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School Myths
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Posted By:
matzusdog
in work
Mar 24, 2005
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I was wondering if any other people have had the same school myths that myself and a friend had - we went to different schools in the same town, and at some point we both remember being in a low year (2nd or in my case 3rd) and hearing that the 5th years from our rival school were coming down to wait outside our school with bricks and stuff to kick all our heads in.
Seems all their teachers were off on training, and their school was closed, I can remember the story going around the school and most people being quite worried, a few of the older boys even found some chain from somewhere and hid it in a bush for after school finished.
of course, when hometime came the boys from the other school were nowhere to be seen, and I remember thinking that was all just a stupid story.
However when I told my friend this, bearing in mind he went to an entirely different school, he had had the exact same experience - even to the point of the Chain in the Bush story.
bizarre...
Other myths then of course you have the 'cough and drop' test at school (they tell you in junior school that when you get to Senior school a doctor comes and cups your balls and tells you to cough) and also the 'blue fishes' - that some big boys take first years and promise to show them some 'blue fishes', take them into the bogs and flush their heads down them.
And I supposed we all had teachers who everyone thought were kiddy fiddlers, teachers who were supposedly having affairs or who commited suicide after being caught knocking one off in the stationary cupboard.
Do the same stories get passed down year after year, so we have all heard the same ones?
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Hairy Houdini
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Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 | 04:43 PM
yes, Mdog, the same stories do get passed down from year to year. Actually, it is estimated that the World will run out of new stories by the year 2009. Still have new audiences, though |
matzusdog
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Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 | 04:46 PM
There is a sect of monks somewhere in Tibet that write down every story as it is told. When the last story is written, the world will fold itself up and put itself away on the shelf of Universal Oddities.
thus it has been written and thus it has been spoked... |
The Curator
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Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 | 04:54 PM
I once read an Arthur C. Clarke story about that Tibetan monastery. At the end of the story the monks finished their task and the stars began going out, one by one. I was about ten when I read it, and I thought that was pretty cool. |
Charybdis
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Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 | 08:01 PM
Wasn't that the 9 billion names of God? They got a computer to help them finish faster, I think. |
The Curator
in San Diego
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Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 | 08:10 PM
That was it. |
Boo
in The Land of the Haggii...
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Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 | 04:46 AM
I've been trying to find it (The Nine Billion Names of God) online to read, but I'm having no luck. Anyone have any idea where I could find it?
A bit off topic, but Alex started it.
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The Curator
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Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 | 10:28 AM
I don't know if it's online. You probably would have to buy the book used. Check out stores like abebooks.com. |
Charybdis
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Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 | 11:01 AM
It was really more of a novella, if that long. Try looking for collections of Bradbury's stories. |
Citizen Premier
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Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 | 07:58 PM
Was it Bradbury, Clarke or Asimov? I remember that story, vaguely. |
The Curator
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Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 | 08:26 PM
It was definitely Clarke. The entire story seems to be online here:
http://www.tcnj.edu/~miranda/classes/topics/reading/clarke.html
It's not very long. |
Boo
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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 | 04:07 AM
Thanks Alex!
It's... I don't know. Kind of sweet and slow. In a good way.
Anyway, I tried googling anything I could think of to find it, and it still didn't work. Damn me. |
Dany
in Waco, Texas
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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 | 11:23 AM
I remeber when I was going to high school in Temple Texas there where rumors that the bathrooms near the band hall were haunted. Being in band and having changed in the bathroom (I changed into my marching uniform in the bathroom.) I never heard or saw a ghost in the bathroom. |
thunder
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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 | 11:46 AM
matzudog I have all those stories now aswell as the ghost in the tiolet one. I kinda knew it was fake though as I was the one who stood in the cubicle to flush the toilet as they sung the 'silly mary stupid mary bloody mary' thing, frightened some girls to tears, but we were in year 4 at the time (about 8 years old).
The 'all local schools hate each other' thing is around in my school and pretty much everyone who lives about 10 seconds away from my school (almost everyone) belives it. However seeing as I live about 10 seconds from the school who would apparently kick anyone from Lealands (i.e. me) heads in if they dared to set foot on their 'territory' and walk past big groups of 'em all by my tiny self almost every day, I kinda figure its possibly maybe not true,
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