Mine had an electronics/electricity shop. Same teacher did one semester for electronics and one semester for electricity – how to correctly wire outlets and stuff. One project for the electricity class had each student draw wiring diagrams for their every room in their home; I did mine to scale. Pretty sure the teacher had never seen that before!
We didn’t have a winning football team, either.
My high school had a wood shop (took it) and a welding class that also had metal lathes and such. Even had a overhead mill. No electronics though.
I did learn how to weld pretty well, though one time I did start my self on fire. Rest of the day was spent with soggy shoe and wet pants.
Maybe we should have a separate thread on how awesome our high schools were…?
I never understood why people ever fell for that “ZOMG! He’s a flip flopper!” shit.
Indeed, people can be consistently wrong.
I think to have an actual archery team like that would be a pretty small group of schools. I’d think most people had what I had, a couple of weeks where you shared a dozen or so old, poorly strung bows and took turns trying to hit a big round target 30 feet away. Most bows I saw were so poorly strung you had to aim 2 feet above the target to actually get enough loft to make that far. Unfortunately, I never got to witness any injuries, not even of the ever popular “you’ll put an eye out with that thing!” variety.
Darn, that was my plan as a teacher: pick an obscure sport that no other school does, start a team, be “the fun coach”. And sweep the state championship… that we organize, but it’s really just a scrimmage (“Annnd, in the Junior Varsity Calvinball category, Pech forfeits agaaaain!”)
I retired without much notice, and never got to fulfill my diabolical plan. Maybe for the better, I may have gotten in trouble (due to the fact that we would’ve ended up making Calvinball a drinking game).
We were doing an archery class on our school oval. Past the target was the school boundary fence and then a creek lined with trees and scrub.
From behind the targets appeared a hapless scrub turkey. Mysteriously, everybody’s arrows suddenly started missing the top of the target and sailing towards the turkey. Luckily no one hit it.
The teacher was furious. No one owned up and there was nothing she could do.
Just gotta point out that when I happen to see this thread title rise to the Top o’ the Pit, my first reaction is “Did Al insult another lady with fat feet?”
I saw almost none of that show, but I happened to stumble upon Al’s worst line: when Peg accused him of cheating on her, he said, “why would I go out for milk when I have a cow at home?”
She could’ve made them shag all the arrows…
You’re clearly working off a definition of “shag” with which I am unfamiliar.
I know this usage primarily in the context of baseball/softball…
Definition of shag (Entry 5 of 7)
1a : to chase afterespecially : to chase after and return (a ball) hit usually out of play
b : to catch (a fly) in baseball practice
Well, we had to do that anyway, so it wouldn’t have been a punishment.
I had to look it up. The definition with which I was already familiar would have made @kaylasdad99’s comment a little… interesting.
Sheep, chicken, arrows?
Guess what idiot is back in the news?
learning curve
My favorite part of this article comes after they describe wheeling Bundy out of the building in a cart.
“The cart, which looks somewhat like an oversized jogging stroller, was purchased in the past few months specifically so officers could transport uncooperative people during arrests.”
So, Idaho had to go out and buy an oversized stroller because of the whiny grown-up babies that come to the statehouse to throw tantrums.
I hope the cart is totally ridiculous looking, and if it isn’t someone needs to get on that, right away. Heck, I’d volunteer! Decorate it like a kiddie stroller, paint pink and blue bunny rabbits on it, attach a baby bottle and some rattles to the frame. And ruffles, lots of lacy ruffles. Then, the next time a Bundy shows up, throw him in the Bundy baby stroller and jog it around the building a few times before loading him into the police car. We deserve to get some good video just for listening to this nonsense.
It’s a bit hard to see, but I love this lady yelling at him at the end of the video:
I took this video of what I’m prettty sure is Ammon Bundy getting arrested. Go to the end for my heckling. pic.twitter.com/rYLk7bQCTX
— Emily Walton, Mask Wearer (@Walton_Emily) April 8, 2021
You can hear Ammon spouting his sovcit bullshit. That guy is a broken record. Shut the fuck up!
That would be sweet.
I fucking love how this thread keeps on giving. Since Jan 2016th, the Bundy’s keep providing material.