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My favorite teacher taught me for four years. Two for Chemistry and two for physics. He was very interesting and really taught you to think as opposed to memorize. He taught us that there was nothing important about a single data point.
My least favorite really didn't like me. She got mad at me for writing my computer programs too advanced and separated me for talking.. in a senior level calculus class. That hadn't happened since I was in elementary school.
Thank you for posting! I thought this was a good idea, and was bummed that no one posted!
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I wish the heel on my pump had not broken
I wish the heel on my pump had not broken
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Check that crevasse, just to make sure they did not fall in there, too. Hi Alan! 
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Thank you three in front of me. Unfortunately, Alan suffered a sudden spasm and has fallen into the crevasse, where he landed, albeit comfy-cozy, on a giant toadstool, leaving me to handle the end of the line. 
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Doritos
Scrambled eggs or sunnyside up (or version thereof: i.e. over easy, over medium)
Scrambled eggs or sunnyside up (or version thereof: i.e. over easy, over medium)
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Quote by TuckerQuote by KieraQuote by Tucker
When I was a kid, the other boys used to say the girls were yuck. I didn't think so but shut up. If one just looks at the avatar pictures of the three women directly above me, LaJumelleMauvaise, TaliaRussell and Kiera, it is absolutely clear they were wrong!! Wow! You talk about Babes! Woohoo!
I am sure the other ladies will agree that ur totally blue non existent avatar is beyond measure and I hasten to add if you make your avi Henry "The Hunk" Cavill..I call first dibs
That is quite a nice thing to say Kiera. I love you too baby.
Thank you, newer than me person!
Hi Kiera!
When I was a kid, I thought coconut came in the shell shredded. The first time I went to visit my grandparents in Florida, right after they moved there, my grandfather opened a coconut in front of me. I kept asking him where the coconut was, and he kept pointing, but all I saw was the white inside of the shell. I thought you would open the shell and shredded coconut would fall out!
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Quote by paulusQuote by JWrenArnie? Who is Arnie? Oh, and btw, I'm in front againQuote by TaliaRussell
Just going to bed now. But I'll be back.
Who's that talking? Is it Talia or Arnie? Never mind, I'm here NOW!
..
When Arnie said "I'll be back, Maria said: "oh no you won't!"
I, however, am back.
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Granted: now you will both freeze.
I wish someone would tell me something really funny so I could laugh so hard I can't stand up.
I wish someone would tell me something really funny so I could laugh so hard I can't stand up.
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You, my friend, have held this spot far too long. Move aside. I will have a good long stay while the across-the-ponders slumber
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Quote by ginger86
granted.... and the duckies thank you
i wish i also had the keys to the car
Oh my god!! I love the ducky pool!
Granted, but the Jacuzzi is in the middle of nowhere and if you get out, you will freeze to death.
I wish the cat would only throw up hairballs on the floor, instead of the carpet.
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Just a forum to muse about favorite or least favorite teachers, or both.
One of my favorite teachers in high school was a teacher who taught sociology. She was an older woman, but very cool. I also took her for an ancient civilizations class. Her classes were really interesting. I remember once, a kid in the class was doing the NY Times crossword puzzle in class - and she caught him, and, in front of the class, just started filling in the crossword puzzle - bing, bing, bing. It was impressive.
One of my favorite teachers in high school was a teacher who taught sociology. She was an older woman, but very cool. I also took her for an ancient civilizations class. Her classes were really interesting. I remember once, a kid in the class was doing the NY Times crossword puzzle in class - and she caught him, and, in front of the class, just started filling in the crossword puzzle - bing, bing, bing. It was impressive.
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Quote by Dreamcatcher
When I was a kid I thought everything had feelings and I had to make sure there was never just one by itself.. my models, comic books, toys, stuffed animals.. always had to make sure they weren't by themselves.. I always thought they would feel lonely.. I know.. pathetic.. but kids get crazy notions..
I kind of felt that way, too.
When I was a kid, I thought that when I looked up in the sky and could see the clouds move, that I was seeing the earth turning.
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Quote by paulus
Roses are red
like the blood in my veins
it is also the color
of the feeling that reigns
over all other feelings
that I always feel
and I know in my heart
that it still is as real
as the day I first kissed you
held you close in my arms
you will always be my flame
and my being still warms
when I sense you around me
when I feel that you're close
I will love you forever
you're my beautiful rose
This is so lovely!
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Roses are red,
But sometimes they're white -
Their scent fills the air
On hot summer nights -
Roses are red,
But they can be yellow -
With soft velvet petals
That carpet the soil -
Roses are red,
With thorns that can stab,
If you are careless and give them a grab -
Roses are red,
And they give their name
To a Parade that we watch New Year's Day.
