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It was good episode, and the Tiffanny thing was hilarious... so... you... want....it was classic. And it looked like rashes run in the Morgendorffer bloodlines, cuz Quinn got one. One more thing, how come Trent wasn'y oblivious to the fact that they'd embarass Daria??? Smells like something someone will point out a hundred times and right forty fanfics about....

Yup... and the owner going on and on about nepotism and then just letting Kevin goof up left and right was fun too... :)

And I didn't realize that Tiffany talked _that_ slowly.

Trent _didn't know_ - Jane did and was trying to keep him away. :) He seemed to know she _was_ embarrased though when he left - going from being hypnotised about nuts to wanting a burger in short order.

• Chad

I assumed that was her questionable literacy skills. I think Lawndale's making an excellent poster-school for educational reform with Tiffany and Kevin being nearly illiterate.

That and he was pretty oblivious, period. Being up all night can do that to a person.

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It's not just Lawndale. How many people have you encountered who read like that? Don't you remember being forced to sit in class while the teacher had someone read something? And they read so painfully slowly, stumbling over the simplest words, that you just wanted to SCREAM?! (Not just high school, I remember first grade was that way too.) Don't you remember squirming just like Daria, wanting to just be allowed to read it yourself? An absolutely CLASSIC scene.

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Ok, why SHOULD Daria have been embarrassed by having Trent learn she was working at a nut stand? There's nothing dishonorable at that, except maybe that stupid hat. Of course we all know that teenage girls get embarrassed at the silliest, most trivial, things (the older ones do as well.) I can imagine that Trent, upon discovering that Daria was working there might have said something like, "cool."

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Like that scene in Dumb and Dumber where Carey's character stumbles over the simplest of words (like "the") while reading a newspaper. As far as reading out loud in class (I've never really seen the use -- except to pass the time or to have someone besides the teacher talking), I remember in about 5th or 6th grade having to read something out loud when I couldn't stop laughing for some reason. I tired to compose myself but just couldn't stop laughing. The teacher had to get someone else to read because it got that bad (the laughter hijacked my brain). Huh Huh Huh... (oh no, not again) Huh Huh Huh...

hah, i was always one of the slow ones. i was too nervous after about yr5 to be able to read in front of a class properly anyhow.

ahh, that always happened to me when i had to speak on camera.. my primary school was very into giving you vague instructions as to what to do, and sending you off in small groups to get on with it unsupervised. on several occasions we had to make videos of stuff (presentations, plays, whatever) and i was never able to do this without laughing. of course, it didn't help on one occasion when another in my group found a hand puppet thing, and started waving it about off-camera every time i was trying to say something.. lol...

When we did that in like elementary school I was just like "OK, I'm gonna ignore that noise and read this myself" and get done with it while they were still at the beginning and just be like "What do I do now?" of course when we had independent-type reading I'd read it so fast that the teacher wouldn't believe I'd read it and would make me do the questions.

Ah, the punishment's of being a good reader. C'est la vie...

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Dagny Scott wrote:

Hey, you just described nearly *exactly* my entire past educational experience in all English and social studies classes. We read a lot of plays in my English class this last year, and of course the teacher always had a few kids take on the roles... these often dragged on for several days... inevitably I'd have the damned thing read by halfway through the first day. Luckily I've always got a handy dandy novel on hand for just such an occasion. The worst part about the out loud play reading is that they are excellent works of literature, and these stumbling readers utterly mangle them. Oh yes, and luckily, my teachers generally believed me when it came to whether or not I'd read it. I can see how irritating it'd be if they didn't...

(( By the way, I absolutely love this quote. :-) ))

--J.

i hated it when the teacher got people in the class to read characters' parts out loud when we studied plays. i hated how she always picked this girl who thought she was a really really amazing actress (not bad, admittedly, but not as good as she thought - it'd be damn near impossible to be *that* good) who would put on a posh voice for a posh character and a regional accent of some kind for a poor character <lol>, and would always *over-dramatise* the whole thing... fucking annoying. the teacher loved her because... well they could have been clones. so it was almost as bad when the teacher (with her squeaky voice and all) read stuff out. i hated english class.

Maybe Tiffany has a speech impediment. I had a really bad stammer when I was younger and had to go to a speech therapist who encouraged me to. speak. very. slowly. instead. of. tripping. over. my. words. It seemed to work for me and now I speak normally. But I used to dread having to read out loud (I can read really fast in my head) 'cause my English teacher would stop me a couple of sentences in and get someone else to carry on. Maybe our favourite two-faced member of the fashion club will grow out of it, given time. Or else she really does have learning skills and Waif doesn't count as challenging reading matter.

