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Beautiful men...and generally short.

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Beautiful.

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So beautiful.

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Quite an eyeful!

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R, you forgot Touche on Clark, didn't you? And the leather store right next door...

Just trying to provide the speck of knowledge I possess.

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One of the best compilations I've seen. Thank you.

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Pride looks awesome.

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The girl gets in her car and drives the 8 hours to and from Tampa! Simple! Problem solved!

DUH.........!

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I'll try to make up for BVB's slacking.

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I remember taking one. I remember ignoring it, and I can't remember what it said.

 

At that point, my mind was TOTALLY made up. I was going to be a high school band director.

 

(I have never been a high school band director, of course.)

 

Those tests are useful for possibly steering kids who have no idea what they want to do in life. For kids who have an idea, or a plan, or a drive, they're useless.

Join the club, deej. Once upon a time, I was going to be the World's Best Band Director too.

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I grew up in an Italian hood close to the Village, and I went to a pre-school and weekend day camp right off Christopher St. I remember walking past the bars on a Sunday afternoon holding my mother's hand, doors open guys spilling out onto the street screaming and laughing, and I must have asked my mother what these "parties" were that were going on, because I remember her yanking me and saying NEVERMIND. I had no idea what a gay bar was or even what gay was, but I remember REALLY wanting to see what was inside.

We also had a "queer" neighbor, an older guy (30's) who lived with his parents in our building. I remember his name was Carmine and he had long hair and again I had no idea what queer was but I knew it had something to do with being like a girl because I distinctly remember my older brother and his friends watching Carmine come down the front stoop carrying his bike and the guys cracking that he should have a GIRLS bike. I also remember coming home from the market with my mother and someone had grafitti-d his name on the side of our stoop and another word that I didn't know that in retrospect was probably FAG, because my mother took her shoe off and scraped at the cement with her heel to scratch the word off. I had NO idea what the word meant but I SO remember having some weird feeling that it had something to do with ME in some way.

That was a sweet thing for your mom to do.

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Awwww...just checked out some picks of Mr. Roberts and Mr. Abner together. TOO cute.

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OK, I just watched about 2 minutes of the clip...and seeing Mr. Roberts in action just might convince me to buy a TV again!

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Thanks for starting this thread. I was just about to, but remembered my "cyber-manners" and checked first. That is some eye candy for sure!

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That is a lot of work when you are high all the time. Where did you find the energy. When I am high, I can barely move.

Hey, at some schools the contact buzz alone will do the trick!

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Odd Girl Out again........

I have three degrees, two of which I don't "use." The English one has helped me make a living; the music ones have helped me make a life. Granted, my undergrad was almost totally paid for with merit-based scholarships (my parents got money back after room, board, and books my freshman year.) I also got an assistantship for graduate school. Thus, I did not have the crippling debt kids face today, thank all deities. But there's a different mindset between "going to college to learn something" and "going to college to get a job." Many of those who choose the latter end up jobless anyway.

Cheryl Richardson, a moderately woo-woo self-help/motivational guru whom I like a lot, suggested that people delay college until their 30th birthday. They should graduate from high school and then give themselves a chance to try a little bit of everything before they shell out years of life and scads of money on a gamble. Makes sense to me.

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PS The aforementioned Ms. Richardson has no college degree and makes a FUCKTON more money than I do.

PPS I teach at one of the few comprehensive high schools left in the country. Our students' vocational programs are on-site, not at a separate facility. Those who find a viable career path in high school have a huge advantage over those who go to our local two-year college to "find themselves."

Years ago, The New Yorker published an article about The Most Interesting Man in the World. If I remember correctly, his Dos Equis persona isn't much different from the real him; the guy really had seen and done it all.

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When I was young, the assumption was that a college education would expose you to ideas and information, allow you to discover what you wanted to do with your life, help you to become a mature adult, and if all that happened, you would find some way to support yourself. Now the assumption seems to be that the purpose of college is to provide you with a ticket for a well-paid job in finance, government, business, technology, or medicine, from the moment you graduate until you retire. I find that very depressing.

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ever get sand in weird places...

...hang out in nudist camps.

PLEASE tell me the fourth guy doesn't have a tat of Medusa on his arm.........

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Ooooooh...nice! No biting, just sweetsie.

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This weekend, it was $1.79 on the IN toll road.

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I have two turntables, but only one works.

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Oh, you KNOW we clarinetists can do things with our mouths!

OK...awkward mo' right about now...

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All that and a word nerd too! Thanks Uni!

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