Re: Recruiters who place people first...

On Tue, 15 May 2007 20:22:51 +0000 (UTC), sethb@xxxxxxxxx (Seth)
wrote:

In article <slrnf4cddu.6ls.tai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Tai <tai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
While pretending to be roadkill on the InfoBahn, <stevev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> scrawled:

Some dolt of a teacher looked at my paper, said "doltar isn't a word",
and marked it with a red pen. I think at the time I was too surprised
at her misreading to say anything.

I was in standard 2, 8 yo. We were supposed to come up with
synonyms for a list of words. One of the words was "jail". I picked up
my father's handy dandy thesaurus, and found the biggest, longest,
hardest looking words. Penitentiary is not a real word, apparently.
Not only that, everyone in class was asked to look at the class example
of someone who did not bother to do the work, and simply made things up.
All 10 words I picked up were wrong. Some time later, a family friend
was looking at that, and it turns out that all 10 words were correct.

One thing I really liked about Bronx Science is that teachers who
weren't smarter than the students tended to last very quickly.

I hope you were intending to write something along the lines of "leave
very quickly", or "not last very long".

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