[PRCo] Re: pat__service__cuts__2007.01.23-changed to 2/1/07

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Fred Schneider wrote:

> I would believe it.    Remember John, we went through a period
> starting in the 1970s when we allowed the inmates to control the
> asylum, i.e. the children to tell the school administrators which
> courses were relevant to their lives and which were not.   That was
> when we removed a lot of foreign language, history and geography
> courses from American middle and high schools.

Spanish didn't help me a whit. Swedish would have. That wasn't offered. 
Who knew?

> planes.   At that point I had about 55 hours in my log book.   Show
> it to you some time ... I never threw it out.    I remember one
> student flight to Williamsport when my instructor remarked sternly,
> 'DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHERE YOU ARE.   YOU HAVE NOT LOOKED AT A CHART
> SINCE WE LEFT LANCASTER."  I smiled and chirped, "Yup.   That's
> Sunbury under us.   Shamokin is off the right wing.  Williamsport is
> dead ahead around the mountain."   Lloyd just shook his had and said

It's always fun when you drop out of the clouds to try to figure out 
where you are on a commercial flight. Hm. Railroad yard. No river. Um. 
Pitcairn! There's my house!

> surrounding Pennsylvania.   You'll be amazed at the answers you
> get.   Remember that young lady, John, who told you and me and Ed
> that she didn't know where the state capitol was and she didn't have
> to know because she wasn't it school any more?   Guys, we were only
> ten miles from Harrisburg.    I remember asking my niece for the name
> of the country that touched the U. S. to the south.   She didn't have
> a clue.   She married a doctor.   She is still clueless and she isn't
> even blond.

That's... pretty bad.

>
> Before you ask, I don't know the states in Mexico.

Quintana Roo sounds out of place, but it's one.