Posted on 03/04/2014 8:26:45 AM PST by Impala64ssa
America's kids have been suspended for pretending that pencils were guns, but an Ohio school may have topped that. A 10-year-old student at a Columbus elementary school was handed a three-day suspension for making a finger gun and pretending to shoot a classmate. The suspension letter more formally referred to his weapon as a "level 2 lookalike firearm," reports the Columbus Dispatch. Devonshire Alternative Elementary School's principal says students have been frequently told not to play pretend gun games, with a district rep saying kids were warned consequences would follow.
Those consequences hit hard last week for fifth-grader Nathan Entingh, who says he was "just playing around"; the rep said Nathan pretended to shoot another student "kind of execution style" in the head. And the "victim" didn't even see the mock execution, which was instead spotted by a teacher. Nathan's dad seems dumbfounded: "It would even make more sense maybe if he brought a plastic gun that looked like a real gun or something, but it was his finger." (Almost exactly a year ago, a Georgia teacher was suspended over a finger gun of his own.)
Not at all.
Were it not for certain hermit crab resembling critters in story, it wouldn’t have popped to mind at all.
Never had 'em with garlic. Butter yes, cheese yes, garlic no. And its not something that is on the menu in these parts... ;-)
some of my ancestors came over on the Mayflower!
Interesting.. My Grandmother (Paternal) always said her ancestors were on the Mayflower. Nobody could establish that link but it seems that Mrs. NoC while digging through the skeletons in the family closet has been able to do so. I'd need to get details from her. My Father's side of the family is extremely difficult to trace for some reason...
My Mother spent a lot of her retired years shaking the family tree to see what fell out, or off. Dad would ask her if she found any new horse thieves... She hit a dead end on the Mayflower link, but then, Mom didn't have access to Ancestry.com either. I think that tool was what enabled Mrs. NoC to finally draw the connection. And on another note, I see your state's resident corrupt slimeball makes news again. Not that you or anyone else for that matter would be surprised.
I would never write a story about a creature like a hermit crab, inhabiting the shell of another creature — except for the story I just wrote.
Timmy, the remarkable boy who could walk through walls, discovered he could lodge his phantasm-like spirit inside that of one of his friends.
Kinda hermit crab-like, idn’t it?
Well, the silicon bugs only resemble hermit crabs in as far as legs, claws, face, eyes, antenna.
Shell?
Nope, they have plate silicon carapace.
Which might explain their aggression.
Silicon gets interesting when you infuse nitrogen, boron, or carbon into it.
Silicon nitride is a hard dark ceramic used to make near unbreakable ball bearings.
Silly carby?
You could try to sell the goop that results but you'd probably get sued by Owens-Corning. Especially if you called it Pyrex...
Pyrex, hmmm.
Makes nice telescope mirrors.
Nope, it’s the distinctive white flashes on his wings.
Buckeye Brownies sound good! Where’d you get the recipe?
We're making progress here. Chainsaw has a mouthful of teeth, is eating mushy food, and this communication is s/p first feeding. Ahh, sleep.
Please excuse my ignorance: what’s a ggro evening? After having slept on it, I still can’t figure it. Gorg? Grog? Gyro?
Good morning. I’d have beat you, but I had to go upstairs for a few minutes. I stayed up too late, and then I dreamed of church politics. Unnngh.
Glad to hear Chainsaw is maturing, although teeth bring their own set of new issues.
Ah, thank you!
You’re welcome!
69 and rainy today, the weatherguessers say. The brown dress or the black skirt again ...
It's rainy here, too, but that's nothing unusual. I'm wearing the blue bathrobe and a St. Patrick's day T-shirt with a hole in it. It came with a sparkly green bowtie but I'm saving that for formal occasions.
Stuning!
Walmart has St. Patrick’s Day t-shirts on clearance, but I didn’t see any I really liked.
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