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

[Fred Schneider]

On Feb 6, 2007, at 6:36 PM, Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> 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?

You and Garison Keilor!
>
>> 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.

Her husband is just as clueless.   Fortunately, after he got his MD  
he decided not to continue as a doctor.
>
>>
>> Before you ask, I don't know the states in Mexico.
>
> Quintana Roo sounds out of place, but it's one.  And Sonora, and  
> Distrito Federal, and Baja California but I can't put things in  
> order like I can Canada.   Never been in Mexico except to walk  
> across into Cuidad Juarez and into Cuidad Aqua Pietra.
>
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