Great Googly Moogly, the guy is a complete loon!
OMG! black455, tell me that’s a joke site and he’s not serious! Please tell me that’s a joke!
If I could be so lucky… he’s taken a faculty position at my school (UCLA).
Okay, I’ve got to ask. What denotes “old-style” dodgeball? Is there a new-style dodgeball?
The kind we played was where the majority of players got in a group/circle and the ‘shooters’ stood outside the group and tried to hit them with the ball. I used to like that game as a kid on the playground. I am not and never was overly athletic and as a fat kid I was never the winner (last to get hit) but I thought it was fun.
Is ther per-chance a misfortunate dodgeball story in your past?
Guano, perchance art thou a fan of Liberty Meadows? 
Those people who come up and ask you, “Are you all right?” in that high-pitched, fake-concerned voice while you are lying on the ground, stunned, breath knocked out, and maybe in some degree of pain between ‘omigod, I’m gonna die right here’, and ‘wwwaaHOUCH!’
Anyone who gossips about nasty stuff, particularly in the office. I don’t watch daytime TV - why would I want to hear this sort of junk live?
Any person who tries, even in fun, to press an alcoholic drink on anybody. Lighten up, the women know you’re just trying to get them drunk because it’s the only way you have any dream of ‘scoring’… and the men don’t like your obnoxious ways, any more than the women.
That is all I have so far, on my better off gone away list.
I sympathize with you working folk. I can’t imagine lasting more than 10 minutes anywhere I had to put up with those sorts of shites inhaling my oxygen and exhaling smarm and platitudes (and plongitudes?) at me.
One thing though…
I haven’t seen Oprah for a long time, but I have to give her kudos for starting her book club. Probably little if anything I would want to read, but,face it, she carries a lot of weight (Yeah, I know) and has influenced many people to give up some of their soap time to reading. Not a bad thing.
Thou dost profane the sacred Steve!
Avast ye foul varlet!
Crunchy and GuanoLad:
No joke.
Actually, I’m a PE teacher myself. And I was good at dodgeball too. But I’m sympathetic to those who were/are not. By “old style” I mean using heavy rubber playground balls - the kind that leave welts. Although as a teacher I avoid most games that involve “human targets”, I feel it is an OK activity if you use fluff balls or something really soft. Even so, there isn’t a whole lot of educational value to the game as it is traditionally played.
Was that more info than you wanted?
This girl who is in two of my classes, back to back, and that I have invited to my birthday party ONLY because I invited her boyfriend and otherwise she would whine about how cruel I am and how I don’t care about anybody else but myself and how I play with people’s emotions like they were puppets. That’s not the only reason why she gets on my nerves. She’s naive and she sees the world through Pollyanna Glasses (I like to say she lives in a “Hallmarkian world” with the green hills and bunny rabbits like on those cards. Anytime I’m cynical and/or sarcastic around her, she makes my comments to sound like I’m Hitler or something.
From,
Anake (changed the user name)
*Originally posted by Jonathan Chance *
[croc hunter]
Aw, farck, that crarck’s bit me yand orf.
[/croc hunter]
*Originally posted by Grok *
I figured it was gonna be some PC crap like this. C’mon, give me the old days, when school was about competition instead of self esteem and blunt trauma to the head was just a way of eliminating the teacher’s pet.
Shintaro Ishihara, governor of Tokyo.
An ignorant, racist little putz who rode to power on the fame of his actor brother (the late Yujiro Ishihara). Believes (or at least has publicly stated) that the Rape of Nanking never happened, WWII was started by the Americans, and that the first duty of the military in the event of a major earthquake in Tokyo should be to start rounding up all the Chinese, Taiwanese and Koreans ('cos they’re all criminals who will start rampaging and looting).
–sublight.
Interestingly, my spellchecker doesn’t recognize, “putz”.
William Shatner
I guess I never got a welt from it so I’ve never thought of it on those terms. We used the rubber balls but not the kind that were hard; those were for kickball. We used the kind that had ‘give’ to them.
Sure, there wasn’t a lot of educational value to dodgeball, but personally I’d have rather played that than did push ups, sit ups, and been sent on forced runs during PE. Just a personal preference. I’ve always found exercise for the sake of excercise (running, walking, etc) mind-numbingly boring. Of course my current sorry physical shape bears the results of that today.
I never thought of the game as a “human target” type of thing. It was just fun to me.
radio station program managers and/or whoever selects the playlists.
The New York Yankees. Particularly Derek Jeter.
My coworker who keeps requesting (and getting) expensive equipment she doesn’t know how to use (and wouldn’t use if she did) but feels she needs because other people in the office have it and she wants to feel important.
People who snore in public.
People who wail rather than sing (e.g. Whitney Houston).
My husband’s friend who doesn’t understand the laws of conversation. Namely, that it ain’t about how much stuff you have and how great you are.
And, as I mentioned in the grammar thread, people who misuse apostrophes. And commas.
Former President Clinton
That stupid clown on the Jack in the Box ads