Re: Arkansas

On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 09:25:41 +1000, Richard Bollard
<richardb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 03:18:11 -0700, Mack A. Damia
<mybaconbutty@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

...

My last name is Procter, and I once visited the archivist at P & G in
Cincinnati. We had a long chat, and he showed me on a map how the
Procters had emigrated throughout the world. He claimed that we are
all related to one another having originated in England. It's a
fairly uncommon name and is a variation of Proctor ( the university
official ) which isn't as uncommon. My name is always getting spelled
that way in the U.S. - but not in Mexico where I live most of the
time.

Intereresting (to me) that I can give somebody a document with my name
spelled correctly, and he/she will copy it with my name spelled
incorrectly. I have always dreaded the moment just prior to getting a
professionally printed diploma or official document. I haven't had
any problems with diplomas, but I've had misspellings on auto
registrations, licenses, etc.


So the spelling can be a bit of a gamble.

I'll wash your mouth out with soap for that comment, sir.


Reminds me of a story.

I taught speical education at Jackie Robinson IHS in Crown Heights,
Brooklyn, for a while in the 1980s. It's across the road from the old
Ebbets Field, which was torn down to make room for a low-income high
rise.

I had a group of emotionally handicapped kids. One of them was a
pleasant moon-faced child - but he supposedly suffered from Tourette
Syndrome

I never noticed it at all until a woman teacher entered the room,
then, he would say something very rude and inappropriate to her.
Disgustingly rude, too - referring to her genitals.

I had enough of it, so I brought a bar of Ivory Soap in one morning. I
explained to him that this was my Uncle William's soap , and I showed
him my name on the bar. I told him he was going to taste it if he
persisted in using bad language when women were present.

It took about three times. I would hold his mouth and slide the bar
of soap across his teeth - not violently - he was a slight child. I'd
say, "It's time for Uncle Willie's soap!"

It stopped his Tourette Syndrome - at least in my classroom.

At the end of the school year, he came in with his mother, and they
both thanked me for helping him. He said, "Thank you, Mr. Procter,
for making me behave myself".

Of course, the school administrators were not too pleased - as
strictly speaking, soap in the mouth constitutes corporal punishment.
My attitude towards them was, "Tough - you're not the one teaching
him."



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