Posted on 01/03/2008 6:35:58 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
I don’t own anything here except one tv, the pc, and the contents of the dresser and closet.
Good Evening G’nad, Mrsnad. By now you’re back on theridge, we’re very glad to hear that this phase is over. We presume that the 24 hour ‘ Irish CarBomb’ countdown has commenced. OB & LSA
That was me, too. I had to spend way too much effort explaining how the little bully got his face smashed in. It just wasn't worth the hassle.
indeed...
Evening Corin - Excellent!!! :-)
Heh, good one. Sometimes the oft-used ‘I don’t know’ doesn’t seem to cut it with parents and teachers.
Yep. Too bad fer Kiefer though. He don’t get out until Monday.
Well, after last season, that might not be so bad.
Yeah, I know. Maybe 60 days of being sober made him think “WTF was I doing?”
LOL!
It wasn't until Basic that I learned the handy phrase, "he fell down the steps".
you don't know how many Marines I knew what fell down a set of stairs at least once in their time in...
LOL!
Our #2 son was the type to just kind of orbit the playground; he wasn't interested in sports, or the other kids, for that matter. When he was in third grade, we moved him to a different school, one that was supposed to allow him to move up in his studies as he mastered the level below, not waiting on the other kids. There was a bully in his class who had already run off one kid before Christmas. Then he turned his attentions to our son. David tried to avoid the kid, but he'd come up and push him down, or just bash up against him. I kept telling him to tell the teachers, but it didn't seem to help. So I told him that I didn't want him to start any fights, but it was OK to defend himself if the kid hit him again.
One day, our son decked him. When I went to pick David up that day, the Headmaster called me in, complaining that our son had been fighting. When he told me the circumstances, I told him that David had been complaining to his teacher for weeks. I asked him, "What do you do when one kid is bullying another one?" He said, "We try to let them work it out." I said, "Well, David worked it out, what's your problem?"
The kid never bothered David again. ;o)
heh heh... musta smoked his @$$ good...
I'm with you... "pro'lem solved... next!..."
I gave Jr. much the same instructions one time. Told the teacher, “he’s got my permission to hit back.”
That seemed to take care of it.
that's sooooo un-pc of you...
told theboy after he got roughed up, "defend yerslf... if'n yuh don't wanna hit him, get him in a hold an' squeeze until his head comes clean off..."
PC is crap. Sometimes the bullies just have to get what’s coming to them.
gee... I should have used /sarcasm in that post...
LOL, no sarcasm necessary.
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