Re: OT: You Know You're A Redneck When....

From: Jim Thompson (thegreatone_at_example.com)
Date: 01/29/05 

Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 10:08:01 -0700

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 23:13:39 -0500, keith <krw@att.bizzzz> wrote:

>On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 14:01:26 -0700, Jim Thompson wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 20:01:21 GMT, Mac <foo@bar.net> wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 20:18:57 -0800, John Larkin wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 27 Jan 2005 19:17:19 -0800, larwe@larwe.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>When 19 Juniors and Seniors in
>>>>>>your local neighborhood high school score 800 in Math on the SATs.
>>>>>>And about half also scored 800 on the vocabulary section.
>>>>>
>>>>>You'll need to explain:
>>>>>
>>>>>* whether 19 is a big percentage of the school population in a "local
>>>>>neighborhood high school" (at my high school there were >200 boys in
>>>>>the graduating class)
>>>>>* what the significance is of "junior and senior" - does this mean
>>>>>people in years 11 and 12?
>>>>>* whether 800 is a good score or not
>>>>>* whether you are being sarcastic
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 800 is a perfect score. It's news when one kid in any high school does
>>>> it. I did once, and a fair amount of attention was generated.
>>>>
>>>> And rednecks are never sarcastic; they don't need to be.
>>>>
>>>> John
>>>
>>>The test has been revised several times. The one you took, assuming you
>>>are in your 30's or older, was much harder than the one the kids take
>>>today.
>>>
>>>--Mac
>>
>> I just received my Medicare card in the mail (and I'm NOT disabled, so
>> you know how old that makes me ;-)
>
>Don't tell your friends over on the *itch groups that. They think you're
>hot! ;-)

I thought I had only ANTI-fans ;-)

                                        ...Jim Thompson 

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