New England Off Topic and Banter as Most Brilliantly Proposed by Cape Cod MINI

[yellowmininy]

God forbid anyone should a) get unsanctioned exercise, and b) wave peanut butter sandwiches about. I just saw a study recently suggesting that kids who come from homes with pets have fewer pet allergies, not more. Makes you wonder...

And I have peanut butter allergies!

[NoNo]

While I don't like the peanut butter banning, I'm all for the tag banning. In elementary school, the gym would double as the sales floor for the flower show and other such fundraisers. That meant the brilliant idea of "indoor gym". Nothing like playing dodgeball in the classroom, without even moving the desks. I went to duck, slammed my chin on the desk, and ping! there goes half my front tooth. Mr. Castellon, the jerk of a gym teacher, took my tooth and threw it in the trash, and said in the most sarcastic of voices "I guess you'll want to go to the nurse now!" Moral of the story: tag/dodgeball/Mr. Castellon BAD!

[jwardell]

My experience agrees, 99% of gym teachers suck.
But they're stuck teaching "health" too so they're probably just ticked about it.

[NoNo]

We always had separate health teachers, so that's no excuse for him. He also got mad at me when I broke my collar bone and had a note from my doctor excusing me from gym. "Fine! Go sit on the bleachers!" And then he wouldn't let my friend go to the nurse despite getting slammed on the hand with a hockey stick. It ended up that her finger was broken. Not to mention all the creepy stretching exercises (we didn't have uniforms in elementary school, so if you forgot and wore a skirt........) Yeah, he was a jerk. But my cousin is going to Keene to be a gym teacher, so maybe there'll be a new breed that actually enjoys their job. I also had the stereotypical gay music teacher. We were always forced to sing an octave higher than necessary. Good times in Wallyworld, CT (that's Wallingford to you outsiders).

[bjl]

I liked gym class. NoNo, sounds like you had an awesome gym teacher - I'm picturing Bruce Campbell as your gym teacher. Dodge ball in a classroom sounds fun!

[blalor]

Sure, it's all fun and games until someone loses a tooth!

[NoNo]

Quote: Originally Posted by bjl (original)

I liked gym class. NoNo, sounds like you had an awesome gym teacher - I'm picturing Bruce Campbell as your gym teacher. Dodge ball in a classroom sounds fun!

Yes, pedophiles are fantastic

[MGB Boy]

Quote: Originally Posted by NoNo (original)

Moral of the story: tag/dodgeball/Mr. Castellon BAD!

If you can dodge a wrench...

-Ricardo

[retsej]

Quote: Originally Posted by holdenontoit (original)

My oldest son Nicholas , who lives in Montana , shot his first deer a few years ago and was told by his hunting buddy that he had to eat the liver still warm out of the carcass. .

I had to eat the heart

[GadgetGav]

Quote: Originally Posted by retsej (original)

I had to eat the heart

*HAD* to, or wanted to..??

[GadgetGav]

Quote: Originally Posted by NoNo (original)

I went to duck, slammed my chin on the desk, and ping! there goes half my front tooth

Pah! I lost half of both of my front teeth (no, not one whole tooth) going over the handlebars of my shiny new racing bike on my 11th birthday. I literally bit the road thanks to a friend's brother who cut me off and knocked the wheel / handlebars out of my hands. I was progressing from a chopper style with small front wheel and cow horn handlebars to a 'proper' racer with big wheels and drop handlebars and it didn't take a lot to launch me over the front..!

I don't remember too many creepy gym teachers (though I heard one of the girl's gym teachers used to creep them out) but we did have one who looked just like Yosemite Sam...! Short, bright red hair, beard...

[NoNo]

"Pah"? What are you, an 80 year-old man? I'm having trouble visualizing these bikes. What are drop handlebars? And whatever happened to a good old Huffy?

[snid]

Quote: Originally Posted by NoNo (original)

"Pah"? What are you, an 80 year-old man? I'm having trouble visualizing these bikes. What are drop handlebars?

Man, I wasted my 3000th post on that?

[NoNo]

Made me laugh!

[NoNo]

And if he was tooling around on that, then maybe Gavin is an 80 year-old man!