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Periodic table joke may cost teen her seat at graduation
New York Post ^ | 05/20/2014 | By Sophia Rosenbaum

Posted on 05/20/2014 2:36:23 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd

A Georgia high school student’s clever use of the periodic table may cost her a seat at graduation.

The senior class vice president used the names of elements in her yearbook quote that when abbreviated to their atomic symbol spell out, “Back that ass up.”

“When the going gets tough just remember to Barium, Carbon, Potassium, Thorium, Astatine, Arsenic, Sulfur, Uranium, Phosphorus,” Paris Gray wrote.

~snip~

School administrators, however, did not find the mash-up funny. They slapped her with an in-school suspension, barred her from participating in the annual senior walk and may even take away her privilege of speaking at graduation.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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To: Responsibility2nd

This is sad.

An attractive young black woman, intelligent enough to use the periodic table in a discreet enough way to get her hip and youthful message out.

She should be celebrated as the type of young person our schools should be turning out.

It is ironic in a way. We send young people to school to learn to be independent and gain the ability to live a fruitful life on their own. But at the last moment, the school must jump up and reestablish once and for all, that it is the master of all things teenaged.

Once a student has qualified for graduation, the school should stand back, congratulate themselves for a job well done and wish the students well as they enter their next phase of what will be the rest of their lives.


41 posted on 05/20/2014 3:03:58 PM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: pfflier

what was that for?


42 posted on 05/20/2014 3:05:49 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Verginius Rufus
Yes, what’s Utranium?

A close relative of Unobtanium.

43 posted on 05/20/2014 3:05:54 PM PDT by x
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To: petitfour

And who will see it 10 years from now. Good grief. If no figure it out till it was in the yearbook then forget about it. These administrators are Nitrogen, Uranium,Thallium, Sulfur. NUTLS.


44 posted on 05/20/2014 3:06:04 PM PDT by taterjay
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To: TADSLOS
Still, a stupid reason to pull an honor student off the stage.

Agreed. The translated version is very mildly crude. Worse is heard on "family" cartoons on prime time television.
45 posted on 05/20/2014 3:06:53 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("I'm a Contra" -- President Ronald Reagan)
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To: Slump Tester
In 74, my lab pardner and I spelled out FA-Q with components on a breadboard we were "working" on

Does it feel good getting that off your chest after all these years? You bad boy, lol.

46 posted on 05/20/2014 3:08:26 PM PDT by keat
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To: Responsibility2nd

I think it’s cute, but I have no idea what it’s supposed to mean.


47 posted on 05/20/2014 3:10:27 PM PDT by Tax-chick (You say I'm insane ... I say you're afraid.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
I fail to see anything about her coded message to get all worked up about. These administrations have a complete lack of humor over something that's not particularly funny or 'mean spirited'.
48 posted on 05/20/2014 3:13:40 PM PDT by Vinylly (?%)
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To: TADSLOS; dinodino; Verginius Rufus

Much closer cousin to sulphEr apparently.


49 posted on 05/20/2014 3:19:42 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Gen.Blather

There are a lot of things that are low-volume still made with through-hole parts where space isn’t an issue and creative layout and a few almost free jumpers gets you a cost-effective single-sided board. Recently, I just repaired a <3 year old LCD video monitor where only the “brainy” related video stuff was surface mount. The power supply and the switch panel was through-hole, naturally, single-sided. Non-surface mountable parts will always exist. I expect that through-hole will continue for the next 30 years.


50 posted on 05/20/2014 3:25:09 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: raybbr

Tolerances on the end: Get some now!


51 posted on 05/20/2014 3:25:17 PM PDT by BushCountry (If you're wondering, "I got my screenname before GW was elected the first time.")
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To: Veggie Todd
People Liberals have totally lost their sense of humor.


There -- fixed it!

52 posted on 05/20/2014 3:27:01 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("The commenters are plenty but the thinkers are few." -- Walid Shoebat)
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To: Responsibility2nd
barred her from participating in the annual senior walk and may even take away her privilege of speaking at graduation.

Who cares, one of the most wasted times of my life was sitting in the audience waiting to parade across the high school stage just to receive a piece of paper that I now have no idea what happened to it. Let alone the cost of that fudugly gown with a stupid hat............

And this was in a gigantic school in Detroit that I had the misfortune of having to attend in my junior and senior year, where I can count the number of friends I had on one hand.

You REALLY want to celebrate your kid's graduation, stay away from the school and host a B-B-Q party for your kid and his close friends and really celebrate.........screw the auditorium!

53 posted on 05/20/2014 3:33:09 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Under Reagan spring always arrived on time.....)
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To: BRL
When was the last time anyone saw a color coded resistor?

That brings back memories of generator school AIT at Ft. Belvoir.

54 posted on 05/20/2014 3:40:28 PM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (The Second Amendment is NOT about the right to hunt. It IS a right to shoot tyrants.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Ms. Lee's was better...


55 posted on 05/20/2014 3:44:07 PM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: Gen.Blather
When I learned it, "bad" was not the mnemonic for black, black was.

Man, I am old!

56 posted on 05/20/2014 3:50:15 PM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Historians will refer to this administration as "The Half-Black Plague.")
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To: Aevery_Freeman

“Man, I am old! “

Only if the equipment you worked on said, “Danger, lethal voltage on back panel.” Then you can say, I’m old. But not before you tell me what a VCH11 was for...


57 posted on 05/20/2014 3:55:30 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

I didn’t laugh, thought it was dumb, but seriously, WTH is the problem with the school administrators?


58 posted on 05/20/2014 3:57:59 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Slump Tester

Living in a dorm at prep school, we took out an ad in the yearbook, as a fictional church.
The Heavenly Evangelical Dinners On Rock Mountain, Every AfternoonThursday, Sunday.

THE DORM EATS!

We got away with it!


59 posted on 05/20/2014 4:02:24 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Gen.Blather

I believe they are actually being procured again, Cavalry is being expanded upon some for more remote areas after Afghanistan.


60 posted on 05/20/2014 4:03:50 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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