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If you reward people for doing extraordinary things, they will strive to do the extraordinary. If you reward people for doing ordinary things, they will be content to do the ordinary.
In New Guinea,
don’t they make you climb a wooden tower
and throw you off with a “bungee” strapped
to your weiner or something like that…
for your 18th birthday?
You guys seem to be using “milestone” to mean “point in time that just goes by.” I prefer to give people money for “accomplishment.”
An 18th birthday is a milestone for a child but an accomplishment for his parents. You know what? Give 100 bucks to this kid’s parents for the accomplishment of raising a child who made it to the milestone of high school graduation presumably without being a delinquent.
lol lechacal,
doesn’t NYC pay students to finish each grade now?
I think you get like 50 bucks for finishing high school,
signed by the Mayor.
A graduation gift signifies to the kid that his elders think education is important & give recognition to his making it that far. I’d thought it was just a minor milestone until a child I know almost didn’t make it.
If you reward people for doing extraordinary things, they will strive to do the extraordinary. If you reward people for doing ordinary things, they will be content to do the ordinary.
Haha, Biff, Legion, I also love Catch-22. To some this may be sacrilege, but, IMHO, the movie version is also a good adaptation.
In New Guinea,
don’t they make you climb a wooden tower
and throw you off with a “bungee” strapped
to your weiner or something like that…
for your 18th birthday?
“doesn’t NYC pay students to finish each grade now?
I think you get like 50 bucks for finishing high school,
signed by the Mayor.”
If somebody gives me money signed by the mayor of NYC my next call is going to be to the Secret Service.
By lechacal on April 26, 2010 2:41 PM
You guys seem to be using “milestone” to mean “point in time that just goes by.” I prefer to give people money for “accomplishment.”
An 18th birthday is a milestone for a child but an accomplishment for his parents. You know what? Give 100 bucks to this kid’s parents for the accomplishment of raising a child who made it to the milestone of high school graduation presumably without being a delinquent.
lol lechacal,
doesn’t NYC pay students to finish each grade now?
I think you get like 50 bucks for finishing high school,
signed by the Mayor.
How about an oil lamp for burning midnight oil at college? Or a 2-ended candle & a copy of Edna St. V-M’s poem?
Looks like Benson found another admirer.
(Keep fighting the good fight, Benson!)
c’mon, lechancal. You know I was refering
to (mis)management in union and non-union locales.
A graduation gift signifies to the kid that his elders think education is important & give recognition to his making it that far. I’d thought it was just a minor milestone until a child I know almost didn’t make it.