James Kirkpatrick's Not-So-Random Keyboard Strokes - Shouts, TV Louts, and phone book Routes

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Posted by: James	5/5/2008 2:19 PM
Even though my bloodlines hearken back to stoic Protestant stock, where outbursts of emotion aren’t encouraged and are frowned upon, I don’t have a problem with people showing emotion. Heck, I’m not exactly a “keep it bottled in” guy when I get frustrated. People being outwardly happy don’t bother me if it’s a spontaneous reaction. I’ve noticed there is a specific pattern for any college graduation. Each group is normally sorted by degree (associates, bachelors, masters, and doctorate) and college (arts, science…) and they are instructed to stand up as a group to get their diploma. The crowd is warned to please hold their applause until all candidates’ names have been announced. This will hold true for the first few people’s names but once one group goes loco for their relative/friend, the ceremony devolves into seeing which group can cheer the loudest. The only issue I take with this boisterousness is when the cheering continues well into the introduction of the next person in line. Not only are you making a disruption but you also ruined that person’s 15 seconds of limelight after 2-8 years of hard work. Thankfully the person ahead of Megan in line in this weekend’s graduation ceremony didn’t have a boisterous glee club. Had I not been able to get her name announced while I was videotaping it would have sent me into an Anger Spiral that would have been not good to display in front of family. ******** I’m not sure if this will tickly anyone else’s funny bone but the latest Entertainment Weekly had an amusing sentence in their “Corrections” section. The sentence reads “In the TV quiz, two answers in a ‘Beverly Hills, 90210’ were scrambled. Donna abused prescription drugs and David dabbled in crystal meth.” I’ll readily admit to seeing all but one season of 90210 so knowing these characters brought back some memories of that Guilty Pleasure show. The correction just seemed funny since the correction wasn’t something relevant like a newspaper saying something like “The hometown of (insert dead person), listed in Sunday’s obituary section, should have been King of Prussia, Pennsylvania and not Intercourse, Pennsylvania.” Their correction was “Hey, we got the debilitating drug addictions for these fictional characters from 15 years ago wrong on a quiz that most of you simply skimmed over.” ******** One more phone book – We received yet another superfluous/useless/outdated phone book on Saturday. This time it was the AT&T Yellow Pages Companion for Greater Atlanta. I guess this book covers the 404/470/678/770 area codes. The problem is though; his Companions are in the recycle bin on their journey to be ground up and made into yet another useless phone book. Hopefully its next phone book incarnation will be at a hotel room where it could actually get some use.

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Re: Shouts, TV Louts, and phone book Routes

By sl on 5/6/2008 10:17 AM

I like to read the newspaper's retractions like "In the story, the source of the possibly illegal funds could have been misinterpreted..." ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................James - if it makes you fel better you could hollow out a secret compartment in the phonebook. Hide something.

Re: Shouts, TV Louts, and phone book Routes

By Muuurph on 5/6/2008 2:46 PM

"his will hold true for the first few people’s names but once one group goes loco for their relative/friend, the ceremony devolves into seeing which group can cheer the loudest." ........................................................................................................... <br><br>This is called being obnoxious, rude, and having no consideration for anybody else. This is what passes for "cool" with a large portion of the population nowadays.

Re: Shouts, TV Louts, and phone book Routes	By TSAC on 5/7/2008 10:54 PM
When 944 Graduate, you have a severe hangover, your expecting to be the first one on stage and gone because you are getting the highest degree awarded that day. Imagine the agony of realizing that you will actually have to sit through 3 hours of that bad hangover and be the last one to get your diploma. My head is still hurting me!!!!!!!!!

Re: Shouts, pops and locks

By Syl on 5/8/2008 9:52 AM

The business school grads of the day (okay, not all, but many) carried bottles of champagne under their robes (easily held in the sleeve), when the school was announced there was a lot of poppin' noise and corks in the air. That was fun. Much more fun than shutting down the campus earlier that month due to heavy ash fall from Mt. St. Helens and walking around with surgical or dust masks and the highly effective personal bandanna application. .......................................................................................................................................................................................... Before the interweb, research papers were a bitch when the library was closed and locked. Pop that cork and let it fly.

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