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  • Lounge, The Re: Parents holding children back in school

    Nate's right. The biggest problem we have as a daycare is parents expecting US to raise THEIR children. Like the mother complaining that we don't spend enough one-on-one time with ...

    Oct 20, 2006
  • Lounge, The Re: Parents holding children back in school

    I went to kindergarten at 4 1/2. They wanted me out of the preschool! I wasn't a terror, or anything. Just ready to move up. Some parents...

    Oct 20, 2006
  • Poetry Discussion Re: Disney Lyrics

    Hunckback...confused me. And terrified me. Frollo's 'desire' for Esmerelda was really icky. The music was incredible though. "God Help the Outcasts" is one of my all time favorite pieces. Have ...

    Oct 20, 2006
  • Lounge, The Re: Post Your Pic Here (4)

    Jack: You look almost EXACTLY like my cousin Vince. If your hair was curly, you could be twins.

    Oct 19, 2006
  • Lounge, The Re: Not It! Mass. Elementary School Bans Tag

    Schools are crazy anymore. I'm with Lama. My kids will attend a tag-friendly school.

    Oct 18, 2006
  • Randomosity Re: Shakespeare's Influence

    The English language owes a great debt to Shakespeare. He invented over 1700 of our common words by changing nouns into verbs, changing verbs into adjectives, connecting words never before ...

    Oct 17, 2006
  • Research Re: Last names/Surnames?

    Okay, a little bit from the OED: Surname comes from "sirename" or, the name of he who sired you. 1. A name, title, or epithet added to a person's name ...

    Oct 17, 2006
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: North Korea Tests Nuclear Device

    Then everyone ought to disarm, so none have that power.

    Oct 17, 2006
  • Randomosity Re: YWS INVADEZ RUSSKA

    I graciously accept, my lord. I thank you for your most generous proposal, and hope that I shall disappoint neither you, nor the Empire.

    Oct 17, 2006
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Jesus War Camp thing

    Just because the results of the events affect us does not mean that we are partaking in them directly. Unless you're making an active effort to avoid products produced by ...

    Oct 17, 2006
  • Research Archives Re: SUICIDE! How morbid.

    Exactly. Most people absolutely intent upon killing themselves will do it 'cleanly', so as not to be a bother to others. Women are more likely to be clean, and more ...

    Oct 16, 2006
  • Fiction Discussion Re: TTFN and TTYL by Lauren Myracle

    Its the age old problem, "Are children people?" That's what's so great about books like Ender's Game. Card treats his characters as PEOPLE, not as children. What Myracle doesn't seem ...

    Oct 16, 2006
  • Fiction Discussion Re: TTFN and TTYL by Lauren Myracle

    You...tried?? Yes, Claudette I agree with you. She may be fostering an interest in HER kind of literature, but at what cost? The minds of young women nation wide? She ...

    Oct 16, 2006
  • Fiction Discussion Re: TTFN and TTYL by Lauren Myracle

    Or we could have an adult discussion with her (ha!) on her choice of...medium for producing her...literature. Ouch. My brain. (Regarding the MySpace...she's like a pre-adolescent trapped inside a grow

    Oct 16, 2006
  • Fiction Discussion Re: TTFN and TTYL by Lauren Myracle

    It hurts me too, Claudette. It hurts me too. This summer, I actually confiscated one from a girl at my daycare. When her mother interrogated me about it, I showed ...

    Oct 16, 2006


The best speculative fiction peels your mind and shows you the familiar from a direction you have not looked in before
— Neil Gaiman