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What Did Dad Act Like When He Was In High School?
Little Red-Headed Schoolteacher
High School Vs College
Bored? JOKES!
What Did Dad Act Like When He Was In High School?
Author: W. Bruce Cameron
Office of the Principal
Dear Mr. Cameron: As a courtesy, we are sending you a copy of
this letter we recently wrote your 15 year old daughter in
response to a query we received from her.
Dear Ms. Cameron.
Thank you for your letter. Yes, we are pleased to report, your
father's old high school is still standing and our library was
able to find yearbooks dating "all the way back" to his
graduation. In fact, a few teachers even remember your father,
which I will get to in a moment.
In answer to your first question: in every picture extant of
your father he is well shod, wearing what I believe were called
"earth shoes" back then. Also, the weather here is moderate,
with snow generally lasting from December until March--hardly the
entire school year. Thus his descriptions of the conditions
under which he "struggled" to school in the morning do, as you
suggested, seem a bit exaggerated. In fact, our bus logs are
(remarkably) still intact, revealing that not only was your
father a registered passenger, but that his parents paid the
extra ten dollars a month for door-to-door delivery.
I am sure there were days when your father was very "sharply
dressed," as you state he puts it, but in every single photograph
I was able to uncover he is wearing exactly the same thing: bell
bottom blue jeans with white strings trailing from the edges onto
the floor, horizontal rents in the knees, and no belt buckle.
His T-shirt displays a message easily communicated with hand
gestures. His hair hangs past his shoulders and looks as if it
was exposed to a lot of wind - perhaps he rode the school bus
with the window open.
As to academics and "concentrating on the basics," one must
remember the times: the "basics" back then may very well have
embraced some of your father's elective subjects, which included
"Personal Citizenship," "Ecology," and one which apparently was
called "Relevance." We have no record of what, if anything, was
taught in these classes. What records we do have show that your
father did indeed take Geometry, just as he claims. In fact, he
took it his sophomore year, repeated it his junior year, and
repeated the course again his senior year - Geometry was required
for graduation.
Now as to Mr. Muggins, who had your father in a class called
"Problems of Modern Relationships." Mr. Muggins does not wish to
dispute the claim that your father always had his homework done
early, he merely wants to point out that no matter when it was
done, it was always handed in late. In fact, your father sticks
out in Mr. Muggins's mind as having the most outrageous excuses
for being unprepared, including having to evacuate his home
because it was infected with the China Syndrome.
Your father was not, sad to say, President of the Student
Council. Perhaps he is confusing student government with a
social group called "The Slackers," which Mr. Muggins recalls was
a group of boys who sat in the hallway and made loud groaning
noises whenever an attractive girl strode past. Your father was
assistant vice president of the club, and, to our knowledge, is
the only past member not currently serving time in a federal
penitentiary.
One thing IS completely verifiable: your father's name is,
indeed, carved above the door to the school. Please advise that,
now that we have noticed it, we will need to have it sanded out
and refinished, at a cost of approximately three hundred dollars.
We would appreciate it if your father would agree to pay for the
damage without having to engage lawyers. The honor roll to which
he apparently referred is not above the door, it hangs outside my
office. I will leave unanswered the question as to whether his
name is upon it.
Thank you very much for your letter, which we found most amusing.
Be sure to tell your father hello from Mr. Muggins.
More jokes by this author: http://www.wbrucecameron.com/
Little Red-Headed Schoolteacher
A travelling salesman finds himself stranded in the tiniest town
in Australia. He knocks on the door of a little hotel. "Sorry, we
don't have a spare room," says the manager, "but you're welcome
to share with a little red-headed schoolteacher, if that's okay."
"Oh, that'll be great," says the salesman, grinning from ear to
ear. "And don't worry, I'll be a real gentleman."
"Just as well," says the manager. "So will the little red-headed
schoolteacher."
High School Vs College
1. In high school, you do homework. In college, you study.
2. No food is allowed in the hall in high school. In college,
food must be provided at an event before students will come.
3. In high school, you wear your backpack on one shoulder; in
college, on both.
4. In college, the professors can tell you the answer without
looking at the teacher's guide.
5. In college, there are no bells or tardy slips.
6. In high school, you have to live with your parents. In
college, you get to live with your friends.
7. In college, you don't have to wait in a certain lunch line to
be cool.
8. Only nerds e-mailed in high school. (Cool kids hadn't heard of
it.)
9. In high school, you're told what classes to take. In college,
you get to choose; that is, as long as the classes don't
conflict, you have the prerequisites, the classes aren't closed,
and you've paid your tuition.
10.In high school, if you screw up, you can usually sweet-talk
your way out of it. In college, you're lucky to ever talk with
the professor.
11. In high school, fire drills are planned by the
administration; in college, by the drunk frat boys on their way
home when the bars close.
12. In college, any test consists of a larger percentage of your
grade than your high school final exams ever did.
13. In high school, when the teacher said, "Good morning," you
mumbled back. In college, when the professor says, "Good
morning," you write it down.
14. In high school, freshman guys hit on senior girls. In
college, senior guys hit on freshman girls.
15. In college, weekends start on Thursday.
16. In college, it's much more difficult to figure out the course
schedule of the man/woman you have a crush on in order to figure
out where he/she will be walking around campus and at what time
to find them there.
17. Once you've obtained the information described in #16, it's
much more time-consuming to run between classes to that place
where you know he/she will be in order to "just happen to bump
into him/her."
18. In college, there's no one to tell you not to eat pizza three
meals a day.
19. In college, your dad doesn't pay for dates.
20. In high school, it never took 3 or 4 weeks to get money from
Mom and Dad.
21. College men are cuter than high school boys.
22. College women are legal.
23. In college, when you miss a class (or two or three), you
don't need a note from your parents saying you were skip....uh,
sick that day.
24. In high school, you can't go out to lunch because it's not
allowed. In college, you can't go out to lunch because you can't
afford it.
25. In college, you can blow off studying by writing lists like
this.
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