Sarra

when i was in 11th grade, i had this english teacher who gave assignments where is you read the cliffs, you would get an "a", but if you actually read the text for MEANING and not for stupid little details (like what they list in cliffs), the assignments wewre damn near impossible. i think cliffs notes should be banned. Saerah "Are we going to the same place? if so, can I come?" ~ Eddie Vedder

"The Almighty thinks he can get me out of this, but he's pretty sure you're fucked." ~Stephen (from Braveheart)

I found this important with novels, as well, so as to read them BEFORE I got the teacher's messed up interpretations. I was very glad Of Mice and Men was short so I could do that....

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Ragnar Danneskjold ... oops, I mean Dagny, said:

It's about sex, right? EVERYTHING's about sex, isn't it?

Ooh, think someone just possessed my mind ... ;-)

Sincerely Yours, Jordan

"All the Universe or Nothingness ... that is the question. Which shall it be?" (H. G. Wells)

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If only I could have been so clever. I'd relieve the boredom in any number of ways, drawing pictures of cars or other interesting inventions, being lost in thought, counting the cracks in the ceiling, or reading a chapter or two ahead in the textbook. Of course when I'm reading I'm lost in my own little world, oblivious to anything else going on. The next thing I notice is the teacher standing over me giving me a reaming for not being up with the class. School consists of endless hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror. I always considered it pretty much a waste of time that could have been better spent at home in "mah laborrr-a-tory." <Dexter voice> <G> Finally you just give up, say to hell with it all, and don't even bother trying to be a good student. I really don't understand how anyone gets anything out of it. Probably intended to be training for those boring hours on the assembly line.

Once (well twice actually, as I'll reveal) in a high school history class, the teacher announced one day that we were going to see a film strip. For those younger readers who are unfamiliar with this technology, it's a 35mm roll of still pictures projected on the screen. Yeah, I know, it's weird to see pictures projected on a screen instead of a CRT but that's the way they did things back when dinosaurs ruled the earth. They had to turn off the lights so the teacher had a harder time seeing that no one was paying attention. Anyway, there were subtitles and the teacher would assign a student to read the subtitles, for the benefit of those of us who were too dumb to read for ourselves by this stage of our education. On this day the teacher assigned a girl to read and it was almost as painful as Tiffany reading that sheet to Daria. Then she got to a particular word, an easy word (well, I knew it anyway), and stumbled over it until the teacher gave it to her. Sheer torture. So went the lesson. Next class, the teacher announced a film strip-again. Turned out to be exactly the same one. Then he assigned someone to read it. Turned out to be exactly the same student. She read to the exact same point, stopped at the exact same word, and again couldn't guess what the word was. The teacher had to give her the word again. THE VERY SAME WORD-TWICE! I could forgive, with some incredulity, not knowing this word once, but to stumble over the same word in two successive classes? I would have thought one time would have made a sufficient impression. Am I being too intolerant or something? Or is this what is optimistically referred to as the "learning process"? It's been years since this happened and I'm still amazed.

"R. K. Henry" wrote:

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Well, the girl just might've been dyslexic. Then again, she might've been thick-- you really can't tell based on one filmstrip.

BEEP!

But your reminiscence about filmstrips gave me a warm feeling.

BEEP!

I remember watching all of the members of the AV Squad fight for the right to turn the projector every time the cassette made that

BEEP!

sound. ;-) I guess you were stuck with one of the filmstrips the school bought sans tape because they were feeling cheap that day. Oh, well.

BEEP!

rich.

Jake: The horror, the *horror* ...

Yep, that's meee and school's are extremely factory-ish with the bells and schedules and all, and they rounded up the kids so they didn't work in the factories-- so the idea of public schools wasn't education but keeping people in line. I think you can still see this, although they've added the superior goal of "winning stuff" i.e. sports to the mix. Education, however, is still hard to be found.

Hell, I'm gonna be a high school senior THIS year and I've watched filmstrips. In seventh and eighth grade in "Life Skills" when we weren't doing crosswords and word searches (which I guess are life skills...) we watched filmstrips on Vitamins and a filmstrip on how to operate a microwave...

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Dagnia Scotus said:

The current public school system was created around the late 19th century with the premise that it would prepare lower-class students for factory labor. This may be why it is so woefully inadequate for modern purposes. The tacking of 1960's and 70's left-wing idealism atop this superstructure hasn't improved the system any, merely inflicted the worst features of both capitalism and socialism upon the victi ... I mean, "students".

Yeah, apparently fielding winning sports teams is supposed to help the students because ... um ... because ... well you see they ... and they ... hmm.

