Hmmmm .... in the school at which I taught, playing the clarinet was
minimally acceptable, singing in the choir was (if male)
automatically classified as an all gay activity, and playing any
sport was an instant ticket to the adulation of 90%of your peers.
Unfortunately, I was the choral director.
Dean
On May 26, 2007, at 10:35 AM, Christopher Smith wrote:
On 26-May-07, at 1:04 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 26 May 2007 at 12:41, Andrew Stiller wrote:
I cannot, for example, imagine any
American boy nowadays being denounced as a "fairy" because he played
the clarinet.
You must live in an entirely different world than *I* live in!
Not me!
In my high school, the best male musicians in the band were the
cool ones with the cute girlfriends, while the guys on the
perpetually-losing basketball team were the dummies with
girlfriends who didn't look as if they washed often enough. Guess
which one I chose to go to after school? 8-)
(not that it helped my girlfriend situation at all, but I had the
ILLUSION that the band would help my success with the ladies, which
was the point that Andrew was making, I think.)
Christopher
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Of all hoaxes, the one which is my most vexing bête noire on a
quotidian basis, is the cereal box top which informs simply,
"Lift Tab to Open." Then, "To Close, Insert Tab Here ." Yeah,
right! In attempting to accomplish the first direction, not only
the tab but also the slit intended to accept the aforementioned
protuberance have both been irreparably disfigured and rendered
dysfunctional. This debacle is then amplified by the misbehavior
of the recalcitrant inner bag, which can not be unsealed sans
mangling it, and hence, will not disperse its contents without
exiting the box itself. All I wanted was a bowl of cereal.
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