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To save the day? :p
Help the helpless, rejected I-cant-do-my-homeworkers? :p
Seriously, I don't mind helping others as long as they are ready to do a bit themselves, like reading the books beforehand at least... But there are some even I cannot bring myself to help... Like recent http://www.online-literature.com/for...ead.php?t=3417 threat...
Help me because I am too lazy??? :rolleyes:
Tongue in cheek!
Folks will be folks
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Originally Posted by crisaor
Indeed...this is an authoritarian forum..
Sorry to say, but that's the truth!
when was our glorious, rightous admin overthrown and replaced?
WTF when will you guys stop *****ing about a closed thread, that was hatefull and useless, the whole thing should be deleted.
have you came back just to start a fight?
I would like to nominate the first three posts of angryteacher:Quote:
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Mr. Anderson??? Someone has been watching the Matrix movies too much! :pQuote:
Originally Posted by angryteacher
what the deal with a teacher that dont care about the kids?? thats the wrong people shouldnt become teachers if they dont care about kids
Can we say projecting...?
We can but not really too sure what's the reference... I might know in the morning though ;), my brain works the most mysterious ways when it's trying to find a thought :D
Though a thought is already forming... woah, wonder if saying 'projecting' has got something in common with 'influence'... better go before I get more thoughts, they're scary :D
Scher, I am disappointed in your judgment upon this troubled soul who was merely seeking aid to a problem that lay outside of his control. Did it ever occur to you that supplying answers to someone on the internet is not unlike hiding Jews from the Nazis during the Holocaust? And might I remind you that these were elaborate, complex questions in the always tricky multiple-choice format, in which the false answers outnumber the true answer by a 3 to 1 ratio?
I could share an obscure parable here to illustrate my point, but you would only misunderstand it.
have I ever told you guys that I went to school with a girl who read Animal Farm... (this was in JR high... but we were a very literary class - read as a class Macbeth at age 14 and Hamlet at 13)... anyways... she got up to do her book report and started talking about how it was such an interesting look at farm life and farm animals....
I can't remember hearing such a mix of groaning and laughter.... poor girl.
Ya know, I'm probably asking for it here -- and I've been such a good little ihrocks lately -- but having read this, and being a friend of the person known as Abdorinbo, I feel a little compelled to say a word or two.
The first time I posted here....way, way back in the ancient days of this forum (the information superhighway was still a dirt road) I received a reply: "I am Abdorinbo and I will be your friend." Truer words were never written, for Abdo has been a very good friend to me. Before "Abs" came to this board, the posts read like several people talking out-loud to themselves and not like the easy and relaxed conversations that go on now. He got people to start interacting. He started dialogues and gave members a chance to get to know each other. He was extremely intelligent, a gifted writer, and generous with his knowledge.
Then, one day, things started to change. The Abdorinbo who had been colorful, a little off the wall, but very friendly, began to grow hostile and angry. While just about everyone else here at that time decided to simply be offended, I asked Abs what was up -- sudden personality changes in the so-called "real world" are often an indication that something is very wrong. Such was the case here. I won't go into detail, but my chum Adborinbo was going through a very rough time in his life. He was lashing out here because it was the only outlet he had. Yes, it was ugly, and yes, he was wrong. And yes, things got very out of hand. Banning him was probably the only solution, though it pained me to watch because I knew how much this place meant to Abdo. I knew he was being self-destructive, trying to erase any good from his life, because the darkness that had overcome him made him think there was no place for goodness or beauty.
I'm very pleased to say that Abdorinbo has moved out of that darkness now. He's doing very well, has another home in cyberspace where he is still "off the wall" but accepted as part of the community, and has many good things going on in his life.
So go ahead and say Abdorinbo was an ***hole, or whatever else you like; you can remember him only for the dark times, only when he was at his worst, but this forum wouldn't be what it is were it not for him and when he was at his best, he shined like the Northern Lights here.
An example
So I guess this was more than a word or two, and I know there will be those who disagree with me. However, it seems that Abdorinbo's name has survived long after his departure from this place; maybe this will help some of the new people see why.
I know I have seen his posts around, and I thought him a wonderful poet, but just not the best interpersonal type. If Abdorinbo had trouble during such times, I can understand, however; stress has disturbing ways of working on the mind.Quote:
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Abdorinbo reminds me, ihrocks, of a member we once had named Spite; no moderators ever banned him, but he got painstakingly close, or so it seemed. He seemed to have a bright mind, but often showed his more offensive side more often. An long example (with an Edgar Allan Poe reading and an interesting dialogue also between Jay, sub, and Scher :D):
http://www.online-literature.com/for...0&page=1&pp=15
I remember reading it and I thought not about animals but about mthe symbolism...I'd be laughing so hard if I was very.Quote:
Originally Posted by imthefoolonthehill