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[OakLeaf]

the laundry would be all stiff and itchy from being hung out to dry

It wasn't until I started moving between a home with very hard water, and a home with very soft water, and hanging my wash to dry at both, that it occurred to me how those types of water got their names! I've never looked it up, but it seems an obvious guess.

[Crankin]

Maybe... I know the water here is hard, because whenever I've moved to a place with "soft" water, my hair gets even more difficult than it normally is!

[VeganBikeChick]

Feeling so old...

Went out to dinner tonight with a friend 13 years my junior. The waitress comped us both a glass of Amontillado and I remarked it was my first time having this drink but I remember the name well for having read "The Cask of Amontillado" in junior high. Both the waitress and my friend looked at me like I had a third head, neither one having heard of the story before. While I didn't love lit in school, it was certainly something I remembered. Cheers to being an old fogey.

[OakLeaf]

Ha! I think it's more some kids are into Poe and some just aren't. I'm pretty sure I'm a good bit older than you are? but I remember a time from high school, when some of the middle school kids for some reason started building a wall with those cardboard bricks, across the hallway of the science building. I stood behind it and hollered, "For the love of God, Montrésor!" The only person who got it was one of the teachers. (A science teacher too, not an English teacher.)

[Crankin]

I taught that story in 7th grade English for years. But, as we moved from using anthologies to real literature, it went by the wayside.

[OakLeaf]

Most of what I remember from seventh grade English is: A short story must have a conflict. It can be a conflict between man and nature, man and man, or man and himself. To which I always added: Women are not permitted in short stories except as the object of the conflict.


But, I don't remember reading "The Cask of Amontillado" in school. "The Tell-Tale Heart," I'm pretty sure we did.

[Pax]

Most of what I remember from seventh grade English is: A short story must have a conflict. It can be a conflict between man and nature, man and man, or man and himself. To which I always added: Women are not permitted in short stories except as the object of the conflict.

Ha!! Good one.

I remember being "assigned" to the library for PE and recess for two years when I was in a wheelchair and using crutches when I was a kid. The librarian saw a crushed spirit as I was a wildly active kid, but she talked with me and actually listened and started steering me towards books far above my level, she helped me let my mind run free even though my body couldn't, she introduced me to some amazing literature... sure made english classes fun from that point on.

[lph]

Feeling so old...

Went out to dinner tonight with a friend 13 years my junior. The waitress comped us both a glass of Amontillado and I remarked it was my first time having this drink but I remember the name well for having read "The Cask of Amontillado" in junior high. Both the waitress and my friend looked at me like I had a third head, neither one having heard of the story before. While I didn't love lit in school, it was certainly something I remembered. Cheers to being an old fogey.

Yup. At choir practice last week we were doing warm up exercises, and our 28 yr old conductor wanted us to sing "the Jello song, you know, the advertising jingle for Jello" (well, the norwegian equivalent).

Some of us old fogies didn't know it, so she hummed it for us. We all started smiling as it was pretty easy. Otherwise known as "Blue Moon".