Trompetron Brings the Hammer

[aspara]

So, as y’all know, last night Annie covered the Mock Trial practice for me while I was at the library. Today I got what I chose to interpret as a rather disturbing email from Annie:

Hey Pat

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[bugboy3001]

Good work laying the smackdown on the kids. Good work with the silences especially; those are ... impactful. (Which is not a word.) I can't imagine what dealing with kids of that age is like: the dick references are particularly puzzling. What are they talkin' 'bout? Sounds like you handled it well; we'll see what Annie has to say about her next session with them.

How's the paper going?

[aspara]

The paper is going very, very slowly. It is making me want to end my own life.

[alfpogs]

Bravo, bravo. High school kids frequently need to be reminded they're not as hot as the think, and that they do not rule the world... nor can they get away with anything they wish (I know since I'm fresh outta there.)
I too am puzzled by the "cock pact." What the...?
In all honesty, you remind me a lot of the mock trial coach at my high school. Perhaps it's a mock trial "thing."

Wow, your school had a cool mock trial coach

[aspara]

What's the "thing"? Brash, loud, fun, irreverent, theatrical when the opportunity arises, and with a penchant for hearing ourselves talk? Yeah--that's a young litigator thing.

Re: Wow, your school had a cool mock trial coach

[alfpogs]

That sounds JUST like him. Especially, "with a penchant for hearing ourselves talk", although so as to give him his deserved props I should also mention he was very sarcastic and fun. He coached our unstoppable Academic Decathalon team, also. You should tap that resource also and become Super Coach.

The Cock Pact

[aspara]

You guys wouldn't believe how much time those kids spend discussing male genitalia-teasing each other about the inferiority of each others units, calling each other names, etc. On Monday, as I recall, there was a heated exchange that was decisively ended by David’s parting shot: “Because, Arthur, I don’t like huge cocks.” I wish I could remember the rest of the exchange now: as I recall it was something about Arthur's mom.

Re: The Cock Pact

[alfpogs]

Hmm. Is it just those two, or the male students as a whole?
Perhaps this isn't relevant, but my senior year in high school I was the teacher's aide in a Spanish 3 class filled with mostly Freshman and Sophomores. I noticed a group of those boys were incredibly open with their sexuality. They'd frequently hold hands with each other before class and make discussion on the male genitalia (like your kids.) The thing is, they'd hold their girlfriends' hands at the same time as holding each others'... soooo... Very comfortable, I suppose.

Re: The Cock Pact

[aspara]

It's Arthur and David who do most of the cock talk, though Sam isn't much better. Shaffer should be a good worker, and was, but his classmates have corrupted him something awful. The girls on the B team are pretty functional, but there's this one on the A team who can't manage to keep her pants up, and, generally speaking, the word douche gets tossed about with surprising regularity.

[steeleagle16]

I just thought I'd drop buy and tell you that my icon kicks your icon's ass now. I mean, just look at yours -- it's black and white. MONOCHROME. Mine's in a light sepia. And not only that, but mine has evil text on it. That's right bitch, ::gangster-wannabe accent:: you had better recognize, dawg, and back off my kool aid before I bomb on your ass. ::gang symbols:: (I picked some of this up from when Christine and I attended high school in the middle of our city's "ghetto," as it is often called by the locals

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[alfpogs]

You look scarier than usual.

I remember you attempting to befriend the local gangstas in the parking lot at school... and then receiving a severe ass beating. You should've known they don't accept Spaniards or snowflakes (in my case) into their clubs. At least I was made one of them by honor. Fuck yea, mah nizzle. I got me a 'gatah wit twankies, naw? I learned all this slang at our beloved magnet high school! ET KILLAZ ROCK DA HOUSE!

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[steeleagle16]

Hey, I never got my ass beat in high school. You must be getting it confused with some other tall, handsome guy. I was untouchable in high school. My supa-fly black belt martial arts skills enabled me to take on up to three gangstaz at a time (four if they had no weapons) in hand-to-hand combat. It never happened because I was a nice guy even to people who should've had their faces smashed in, but I could've done it if necessary.

I stepped on yo ass, snowflake. Y'all best step off or I'm gon' bomb on y'all nigga like da po-pos on Rodney King.

Just for the record, I wrote an entry back in December on how an African-American vertically-challenged man gave me license to say the words, "nigga," (or any variation thereof with the exception of the suffix "-er"), and, "midget."

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[steeleagle16]

We should stop this discussion right now. I mentioned earlier that quarreling with rednecks isn't fun anymore!

[domestique]

i too love using various forms of punctuation; and i love the semicolon:)