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[cgronlund]

In eighth grade, I had a PE teacher who called a friend and me wops on a regular basis. In fact, he referred to us as "The Wop Brothers" and the "Dago Duo." (This same coach regularly threatened to stick his twelve and a half incher straight up the ass of anybody caught "foolhousing." He meant his shoe, but it's not hard to figure out why we all

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[mfelps]

Guinea.

[mfelps]

So I wandered into the office and Cynthia said, "You've officially been called a guinea."

"Mark?" I said.

She cracked up and said, "How'd you know..."

[cgronlund]

That's me, of course...

[mfelps]

It was like a red flag. Anyway, this rock throwing drunken Irish mick only means it with love.

You dago.

[systemgoddess]

Bwa-ha! Goombah?

[cgronlund]

Goombah info...

[sithvixen]

I miss some of my cool teachers!

[sithvixen]

For all of Coach Miller's faults, he WAS in charge of a camp program that sent me to Canada. That will always be a very fond memory.

Another favorite teacher was a coach. Not the brightest guy, but when I accidentally mooned him, he just laughed and told me I had an ugly ass...

[goth_poser_guy]

Lol....that's funny, especially the wordperfect replacement.

[anonymous]

And don't forget. You've been called a wallio. Bwwwhahahaahhahaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!

Mary

[cgronlund]

That's right! Wallio...how can I forget.

When your grandfather (father's father--the Danish side) knocks the Italian side, you know there's something wrong.

But then, with his alcoholism and addictions, Dad really was the white sheep of that family, so it's no surprise ol' Cliff knocked me for being Italian, and my cousins for being Jewish.

I guess Grandpa Pete balanced it all out by calling be Garibaldi...

[anonymous]

Garibaldi indeed :) A much more honorable reference.

And I've just been looking up Guinea and walio. Interesting.