### Apollo BBS Archive - April 14, 1990

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    Message: 64764
    Author: $ Paul Savage
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Daryl/Hallmark
    Date: 04/14/90  Time: 05:46:00

     Brilliant! But I don't know that I want to go back to work again.
    (Actually, I don't know where I would cram any more activity into my
    "leisurely" retired lifestyle.)

    Message: 64765
    Author: $ Paul Savage
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: 13 year old murder
    Date: 04/14/90  Time: 05:52:34

     Actually, I believe that the boy involved was also 13, not 14.
     This incident will no doubt raise yet another cry for stricter gun
    controls. Since it has been reported that the boy's parents apparently left
    a loaded gun laying on the bed when they left for a trip, leaving the boy
    under the eye of a neighbor, what seems to be needed here is not gun
    control, but parent control. And I don't mean parentAL control! I mean the
    parents needed to have some sense drummed into them, preferably before the
    scene could have been set for such a tragedy.
     Perhaps the parents should be charged with contributory negligence?

    Message: 64766
    Author: Hans Glans
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Rod
    Date: 04/14/90  Time: 10:33:46

    Well, thanks.
    It's all true. If you want to LEARN at school, especially high school, you
    are considered weird, and subject to much abuse. The system fights to keep
    as many live bodies in, as possible, forcing serious students to be mired in
    the same useless system of teaching used for those, who, have been turned
    off, for whatever reason, to bettering their mind.
    The result is that you learn to play their game well, to succeed there, but
    you don't learn to LEARN.  The best teachers I had chucked the
    "requirements" system. Since that is a joke anyway. Education isn't assembly
    line, like the legislature thinks.
    Some examples:
    Physical Education. Yeah, more like: Play competitive sports against other
    students, to show those who don't have the skills to play that they are
    really useless and should solely rely on their mind.
    Where's the EDUCATION part. To me it would mean learning to take care of the
    physical side of your being. How to exercise, and feed it for optimal
    performance.
    History; deals mostly with dates and places, not why's. and how's. Of course
    it is boring to a lot of students. Memorizing dates and places just isn't
    fun.
    Magnet schools
    Yes, folks, you want to take computers, or foreign languages other than
    French or Spanish, get up an hour early, and get home an hour late.
    And risk your life being among people that don't want you there.

    Message: 64767
    Author: Hans Glans
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Auto insurance
    Date: 04/14/90  Time: 10:34:49

    Why does everyone ignore the fact that the reason car insurance is so high
    is because only 2/3rds of people are paying.

    Message: 64768
    Author: $ Melissa Dee
    Category: For sale
    Subject: T-shirt ideas
    Date: 04/14/90  Time: 13:32:52

    So, if we come up with a good slogan, we can get $.25 royalities per shirt
    sold?  Hummm.

    How about "I am woman: Hear me Bitch".

    Message: 64769
    Author: $ Rod Williams
    Category: Chit Chat
    Subject: Melissa Dee/last
    Date: 04/14/90  Time: 16:17:52

    Personally I love the slogan you suggest.  I will make a note of it and run
    it by the guys.

    Thanks for the 'female' input, it is appreciated.  If you happen to see
    these shirts on the market then you will get your quarter per.