But sometimes they're white -
Their scent fills the air
On hot summer nights -
Roses are red,
But they can be yellow -
With soft velvet petals
That carpet the soil -
Roses are red,
With thorns that can stab,
If you are careless and give them a grab -
Roses are red,
And they give their name
To a Parade that we watch New Year's Day.
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In 2007, 2,000 people who took part in the poll online at worldbookday.com nominated their top 10 titles that they could not live without. The result is a compilation of the top 100 books. Agree or Disagree, Which books have you read or plan to read?
1. Put an (x) after those you have read.
2. Put (#) those you plan on reading.
3. Put (~) next to those you didn't finish reading for whatever reason.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [x]
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [x]
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [x]
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling[x]
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [x]
6 The Bible [~]
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [x]
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [x]
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [ ]
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [x]
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [x]
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [x]
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [~]
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare [~]
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [x]
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [x]
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [ ]
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [x]
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [x]
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot [x]
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell [ ]
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald [x]
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens [x]
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [~]
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams [ ]
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [x]
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [ ]
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [x]
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame [ ]
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy [#]
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens [x]
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [ ]
34 Emma - Jane Austen [x]
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen [x]
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis[ ]
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini [x]
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres [ ]
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden [x]
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne [x]
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell [#]
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown [x]
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [x]
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving [x]
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins [#]
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery [x]
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy [x]
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood [ ]
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding [x]
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan [#]
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel [#]
52 Dune - Frank Herbert [ ]
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons [ ]
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen[x]
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth [ ]
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon [ ]
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens [x]
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley [x]
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon [x]
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [ ]
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [#]
62 - Vladimir Nabokov [x]
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt [x]
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold [x]
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas [ ]
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac [x]
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy [x]
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie [ ]
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville [x]
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [x]
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker [ ]
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [x]
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson [ ]
75 Ulysses - James Joyce [x]
76 The Inferno – Dante [x]
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [ ]
78 Germinal - Emile Zola [ ]
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [x]
80 Possession - AS Byatt [ ]
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens [x]
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell [ ]
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker [ ]
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro [ ]
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert [x]
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry [ ]
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White [x]
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom [ ]
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [x]
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton [ ]
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad [x]
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery [x]
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks [ ]
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams [#]
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole [#]
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute [#]
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexander Dumas [ ]
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare [x]
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [x]
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo [x]
1. Put an (x) after those you have read.
2. Put (#) those you plan on reading.
3. Put (~) next to those you didn't finish reading for whatever reason.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [x]
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [x]
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [x]
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling[x]
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [x]
6 The Bible [~]
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [x]
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [x]
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [ ]
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [x]
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [x]
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [x]
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [~]
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare [~]
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [x]
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [x]
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [ ]
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [x]
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [x]
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot [x]
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell [ ]
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald [x]
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens [x]
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [~]
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams [ ]
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [x]
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [ ]
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [x]
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame [ ]
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy [#]
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens [x]
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [ ]
34 Emma - Jane Austen [x]
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen [x]
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis[ ]
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini [x]
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres [ ]
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden [x]
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne [x]
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell [#]
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown [x]
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [x]
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving [x]
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins [#]
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery [x]
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy [x]
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood [ ]
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding [x]
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan [#]
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel [#]
52 Dune - Frank Herbert [ ]
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons [ ]
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen[x]
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth [ ]
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon [ ]
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens [x]
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley [x]
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon [x]
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [ ]
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [#]
62 - Vladimir Nabokov [x]
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt [x]
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold [x]
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas [ ]
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac [x]
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy [x]
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie [ ]
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville [x]
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [x]
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker [ ]
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [x]
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson [ ]
75 Ulysses - James Joyce [x]
76 The Inferno – Dante [x]
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [ ]
78 Germinal - Emile Zola [ ]
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [x]
80 Possession - AS Byatt [ ]
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens [x]
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell [ ]
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker [ ]
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro [ ]
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert [x]
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry [ ]
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White [x]
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom [ ]
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [x]
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton [ ]
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad [x]
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery [x]
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks [ ]
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams [#]
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole [#]
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute [#]
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexander Dumas [ ]
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare [x]
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [x]
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo [x]
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Granted: but you don't know how to land.
I wish it would stop raining before I have to walk outside.
I wish it would stop raining before I have to walk outside.
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Pickles (if the onions are raw)
Food shopping or clothes shopping?
Food shopping or clothes shopping?