From: saiki@mpg.phys.hawaii.edu (L. Saiki)
Subject: Re: schools re: Old Coots Test
Organization: University of Hawaii, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 23:09:33 GMT

Spacey mumbles:
>>The teachers at my high school used to label us by our class - Freshman 
>>[or as one I-want-to-kill-her teacher always said: Frosh] <agonized

The Mighty and Powerful Sea Wasp comments:
>	"Was it just your teacher who said that? Frosh was the standard
>term used by students where I came from -- especially by anyone who
>wasn't frosh."

"I hated it when I was a Freshman, and hated it when people said it 
when I wasn't one.  There was something about FROSH that really 
bothered me...which was probably the reason why non-Freshman were
called that, huh?!"  <giggle>

>>scream>, Sophomore [the same <scream> English teacher always said:
>>sophOmore], 

>	"Well, how else WOULD you say it? (Aside from the way *I* 
>always pronounced it: suffer-more..."

"I say it "sophmore" and always spelled it correctly.  Back then I was
a wiz at spelling.  Now, I think I need pronounciation hints to get
by.  A side comment here...I used to really good at writing stuff when
I was in high school.  I was still quite good when I entered the 
University but as soon as I stopped reading REAL books and skimmed
through Physics/science texts my writing gradually worstened along
with my spelling...although miniscule, I took pride in being the 
best at spelling."  <sad grin and a sigh>  Spacey takes a sip from
her ginger ale because the long-windedness of her reply dried out
her throat and mouth.

>>Grinning nostalgically she is reminiscing back to the days she skipped 
>>school to go out to really nice restaurants, that have since disappeared, 
>>with her friends.

>	"SKIPPED SCHOOL???? 
>	"In HIGH SCHOOL? I mean, if you meant in college, okay,
>I can see that, but how did anyone have enough money in high school
>to afford to go to a nice restaurant... and how could you get OUT
>of the school in the first place?"

"Ah, yes.  I did the same in college.  Especially since there was no
truancy laws to stop me from leaving classes in college.  In my first 
three years of college, if you wanted to locate me you'd go to the
arcade that was 10 minutes from campus or the pizza parlor 13 minutes
away."

"As for high school, I did get caught once for truancy.  That was 
because I was sitting around with my friends off-campus.  Stupid!!
and boring too."  

"We had a very nice shopping mall near the school, so all we did
was walk/drive off campus and go to one of the restaurants and eat 
there.  All of us could - somehow - afford it.  It wasn't so bad 
really since lunches would go for 5-10 dollars a person which was 
within range of our allowances...but if I wanted to buy records, I
would have to lay off the fun stuff for a while since I go 
berserk when it came to buying imported underground records..."

"Oh, and if one of us was short then we would split the cost up and 
get paid back the next time around."

"I do regret not going to the country club near our school.  Our 
high school was across the Waialae Country Club/Kahala Hilton, where
they play the Hawaiian Open golf tournament.  I heard that the food
there was okay.  I suppose being punks then, we wouldn't have been
caught dead in a snooty country club.  Times have changed!  When
I was on the Big Island [Hawaii], I ate at a country club on a regular 
basis.  Reason being that we didn't want to go to the other 
restaurants nearby."  <grin>

"Hypocrisy." <laugh>

"Hey Seawasp, what did you do in high school?"


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