Starving Artist,
Sorry I came off as a sarcastic nit. As to the type of French class, I really don’t know what types there are. We had homework, we corrected it, read things, wrote things, did skits, and had the odd project thrown in every once in a while. Probably to keep us busy and to make Teach’s life easier.
And the sarcasm was influenced by my lack of respect for my ex-French teacher, who would go off on tangents about her shoe shopping experiences while students asked about the grammatical errors in their homework…
And you were screwed if you couldn’t paint. Maybe not grade-wise, but your peers woiuld still laugh at your crappy painting for the next three weeks.
Don’t even remind me about that series. It was bad enough that game 7 of the '91 series was the first “ESPN memory” done. I had to turn the television off every time they showed that “highlight”.
My father had a nervous breakdown of sorts after the season ended. He didn’t believe me when, in June, I said they’d finish ahead of the Dodgers (I had youthful exuberance to beat his “How are they going to finish ahead of the Dodgers?”). He didn’t expect them to outlast the Pirates in the NLCS, and he definitely didn’t expect them to make a respectable showing in the series. He wasn’t accustomed to caring so much about any sport (or much of anything beyond his family) for that long a period of time.
Shibb, here’s how you hoist a kid up “by the ears” (note to any lookers-on: you do not actually use the kid’s ears. You can even do it without touching their ears, though that tends to raise the occasional suspicion):
Make sure said kid can lift him/herself up.
Have 'em grab onto your wrists/arms and tense their body up (the relevant parts, anyway, and most definitely the arms)
Put your hands on their ears and lift up, being careful not to grab their ears hard, but making sure they feel your hands on their ears.
They think (as far as I have ever been able to tell) that they are being lifted up by their ears. It’s a trick I learned about 8 years ago and one I’ve sinced used a number of times.
I haven’t been to Florida (furthest south I’ve been is SC) before. No current plans to go. fizzy and I are hoping to make it out for JC’s party in August, though; if we’re both there I’ll make it a point to hoist 'em by 'eir ears.
I know how to do it, it’s just not the same if it’s not Patrick. Prehistoric Patrick is a version of the Spongebob character that they show every now and again. Both Spongebob and Patrick are brutes. I don’t know how they work it into the storyline, but it is Spongebob, so I don’t think the how is all that important.
