Word For The Day, Thursday, March 9, 2006 - Hobson's choice

dictionaries ad nauseum, internet | March 9, 2006 | secret garden

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Pretty soon the Mullahs of Iran and that little punk, I'mDeadInAJar, will be faced with the Hobson's Choice of having to back up their fiery rhetoric with real action or having to back down and lose their tenuous grip on power. I presume that, when forced to choose between death and dishonor, these low-lifes will do what cowards and bullies have done since Cain slew Abel, and choose dishonor.

[xsmommy]

there is always going to be a disparity, i just don't see it changing. Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology is one of the most competitive HSs in NoVA. Public school and requires an admissions test.

[tioga]

Happy Birthday!!!!!!!! To you and your son!!!!!!!

I baked this just for you.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Five miles a day.

I recall Rodney Dangerfield's great line about jogging. He was overweight and went to some fancy doctor on Park Avenue in New York. The doctor told him to jog ten miles a day. Rodney said,

"I called him a week later and asked, 'What do I do now? I'm in Philadelphia.'"

[Robert A Cook PE]

8<)

[Gabz]

I had to take an admissions test for a particular public HS I wanted to attend. I passed the test with flying colors - but too many from my district were already enrolled and so I couldn't get a variance to get in.

I don't see the issue with admissions tests.........but then I'm not a public school teacher in a failing HS in Delaware that is afraid to admit the charter schools, which are not controled by the State Education Association, are far superior.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Funny how that works: Start a good school, run a GOOD school with ordinary logic and common sense, one that that is actually HARD to get into and HARD to stay in and HARD to finish, and applications go through the roof!

Run poor and mediocre schools, easy to enter, even easier to get through without learning anything or applying oneself, and you find people ignore them in droves.

[xsmommy]

no wonder they are terrified of vouchers.

[Gabz]

And add in those that can't get into the good one and the ones who run the poor and mediocre ones want to bring the good ones down to their level, instead of striving to go UP.

No such thing as common sense.

[xsmommy]

happy bday Cardinal and son! i got the cake on sale, imagine it says HAPPY BDAY like ti's does!

[Gabz]

Precisely.

[tioga]

Some how I knew you liked red as a baby. ;)

What a cutie!!!!!!!!

[tioga]

Where the heck have you been ??????? I have missed seeing you in class.

[xsmommy]

OMG marauding Polish Fruits!

[xsmommy]

isn't she adorable!! and i think she must be sleeping IN on her bday! Hope she got bfast in bed!

[Hegewisch Dupa]

Now you don't only not want to know how many of them it takes to screw in a light bulb, but please don't ask where....

[tioga]

I don't have a copy of my Freepmail......but I must have misspelled the name..........it's a good thing I finally made it to class. It's an Ava day today so I am multitasking.

[martin_fierro]

I like the security guys and their "umbrellas."

[xsmommy]

you just know how unattractive a group that could possibly be....

[xsmommy]

eeeewwww... what sort of liquid are they afraid of????