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Sep 27, 2006 16:20

Interesting. S.E. Hinton had a habit of capitalizing "Socs" but not "greasers", at least from what I see anyway. I wonder why that was. If I were a psychologist or something, I would say that she subconsciously felt inferior to the Socs and was displaying that by representing Socs as more important with capitalization, but alas, I'm not, and plus, ( Read more... )

prom, gemini, pisces, greasers, astrology, socs, the outsiders, horoscopes

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chu_chii September 28 2006, 00:14:26 UTC
We're all Libra, actually. artemis and I have the same birthday and latch's is five days after ours. =] So, you got one of us right!

I don't know much about Saggitarius...but I'm interested about why you guessed I was one. Tell meee. =D

Anywho, one of my friends is a Pisces and my Aunt is a Gemini. She's a bit out there. But my Pisces friend is nothing like a Pisces.

But, I trust those sort of things for personality. They've always fascinated me.

I never noticed that Socs was capitalized and greaser wasn't. But I did find out that "sosh" was an actual slang term. Whether it's pronounced the same as Soc (though, my entire english class still pronounces Soc, "sock"...because that's how it's spelled!) I do not know, but it was for the rich girls who wore bobby socks and such.... So, it's kind of close. Except the fact that sosh is only for one gender. And may not be pronounced the same.

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i_fell_so_fast September 28 2006, 01:25:10 UTC
Ah, and I so knew that too... I've seen that "Upcoming Birthdays (or whatever)" chart, like, every day for the past month, lol.

Anyway, I said Sagitarius because it said that they are have "sincerity, a direct approach to life, friendliness, openness, and optimism", and are "frank" and "one of the few things that can cause you to lose your temper is to be accused of dishonesty", have an "unquenchable tintellectual curiousity", are "extremely versatile", are "very independent and need a lot of personal freedom", "like to travel", and flaws are "procrastination and excessive risk taking". So yeah, total guess, but it seemed kinda like you, lol.

Ah, I can't imagine pronouncing it "sock" just because my teacher started us out thinking of it as "sosh" since the first day. That is pretty cool though, that it's a slang term.

: )

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chu_chii September 28 2006, 01:33:25 UTC
Well, we had one of those permanant substitute things for the last few weeks of school because our normal teacher was in the hospital and she had no idea how to pronounce it, so for the first to days we're reading it, "Sock, Sock, Sock" and we hear the tape. "Sosh" and when it was done with the chapter, we all sort of protested. "Sosh? Sosh?! It's not even spelled that way! If you're gonna make is sosh, spell it s-o-s-h! Not s-o-c! That's obviously sock! I refuse to pronounce it sosh when I read!"

So they were the socks.

Anyway, I do sound like a Saggitarius...so, what's a Libra like? And, you mentioned that Gemini was your...uh...what ever thing...like they go together? I'm interested in that too. =]

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i_fell_so_fast September 28 2006, 02:44:21 UTC
Haha, that stinks. I had one of those, a permanent sub, last year, when my teacher had her baby. Ugh, I didn't like her either. I don't think anybody did ( ... )

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chu_chii September 28 2006, 00:32:40 UTC
P.S. Yeah, The Outsiders is a big thing in our school too. Because we were the honors class, we had to rip that book apart and analyze everything. It was annoying.

Oh, and it's interesting you live so close to Tulsa. My mother used to live nearby too and she recently went back to Oklahoma to visit family for a bit. Turns out her old highschool was having homecoming the same week as us. How convenient is that?

So, now I have a shirt with Bixby emblazoned on the front...

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i_fell_so_fast September 28 2006, 03:45:09 UTC
Ah, did you have to read I Am The Cheese by Robert Cormier? I *hated* it, with a passion. It just was not my thing at all. It was probably a very good book though; I think it's one of those you either love or hate. I can see why other people liked it.

That's a cute idea, the birthday thing. I'm gonna have to use that sometime...

: )

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artemis_rex September 28 2006, 22:02:56 UTC
My birthday's Sunday (I will be very old) and I'm a Libra. ;)

I also had to read the Outsiders in eighth grade. It was actually the *only* book we had to read. I think I got in trouble for reading 101 Arabian Nights (which eighth graders should definately not read) when I was supposed to be reading Outsiders.

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i_fell_so_fast October 1 2006, 02:03:07 UTC
Well Happy almost Birthday!

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