They should just sell billboard space on the outside of the school buildings to raise revenues. It would work as well as sports, and it would do less damage to the educational system.

Um ... how exactly do you FAIL to operate a microwave in any serious way, short of sticking metal into it? And isn't that pretty much covered in one line, "don't stick metal into the microwave?"

Sincerely Yours, Jordan

"All the Universe or Nothingness ... that is the question. Which shall it be?" (H. G. Wells)

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That should cover it. Of course, it'll have to repeated over and over for the 'slow' kids.

That was my biggest problem with elementary school. Everything is repeated until nearly everyone understands. Since I was allegedly 'gifted,' I picked up on things before they were repeated and by the time they were repeated the 10th time, they were hardwired into my brain and I was bored to tears.

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Well, I wasn't "gifted", per se, but I had the same problem in that I picked up on things a lot faster than most of the others. In fact I was given plenty of extra credit assignments so I'd have something to do when I was, in fact, bored to death in class (in fact, I was reading SCIENCE books in 1st grade). That continued until 9th grade when I moved up to high school and was able to get into the more challenging stuff.

Enough of tooting my own horn...

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Li: When the public eye is turned on our little corner of the universe, how do we want to look? Daria: Blecch. Li: Blecch? Daria: Giant eyeballs... creepy.

You've *got* to be able to toot your own horn.

Unless you're lucky enough to have someone to toot it for you. ;)

Mike Quinn wrote:

My big problem in elementary school (and even today) was my impatience with the other kids-- I always have been a quick study, and being stuck in a classroom full of deadheads drove me spare. I guess it doesn't help your social standing with dullard-- I means classmates when you call them idiots right to their face. ;-) Of course, moving every few years kinda made it easier to start afresh.

But yeah, I could seriously empathize with Daria's foot tapping at Tiffany... oh, God, can I ever empathize!

rich.

Quinn: I can't be a brain! My friends will hate me!

i hated having to do newton's laws in physics. they aren't even correct. it was revealed to the class at the end of the unit that everything we had been taught was wrong, which i already knew. and then the teacher showed us the correct way to do it (because he's a good teacher and actually enjoys talking about physics), and everyone went "uhh? what? oh no, i'm confused, it's so difficult" etc. my science class was so thick. there was one girl in it who couldn't even understand that "red shift" thing, even after the teacher had spent an entire lesson explaining it to her.

Alli said:

Well, they're good approximations of reality in spaces of normal geometries, to get technical ...

Yeah, well it wouldn't work for most people to start learning relativity and quantum mechanics before they learn momentum and thermodynamics. I don't know that even I would have liked to learn physics that way.

Not even after the teacher did the train whistle example of a Doppler shift? Dear me ... :)

Sincerely Yours, Jordan

"All the Universe or Nothingness ... that is the question. Which shall it be?" (H. G. Wells)

Hey don't knock it, that means you could cook my dinner for me.

-Shez.

And could have since I was 5...

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<snip>

incidentally, you know what really pisses me off? in history class, when we're being shown a video about the Holocaust or something, and there's these whores at the back of the class, re-applying their make-up and talking about who is supposed to have shagged who*, or whatever.

*fwiw one of the girls in question is utterly *convinced* i have sex with a male friend of mine on a regular basis. :/

Maybe that's because you always look wasted, like you just emerged from a session in the boiler room?

-Shez.

haha, perhaps, but *he* doesn't, so i don't see how she made that connection.. she seemed to be basing her theory on... err having seen us in town together on several occasions... ummm.. ???

Alli said:

Well, you know ... in town ... TOGETHER ... nudge nudge, wink wink, wink's as good as a nudge to the wise! ... :)

Sincerely Yours, Jordan

"All the Universe or Nothingness ... that is the question. Which shall it be?" (H. G. Wells)

That's called punishment for being smart. Which I am painfully familiar with.

Jess "Morgendorfer"

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I can remember trying to read aloud to the tune of the Lone Ranger theme. Used to annoy the hell out of the teachers.

But getting back to Once upon a nut...... I don't think someone as all out dumb as kevin would last long in the real world. Quin's level of stupidity in this episode is believable, but Kevin has gone over the top. And did anyone else think Helen was rude to assume Jane would need a lawyer for "a maternity suite"? SHEESH! All in all a great episode!

On Fri, 09 Jul 1999 05:45:45 GMT, crazy nutso wrote:

I didn't think it was at all rude... because I don't recall maternity ever being mentioned. :-) (I recall *criminal*, but no maternity.)

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In first grade/junior school, it's not too bad, as it's kind of expected that the reading ability at that age won't be that great.

