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Jan 31, 2004 12:27

Yesterday during indoor recess, four girls ran over to K. and his friends, who were making imaginary robots out of math manipulatives. They were carrying a small whiteboard, and one of them was blushing furiously ( Read more... )

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heh djinnaya January 31 2004, 14:30:51 UTC
Please tell me that when we all "grow up" that you are going to take this story and write it into the best sitcom EVER! And then we can all go live in your mansion.

I'm gonna go draw spirals now! :)

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rivetpepsquad January 31 2004, 14:43:53 UTC
when sara and i first met we played MASH in the fulton st. bar.

with lots of DUMB items.

it was rad.

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tryffid January 31 2004, 15:17:41 UTC
MASH must have skipped over my town, because all I remember doing is the MORON test (of which I can't remember the details).

Please explain the formula, thanks.

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Re: msjen January 31 2004, 15:28:57 UTC
Maybe it's the same thing. What does MORON stand for? But I just tried explaining it and it's hard to explain. I'll just show you sometime. You make lists, draw a spiral, and count things. It's dumb.

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Re: tryffid January 31 2004, 15:33:50 UTC
I think the Moron test was more of a silly intelligence test, rather than a determinant of your future mate.

This one is a little outdated, and a bit more sophisticated than the one I remember:
http://www.geocities.com/vitek_g/

What would we do without Google?

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Re: msjen January 31 2004, 17:05:41 UTC
That was fun!

Not the same thing, though.

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baconmonkey January 31 2004, 17:58:18 UTC
my skool had something involving a folded paper contraption that would make something akin to pac-man whose mouth could open either up or sideways. There were things written on the ouside, inside, and on a folded-under pannel that had to do with some sort of predictions regarding one's future predicaments.

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Re: msjen January 31 2004, 21:16:19 UTC
nowadays those are known as "cootie catchers." i don't know why.

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Re: baconmonkey February 1 2004, 15:12:16 UTC
at first, I read that as having an extra "ch" in "cootie" and was *very* puzzled.

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Re: msjen February 1 2004, 16:31:15 UTC
Now THAT'S a useful item!!! ;)

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