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infinite monkey · 11-09-2011, 09:54 AM

I always enjoy seeing the signs put around for area kids and their various sports. School spirit always did mean a lot to me.

Good on Hebe!

monster · 11-09-2011, 09:56 AM

It was just such a surprise to us! A nice suprise. It's great.

infinite monkey · 11-09-2011, 09:58 AM

Back in my day, there was usually a toilet papering job involved during the sport season, too. It was actually an honor to get toilet-papered.

I bet kids don't do that anymore, too tough on the environment. And the "bad" kids are making pipe bombs.

If you want, I'll come up and toilet paper your yard for you. Have you yet had that uniquely American experience?

monster · 11-09-2011, 10:26 AM

Not yet...... and I hope not to, but you know what those river rats are like.

I have no idea what else might be in store, though. apart from outlaying more $$$

HungLikeJesus · 11-09-2011, 01:23 PM

I don't understand - where do the signs come from? Who makes the signs? Are there sign ferries?

infinite monkey · 11-09-2011, 01:26 PM

Yeah, there are big boats that take the signs back and forth, to and from the island.

(Students, cheerleaders, team members, student council, etc and so on.)

Sundae · 11-09-2011, 01:57 PM

Monster, I might be the only poster so far who really comprehends how peculiarly-amazing this is.
I know to an extent you've gone native (and so you should), but this is wonderful in such a foreign way.
Very cool potatoes.

Well done and all that, Hebe. Just don't get a big head.
(Just to add some proper English encouragement)

Undertoad · 11-09-2011, 02:05 PM

If she got a big head it would be harder to push through the water.

Sundae · 11-09-2011, 02:31 PM

If she'd had a big head to start with, she might have been an only child.

Just saying.

Spexxvet · 11-09-2011, 02:33 PM

If she got cocky, she'd have her own rudder

monster · 11-09-2011, 06:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sundae

If she'd had a big head to start with, she might have been an only child.

Just saying.

I always blame her ears for the c-section

Gravdigr · 11-10-2011, 05:04 PM

Here, for the feetball players they, the pep squad (?), paint up the players' cars and local bidnesses. One year (a hunderd year ago, when I was still in school) they painted my car, by mistake. They did a pretty good job, my maroon Monte Carlo, all done up in blue & white, looked almost patriotic. If I'd been a feetballer, Ida been flattered. So, I raised hell.

Got mah car washed by the cheerleaders. In uniform.

Hellyeah!

monster · 11-10-2011, 05:54 PM

I painted up the car for regionals last weekend -with the Eagle logo no less..... at 13, she doesn't have her own car....

Pete Zicato · 11-11-2011, 10:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

Back in my day, there was usually a toilet papering job involved during the sport season, too. It was actually an honor to get toilet-papered.

I bet kids don't do that anymore, too tough on the environment. And the "bad" kids are making pipe bombs.

It's still a tradition around here. The Zings HS cross-country and track coach lives next door. At the end of every season, the team would TP the tree in his front yard.

infinite monkey · 11-11-2011, 10:44 AM

My mom recalls when she was driving to our HS (a big rural school) and going through the small town near there.

The entire main street had been toilet-papered. Every tree lining the street, and the TP floated out over the road. She said it was like nothing she'd ever seen, like driving through a fairy world or something. She's still in awe of it.

Fun times. I remember my friend's mom driving us all over the place, in the middles of nowheres in some cases, to TP. Sometimes we got busted. I remember one family (kids our age) chasing us back to Mrs C's car...we jumped in and Mrs C took off, family chasing us until they couldn't keep up anymore. Go Mrs C Go!

11-09-2011, 09:56 AM	#17
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	It was just such a surprise to us! A nice suprise. It's great. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

11-09-2011, 10:26 AM	#19
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Not yet...... and I hope not to, but you know what those river rats are like. I have no idea what else might be in store, though. apart from outlaying more $$$ __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

11-09-2011, 01:23 PM	#20
HungLikeJesus Only looks like a disaster tourist Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: above 7,000 feet Posts: 7,208	I don't understand - where do the signs come from? Who makes the signs? Are there sign ferries? __________________ Keep Your Bodies Off My Lawn SteveDallas's Random Thread Picker.

11-09-2011, 01:57 PM	#22
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Monster, I might be the only poster so far who really comprehends how peculiarly-amazing this is. I know to an extent you've gone native (and so you should), but this is wonderful in such a foreign way. Very cool potatoes. Well done and all that, Hebe. Just don't get a big head. (Just to add some proper English encouragement) __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

11-09-2011, 02:31 PM	#24
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	If she'd had a big head to start with, she might have been an only child. Just saying. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

11-09-2011, 09:54 AM	#16
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	I always enjoy seeing the signs put around for area kids and their various sports. School spirit always did mean a lot to me. Good on Hebe!

11-09-2011, 09:58 AM	#18
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	Back in my day, there was usually a toilet papering job involved during the sport season, too. It was actually an honor to get toilet-papered. I bet kids don't do that anymore, too tough on the environment. And the "bad" kids are making pipe bombs. If you want, I'll come up and toilet paper your yard for you. Have you yet had that uniquely American experience?

11-09-2011, 01:26 PM	#21
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	Yeah, there are big boats that take the signs back and forth, to and from the island. (Students, cheerleaders, team members, student council, etc and so on.)

11-09-2011, 02:05 PM	#23
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	If she got a big head it would be harder to push through the water.

11-09-2011, 02:33 PM	#25
Spexxvet Makes some feel uncomfortable Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 10,346	If she got cocky, she'd have her own rudder __________________ "I'm certainly free, nay compelled, to spread the gospel of Spex. " - xoxoxoBruce

11-10-2011, 05:04 PM	#27
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	Here, for the feetball players they, the pep squad (?), paint up the players' cars and local bidnesses. One year (a hunderd year ago, when I was still in school) they painted my car, by mistake. They did a pretty good job, my maroon Monte Carlo, all done up in blue & white, looked almost patriotic. If I'd been a feetballer, Ida been flattered. So, I raised hell. Got mah car washed by the cheerleaders. In uniform. Hellyeah! __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

11-10-2011, 05:54 PM	#28
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	I painted up the car for regionals last weekend -with the Eagle logo no less..... at 13, she doesn't have her own car.... __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

11-11-2011, 10:44 AM	#30
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	My mom recalls when she was driving to our HS (a big rural school) and going through the small town near there. The entire main street had been toilet-papered. Every tree lining the street, and the TP floated out over the road. She said it was like nothing she'd ever seen, like driving through a fairy world or something. She's still in awe of it. Fun times. I remember my friend's mom driving us all over the place, in the middles of nowheres in some cases, to TP. Sometimes we got busted. I remember one family (kids our age) chasing us back to Mrs C's car...we jumped in and Mrs C took off, family chasing us until they couldn't keep up anymore. Go Mrs C Go!

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