A child of the Southwest and of the 50s -- a woman who knew me well once said, 'Yeah, the 1850s.' Generally culturally conservative and distrustful of new and improved innovative change. Very seldom overtly serious, but many a truth is spoke in jest and all of my truths are. Worked my way through UT when I was up in my 30s. If I'd, by some horrible miscalculation ended up in Bryan, I would've worked my way through that school over there. Have worked all over in printing and publishing. I've held a bunch of jobs and quit all of them but one. I am a journeyman printer and followed the trade and heard its dying gasps as it was throttled by technological change. I had a sponsored blog on a newspaper but quit the job.
Sometimes the title of the article gets my panties in a wad, also. This one:"Pasadena school dogs chronic dropouts" First of all, I thought it was about dogs who work in the schools (like drug sniffers and proceeded to drop out of school and they had to replace that dog, who eventually dropped out.) Chronic dropouts are what? Once you've dropped out, you can't be chronic, can you? Chronic absences, I understand, but chronic dropouts?
Sugar, the first line I thought of was, "It was a dark and stormy night..." also. Great minds and all that.
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It was a dark and stormy night...
oh.
So THAT'S the place from where the VicAd rips off their insipid little banalities.
Wow. I thought *I* had a lack of imagination, but jeez, that's just sad.
Did like the one about the mayor in the nosebleed section, almost to "the moon".
I swear I had some seats at a Billy Joel concert that could have fit that description.
Worst seats EVER.
OK, I swear I cannot help myself here.
I went to visit the Crapocate online after I left your site, and the "headline" I was greeted with reads thusly:
"An air of giddiness hung in the hallways of Cade Middle School on Friday."
I swear I could not make this stuff up.
+ they had Rep. Geanie Morrison's name misspelled on a Page 1 cutline. Even Advocate copy editors should know how to spell the local rep's name.
Sometimes the title of the article gets my panties in a wad, also. This one:"Pasadena school dogs chronic dropouts" First of all, I thought it was about dogs who work in the schools (like drug sniffers and proceeded to drop out of school and they had to replace that dog, who eventually dropped out.) Chronic dropouts are what? Once you've dropped out, you can't be chronic, can you? Chronic absences, I understand, but chronic dropouts?
Sugar, the first line I thought of was, "It was a dark and stormy night..." also. Great minds and all that.
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