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justlurkin, Fab, you’ll fit right in! [bxgrl, we need two new tiaras by the end of the week – get crackin’!] and you’re in the neighborhood—you can meet CGar and Gar-dog at Cobble Hill Park!
“Off the grid”…oooh, so intriguing. But it worries me that you aren’t willing to invest 6,547 hours of your time to read our incredibly over-worked and infinitely tedious manual of rules of conduct. I’m not sure you are taking this seriously enough.
Not a chance cobble. No e-divorce, bxgrl. Street brawling for my women was in a former life. DIBS is my Team captain. I think. There’s been some confusion today, given Barbi’s “intelligence” (may she rest in peace).
Hey folks, just got back. Yes, Texas has a stranglehold on the textbook market, but California runs a close second, and they’re the two largest states. Try writing a textbook to please both of those populations and you’ll wind up with the most boooooooring description of American history ever, which is what most textbooks are. It’s instructive to look at older books, which actually had TEXT in them, and weren’t filled with sidebars, pictures, graphs, charts, and lots of color. Those books actually told a good story! Rob, your book is certainly for some type of Christian school.
Textbooks are already being replaced by flash drives in some schools – in a few decades they’ll go the way of the slide rule.
There are other odd stories about textbooks. There is a large population of Armenian-Americans in California, and one of their organizations started to complain that Armenians were absent from American history books. A suitable Armenian-American (not sure who it was, but it should have been Cher) was found for a sidebar bio, and suddenly every kid in the entire state had info on this group.
I found an old world history book that had one picture of black people, with the caption “Stone Age people today” – and another called “Men and Nations” which started something like: History is a story of men and their accomplishments. Wherever men have gone, they have altered the environment around them…etc. When I get home I’ll find the whole thing.
DH – I’ll be there tomorrow. JB won’t be, unless she surprises us!
Thanks, CH. I LUV a tiara (and feathers) . . . see my earlier posts on my new neighbor Bjork. Not so good w/a rule book though. I like to live off the grid.
justlurkin, Fab, you’ll fit right in! [bxgrl, we need two new tiaras by the end of the week – get crackin’!] and you’re in the neighborhood—you can meet CGar and Gar-dog at Cobble Hill Park!
“Off the grid”…oooh, so intriguing. But it worries me that you aren’t willing to invest 6,547 hours of your time to read our incredibly over-worked and infinitely tedious manual of rules of conduct. I’m not sure you are taking this seriously enough.
Kens, can you provide subtitles to your last post? I have no idea what you said.
CGar, what can I say? I’ve always been an exceptionally curious guy, which is very dangerous when combined with my love of beer and bourbon.
“CGar, are you moving out, so soon??”
Not a chance cobble. No e-divorce, bxgrl. Street brawling for my women was in a former life. DIBS is my Team captain. I think. There’s been some confusion today, given Barbi’s “intelligence” (may she rest in peace).
Hey folks, just got back. Yes, Texas has a stranglehold on the textbook market, but California runs a close second, and they’re the two largest states. Try writing a textbook to please both of those populations and you’ll wind up with the most boooooooring description of American history ever, which is what most textbooks are. It’s instructive to look at older books, which actually had TEXT in them, and weren’t filled with sidebars, pictures, graphs, charts, and lots of color. Those books actually told a good story! Rob, your book is certainly for some type of Christian school.
Textbooks are already being replaced by flash drives in some schools – in a few decades they’ll go the way of the slide rule.
There are other odd stories about textbooks. There is a large population of Armenian-Americans in California, and one of their organizations started to complain that Armenians were absent from American history books. A suitable Armenian-American (not sure who it was, but it should have been Cher) was found for a sidebar bio, and suddenly every kid in the entire state had info on this group.
I found an old world history book that had one picture of black people, with the caption “Stone Age people today” – and another called “Men and Nations” which started something like: History is a story of men and their accomplishments. Wherever men have gone, they have altered the environment around them…etc. When I get home I’ll find the whole thing.
DH – I’ll be there tomorrow. JB won’t be, unless she surprises us!
Thanks, CH. I LUV a tiara (and feathers) . . . see my earlier posts on my new neighbor Bjork. Not so good w/a rule book though. I like to live off the grid.
bxgrl, you do NOT look like the Bride of Frankenstein, and I guess we won’t be divorcin’ since I can’t part with the Gar-dog.
G10, SDWF=Single Dead White Female
Thanks, bxgrl. I think I’ll just drop this subject going forward.
CGar, are you moving out, so soon?? Chad and I would like 2 months notice please!!
Your womEN!! Plural! O…M…G…
bxgrl, It’s worse than you think. Get out now. Snappy will handle the e-divorce for you!
DIBS, obscene AND tasteless? Right up my alley!