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To: COUNTrecount

Oh, I almost forgot one of my favorite stories.

Back in high school (late ‘70s) we had a black guy in our Western Civ class named Olglesby (last name, I forget his first). For some reason, the teacher couldn’t pronounce it any other way than “Oreo Cookie.” :>)

Thankfully, he and everyone else in the class had a sense of humor. We all regularly got verbally abused by the teacher, and he by us - all for the fun of it. No one came away an emotional wreck, no one felt like they had be “micro-aggressed” (as if that was even a word or a concept!)...IOW, we were normal and having some laughs with a bit of self-deprecating humor.

Damn, I miss those days.


90 posted on 09/23/2016 9:40:18 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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I had a sergeant with a very long name that began with “A”

Nobody could pronounce his name and if you could, it would take to long.

So we called him Sgt. Alphabet.

It had almost every letter in the alphabet.


98 posted on 09/23/2016 3:16:35 PM PDT by Only1choice____Freedom (As long as America's tolerence of failure is not overwhelmed by a desire to succeed, we will fail.)
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