More like Ellen McNeil to Angela Jones in this case, but still largely inexplicable by me.
At the Duke women’s volleyball game at BYU, one BYU fan used the n word every time the only black Duke player served. He also yelled that she needed to watch her back going to the bus. He got kicked out and banned from further BYU athletic events (he isn’t a student),but I wonder just how common this is at BYU.
It was this part I wanted to point out. Being Texas, maybe “P.J.” is the Principal’s actual first name, as is"Jeff" and “Zach”. Or maybe they were given names from a grandfather, but they were never liked to be called Phinnegan Jackson, Geoffrey, and Zachariah.
The school rule can go both ways.
Agreed.
Or Pyjama Smith.
I’m kinda partial to Praise-God Barebone.
I was a copy editor on my college newspaper. One day the three of us copy editors were talking about our favorite words and the lead editor said he thought Wombat Druthers would be a fine name for one of his future children. Yes, of course he was kidding.
I had a third grade teacher who didn’t believe in nicknames. I was Richard, even though I’ve always been Rick since I was eight.
My mistake. This is from Grand Island, Nebraska. Going to the school website to confirm the state, the Principal is “Paul (PJ) Smith”. Kind of a let down.
I know a female teacher with the last name of Malehorn. She must have a thick skin.
I read this on one of those time-wasting Facebook links yesterday:
In high school math class, there was this nice, nerdy guy named Richard. The jerk of the class, let’s call him John, keeps calling Richard “Dick.” Like, “Hey, Dick, did you get the answer to #4?” Richard keeps calmly saying “It’s Richard.” Finally, the teacher says, “Richard, what do you prefer to be called?”
Richard says, “I prefer Richard.” John says, “Well, I prefer Dick.” After a few seconds of uproarious laughter from the rest of the class, John realized what he said and sunk as far down into his seat as possible and never bugged Richard again.
I don’t think this calls for much comment.
My Wife helped with bus tours in Alaska for a bit. Had to do roll call to make sure no one was forgotten.
One poor girls last name was “Maryme”
- A Nebraska man hired by a charity to simulate a mass shooting was charged with terroristic threats.
- The Omaha World-Herald reported John Channels was advised to make the drill realistic.
- The simulation caused chaos among employees who thought the drill was real.
“Please Don’t Feed The Animals”
We’ve simulated mass shootings at my workplace before. We get trained ahead of time in what to do, and we are warned ahead of time that the drill will happen on a particular date, but we don’t know exactly when. We have a silent alarm (lights start flashing) to let us know that it’s in progress (the same lights that would happen with a real incident). We are then supposed to follow our training, which generally consists of either getting out of there or barricading somewhere as safe as we can (whichever you can do more quickly and safely).
To simulate shooting, the guy would walk around with an air horn and blow it at people. That’s enough, no need to make it more real. It was already something that got the fight-or-flight response going, even though you know intellectually that nothing is wrong, you feel that same “got to leave, got to hide” feeling. It wasn’t pleasant but wasn’t traumatic and was a good learning experience.
What the charity did was none of that. I think that there should be others charged in the incident. You can’t spring crap like that on people without warning, as the article said…
“It’s important to note that several of (the directors) went along with it, and while it was happening, they were not informing employees of what was going on, even as they were asking,” Wetzel said.
That’s bullshit. There should be conspiracy charges leveled at the organizers involved too. At the very least, you have a good basis for lawsuits.
There was a recent new story about the attempted abduction of a 6 year old girl, which was caught on camera. Much of the coverage was about how the child “did all the right things” by screaming and running away.
A commentator, in talking about the importance of teaching children to “do all the right things”, made the suggestion that parents should hire an adult not known to the child to attempt to kidnap them, just to make sure the child knew what do do. I was astounded at the stupidity.
Wasn’t that a storyline in Arrested Development?
LOL, you ninja’d me completely there. 
The first thing I thought of was the guy who kept “losing his arm” to teach the kids safety.
And then the fake drug bust.
The Federal Trade Commission is suing a company that is selling geodata about people visiting abortion clinics and other sensitive locations.