodger Stadium... it's a perfectly marvelous afternoon for a game, so if you have the time, pull up a chair and join us.  The Cincinatti Reds are in town with a gaudy nine-game winning streak...."

[UnscreenedCaller]

Heheh.  Just like I mis- remember.  MMmmmmmmm, yummy!

Oh yeah, keeping seams straight and all those snaps fastened is a memory I'd like to misremember myself, lol.

[UnscreenedCaller]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0n6sSCEF00U

hahahaha!

[area51drone]

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