Really?
Yes, Shibb, really; however, now that I’m making the big bucks, I don’t always proofread every post. If you’d like, though, I’d be happy to take a little time to redline your 3227 posts. :rolleyes:
Ziatrice, “bitch” is a perfectly acceptable Anglo-Saxon word, and I can think of no other that so succinctly describes the profession of sales.
How 'bout pisser?
Had an Algebra teacher in HS that would make the students stand at the black board and “cipher” the problems while he would stand next to you and punch you in the arm until you got it right.
Did I mention that he was the football coach?
OUCH
If he makes good on it, let us all know.
Reminds me of a Simpson’s quote:
Lisa: “Mom, is Dad going to kill us?”
Marge: “Well, we’ll just have to wait and see.”
Wow. Your teacher must be really anal about organization.
At the beginning of this year, one of my English teachers said if he didn’t memorize our names by week 8, we could spank him in public. I’ve been secretly hoping he’d forget our names just to witness a public spanking. Teachers are just odd like that.
I’d only kill you if you plagiarized. Anything else, I can handle.
–Professor V
Topic sentences are very important. They are important for many reasons. Without a topic sentence, people would not know what the paragraph was about. Then they would be confused and that is not good. That is why topic sentences are very important.
And drink your own urine! 
Quasi
First time I was ever on the recieving end of a dislocated shoulder was when I failed to make sure my MLA format paper for a creative writing class was 1" all around.
Needless to say I double checked my MLA format templates after that.
He didn’t say he’d kill you, it’s worth pointing out.
He just said you’d die.
So he’s just pointing out the truth.
‘If you don’t write topic sentences… you will die.’
Even if you die at 120 it will happen. 
Perfectly acceptable, you say? :mad: So you’d use that word to your mother, to young girls, your former students in the classroom, your adminstrators? How interesting.
I think the point was, you consider it a perfectly acceptable word. I consider it less than gentlemanly to use in mixed company. However, given that I have never had to be a sales droid, only work with several, I can and do see your point.
I just wish you could make it without using cusswords that aren’t nice for me to keep hearing. However, don’t try and tell me what is perfectly acceptable. I recognize no authority on your part to give you such a privilege, and for manners as I’ve been taught them (and I see commonly accepted), that word applies only to dogs.
Boy, Ziatrice, you don’t have to be such a…no, never mind. It’s too easy.
Where’s 'punha when we need him?
In fact, I would, and have in certain situations, though rarely in a pejorative manner. The informal setting of the SDMB, I think, makes it alright. Don’t visit the pit, though. You might have a stroke.
You know, when I was teaching semiotics to my students, I’d write the C-word on the board three feet high. I’d then say it aloud several times. The point of this was to show that the power of a sign (word, image, whatever) resides in the receiver rather than the transmitter. And in reference to my first point, context and setting matter as well. Hearing that word from a professor caused many of the students to give that particular set of sounds more power than, say, if they’d heard it in the frat house (or should I say fraternity–you wouldn’t call your country a…). But, they are the ones who gave it the power to offend, not me.
Not to mention that common usage, which the American Heritage version follows claims that my particular usage, “something very unpleasant or difficult,” is slang; it is only labeled offensive when applied to people. Princeton’s WordNet gives “an unpleasant difficulty” number one status, and again labels it as slang.
Then again, I don’t know why I’m letting your signs have enough power for me to respond at such length.
Try teaching MLA and topic sentences to history students… we just want to get to the blood and gore:D
and dates… lots of dates… teachers rarely check to make they are totally correct…
Try business majors. Male business majors. “Why do I need to know this. I’m going to have a secretary.”
Uh-huh. Sure. Lower- to middle-management types always get someone from the steno pool to help them out. Not to mention, chances are if you do, he or she will be the person who you’re distracting by flirting instead of paying attention to class. Anyone see “Murphy Brown?”
Go straight to County District Attorney. Do not stop, do not Pass Go, do not schedule touchy feely exploratory talk with Head of Math Department.
That about sums up my attitude about any adult who punches my child, in ANY context, in ANY classroom, ever in their lives.
Woe to them. I was hit by teachers in Elementary School.
Woe to them now. :mad:
Cartooniverse
Damn good paragraph!
May I share this with the group (colleagues) ?
By all means, knock yourself out, vivalostwages.
My previous sentence, by the way, having not been part of a group, can’t be considered a topic sentence for any paragraph. So my suggestion to knock yourself out shouldn’t be taken literally. I wouldn’t want lack of context to be the grounds for any impending assault and battery charges you make against yourself.
Would that be like having swatches flying every which way as you redecorated rooms in your house at such a torrid pace that you were a (fabulous, dahling;)) colorful blur?