Old things youngins might like to know

[Jessica]

Abacus? Ciphering? Ok, what are those?

It's what you use when your doing your goesinta's.
Such as two goesinta four two times

[TonyaW]

It's what you use when your doing your goesinta's.
Such as two goesinta four two times

I saw that episode Jethro. 

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[Jessica]

I saw that episode Jethro. 

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I'm more of Jethro's twin sister Jethrine Bodine

[TonyaW]

Jethrine could kick Jethro's butt as I recall. 
But as Jed said "weeeeee doggies that boy can cipher"

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[Lady Sarah]

I would have just failed. Naked at school? Oh no no no no! Wouldn't ever happen with me. And people get so stressed over a trans person in the locker room.

Nobody wanted me in the locker room back then either. So, I helped the gym teachers find me other stuff to do. It was dangerous going into a locker room when everybody thought I was an effeminate gay.

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[tgirlamg]

Jethrine could kick Jethro's butt as I recall. 
But as Jed said "weeeeee doggies that boy can cipher"

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I got me some cypherin' fer ya...

Naught times naught is naught!!!

[Julia1996]

Nobody wanted me in the locker room back then either. So, I helped the gym teachers find me other stuff to do. It was dangerous going into a locker room when everybody thought I was an effeminate gay.

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I know. I was excused from gym class because I can't be in the sun. But the few times I did enter to give the teacher a note or something, the boys threw stuff at me like dirty socks and underwear.  I once had one of the big ape jock guy rub his nasty sock in my face. I can't even imagine having to be in there every day. It would have been totally horrible.

[Jessica]

I got me some cypherin' fer ya...

Naught times naught is naught!!!

Yu dun past yer schoolin' dint ya

[DawnOday]

Nobody wanted me in the locker room back then either. So, I helped the gym teachers find me other stuff to do. It was dangerous going into a locker room when everybody thought I was an effeminate gay.

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I hated going to gym even though I played basketball and baseball. When everyone else is well endowed and there you stand with "little smokey" and no pubes, you end up getting teased and have to defend what you don't have a clue why it is so small. I have an idea now why, but to a teen it was so embarrassing.

[Julia1996]

Yu dun past yer schoolin' dint ya

Wow, you all got learned real good. That's a quality edjumacation you got there.

[Claire]

I hated going to gym even though I played basketball and baseball. When everyone else is well endowed and there you stand with "little smokey" and no pubes, you end up getting teased and have to defend what you don't have a clue why it is so small. I have an idea now why, but to a teen it was so embarrassing.

Gym was a nightmare for me in many ways. Hated it. But I was (and still am) a goody two shoes (I bet you don't know that expression). I figured out in senior year that you couldn't fail with just one F so I skipped gym for my last quarter and just showed up at a study hall from the first day. See what I mean about a goody two shoes? I skipped gym and went to a study hall.


Claire -

[Lady Sarah]

Gym was a nightmare for me in many ways. Hated it. But I was (and still am) a goody two shoes (I bet you don't know that expression). I figured out in senior year that you couldn't fail with just one F so I skipped gym for my last quarter and just showed up at a study hall from the first day. See what I mean about a goody two shoes? I skipped gym and went to a study hall.


Claire -

I actually worked it out with my teachers and guidance counselor, so I took home economics classes instead of gym. The gym teachers were glad to get rid of me after I got violent no matter what the sport. Ever hear of tackle-baseball? I hated gym that much.

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[Cassi]

PE was required for 7th grade and up.  I hated PE myself and I was a year younger than all the other students so it made it doubling weird.  My PE class was the last one of the day so I ditched it a lot.  In 8th grade they put me in what people called Ortho PE.  Didn't do much other than sit around and didn't have to get naked.

Then one weekend I was at the local boy scout camp teaching some younger scouts how to swim.  Who shows up to pick up one of the kids I'm teaching but my PE teacher.  He observes me for a while and then asks why I was in his class if I could do this stuff.  I said I don't know.  The following Monday I was back in regular PE.

In high school if you were in ROTC you didn't have to have PE so I went that route.  I have always been uncomfortable around naked guys, myself included.  Kinda weird then but understandable now.

[Julia1996]

Gym was a nightmare for me in many ways. Hated it. But I was (and still am) a goody two shoes (I bet you don't know that expression). I figured out in senior year that you couldn't fail with just one F so I skipped gym for my last quarter and just showed up at a study hall from the first day. See what I mean about a goody two shoes? I skipped gym and went to a study hall.


Claire -

Lol, at my school you would have been called a nerd or poindexter. That's what the really good people were called.

[TonyaW]

Lol, at my school you would have been called a nerd or poindexter. That's what the really good people were called.

And back to thread title,

Poindexter

noun

a person who is intelligent
but socially inept; a nerd

Word Origin

either from "Felix the Cat" or

"Revenge of theNerds"

Imma go with Felix, he came first.

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[Julia1996]

And back to thread title,

Poindexter

noun

a person who is intelligent
but socially inept; a nerd

Word Origin

either from "Felix the Cat" or

"Revenge of theNerds"

Imma go with Felix, he came first.

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Oh. I never thought about where the word came from. I wasn't even sure it was a real word. Lol

[Sephirah]

80's power ballads!

This one is my all time favourite. The music back then was epic, haha. The big hair was something else, lol. This is the song of my childhood

[Lady Sarah]

80's power ballads!

This one is my all time favourite. The music back then was epic, haha. The big hair was something else, lol. This is the song of my childhood

Ah yes. I listened to Poison, Great White, and Bon Jovi. Most of the kids preferred that "new age music" someone came up with.

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[Deborah]

I'm too old for all that new music.  My  music was Black Sabbath,  Nazareth, Iron Butterfly, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, and Pink Floyd for those out of body times.


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[Anne Blake]

Deborah, I have to notch that back a couple of steps. I remember watching a free performance by Peter, Paul and Mary when they were so young sometime around 1961 or 62.