I really hope by trumpet, you mean trumpet, as in musical instrument On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 9:11 PM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote:
> I took the mercury out of a thermostat and totally coated my trumpet. It > was very shiny for a while. I still have that trumpet. > > *From:* Steve Jones > *Sent:* Thursday, August 17, 2017 5:59 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT Monday Morning > > Those were the good old days, i got caught playing with a puddle of > mercury from a broken thermometer on the playground once. The teacher told > me i was going to die and i was stupid. Made me wash my hands. After school > i told my mom, she told me i wasnt going to die, but i was stupid, then we > talked about how cool mercury is to mess with and how she played with it as > a kid. > Today, a hazmat crew would have been called in and 10 kids who werent > near it would have had lawsuits against the school. > > Was on the playground after school once, the city had just widened the > streets. As i stepped off the grass to the blacktop i heard a crazy loud > cracking, woosh and bang behind me, as i turned around the tree next to the > road had fallen like 10 feet behind me cause the city cut through all the > roots on one side. Of course i went in to investigate. I had just laud down > to look up through the limbs when a teacher came out and saw me laying > there. Thought the tree fell on me and freaked out. When i got up laughing > they cussed me out. Then we had a good laugh. > Today that would have resulted in all the trees getting cut down (it > ultimately did a few years later). The teacher would have been fired for > cursing at me and i would have been forced into ptsd treatment. > > When i shot the teacher in the eye with my rubber band gun, i got a sweet > paddlin and my rubber band gun taken away til the end of the day. > Today, i would have been imprisoned, the school would have been on > lockdown, and mothers against guns would have protested until we installed > metal detectors (it was a wooden rubber band gun) > > > All i can say is wtf, and i feel bad for my kids > > On Aug 17, 2017 6:45 PM, "Josh Reynolds" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> That was a different age where it wasn't common to have multiple pending >> lawsuits against school districts a week. >> >> On Aug 17, 2017 6:37 PM, "Steve Jones" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> When i was in school and we had the partial eclips the teachers told us >>> to just look kind of by it, but not right at it. We werent helpless >>> dummies. >>> >>> On another note, anybody wanna go in on buying a boatload of iphones and >>> whatnot for tuesday when the stores run out because every moron burnt their >>> cameras up filming it? Markups of 1500 percent will probably be doable wuth >>> these mopes. >>> >>> Im assuming this wont be covered under warranty either, its gonna be >>> hawt. >>> >>> On Aug 17, 2017 5:48 PM, "Josh Reynolds" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> HRM? It's a liability thing. >>> >>> We had to sign one for ours too. >>> >>> "blah blah blah, staring into the sun is bad, we accept no risk for your >>> children's vision, sign here if you are aware of all of this and are still >>> willing to let your kids go outside or whatever" >>> >>> On Aug 17, 2017 4:51 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> That’s some pretty subversive crap. >>>> Manifest destiny... opiate of the masses... >>>> >>>> *From:* Steve Jones >>>> *Sent:* Thursday, August 17, 2017 3:45 PM >>>> *To:* [email protected] >>>> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT Monday Morning >>>> >>>> I has to sign a permission slip for my kids to watch it at school. >>>> Madness >>>> >>>> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 4:02 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Go West, young man. >>>>> >>>>> *From:* Forrest Christian (List Account) >>>>> *Sent:* Thursday, August 17, 2017 3:01 PM >>>>> *To:* af >>>>> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT Monday Morning >>>>> >>>>> Looking like I might want to skip Wyoming and go to plan B >>>>> >>>>> On Aug 17, 2017 11:20 AM, "Chuck McCown" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> So far, so good: >>>>>> https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/ >>>>>> 2017/08/17/total-solar-eclipse-weather-forecast-as-of-aug-17 >>>>>> /?utm_term=.639cd1b17ec3 >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>