Once you hit High School, however, there are NO excuses. I still remember a painful reading attempt by one guy of 15 or so, that really was just like Tiffany's.

i read pretty slowly when reading out loud. i can *read* well, it's the *speaking coherently* bit i have difficulties with..

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This has been driving me nuts ever since I watched the ep. Just what type of critter are those hats suppose to be? A chipmonk, a beaver, what?

A squirrel, I think. Not bad since I haven't seen the ep. (:P) But squirrel ---> Nut, so.....

"Greg Pallis" wrote:

I'm thinking squirrel, too. Beavers don't really like nuts. (Unless, of course, the commercial is right, and they do?) ;-)

rich.

"Stop the bus! Stop the bus!" -- Chester

Heh. I add my name to the list of people driven crazy by abysmally slow readers. I used to read ahead instead of paying attention... sometimes I'd have lost track of where the class was in the book by the time it came my turn to read. Oops. :]

Tiffany's a terribly slow reader, but she's not as utterly clueless as Kevin. Speaking of whom... Brittany sure wasn't pleased at Kevin's future prospects! These two drive me nuts the way they go back and forth about each other... compare "College Board" where they both fantasize about ditching the other, to "Daria Dance Party" where they both secretly can't stand to be apart...

What ARE y'all on about?? Of course Trent knew -- after Kevin all but screamed Daria's name in his ear. He's just a nice enough guy to spare Daria the embarrassment of having to present herself in that utterly ridiculous costume. It was actually rather sweet of him, IMO. Jesse, OTOH, really did seem oblivious -- "I thought you wanted peanuts!" or something along those lines.

What Trent WAS oblivious to was Jane's little none-too-subtle attempts at distraction... she can read him like a book, apparently ("Pierce Me") but not vice versa!

That species mates for life.

Jess "Morgendorfer"

Daria: Do you believe everything adults tell you? Gupty Kids: Yes Daria: What if 2 adults tell you totally opposite things?

At my old HS, I was in the AP english program and was basically shielded from the more "challenged" readers, except for one particular boy was a painfully slow reader and a particularly awful writer. He belonged in the lowest english class, but because his daddy was a teacher in the district, he was placed in the AP class. Although, I do have to give him credit, he did pass Mr. Lavelle's senior class. (Very difficult our grades were based on 6 papers and a test each semester and we also read 23 novels/great works of world literature)

Prindora

haha, i have done that many times.

incidentally: is it me, or is some of the poetry they make you study at school just utter CRAP?

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Some of it was, John Betjemen springs to mind but some poets that I discovered in my GCSE English class changed my life like Louis McNiece, Sylvia Plath, WH Auden, ee cummings, Stevie Smith, Philip Larkin.

I think I was lucky 'cause I had an English teacher who ignored my sulky exterior and decided to make me her cause. She even lent me her own personal books of Sylvia Plath biographies and stuff. I wonder what ever happened to Miss Hill. Daria could do with a teacher like that...

Sarra

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[email] wrote:

??!!? why didn't we do plath at school??!? i demand to know!! :)

we have to do all this stuff that IS crap, but uses lots of similes and metaphors and alliteration and imagery and so on, so most of it sounds really clich�d, but it's good for teaching idiots what enjambment is. annoying.

me too lol...

I have to give my opinion on this, though I know little about this thread other than the quick glimpses I've given to the posts thus far while trying to catch up with the group.

I don't know about the lot of you yet, but in high school I was put into the toughest classes routinely. I have a learning disability called ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder). Combine the two and you've got one happy camper -- until AP English senior year, where the class went a bit *too* fast. I remember senior year as being a blur of books, all of which seemed to conspire against me as their words meant little to me and their lessons stuck to me like an egg sticks to a Teflon pan. This was a major panic attack time for me and I nearly had a nervous breakdown before graduation.

Then again I didn't go to public school but rather an all-girls' Catholic high school....

Gotta run,

Diane

endless, nameless wrote:

I have kind of the opposite problem It drives me mad how fast my brother reads. Not aloud I mean, but messages on the computer screen. He always scrolls down when I'm only halfway through, and when I complain, I earn myself only stupid remarks.

Calling it crap is probably a bit too hard. Being a writer of poems myself I know that the author usually feels very strongly about the thoughts he lays out in his poems. So they're not crap per se. The crap is being forced to read and analyse the poems someone else has written. MSB

One observation I'll make after rewatching Saturday's showing:

That aptitude test is idiotic. I'm generally loath to criticize the finest cartoon, nay the finest TV show in broadcasting but I'm afraid on this point they've dropped the ball.

Kevin might be barely qualified as a pump jockey but I doubt any aptitude test would ever be so specific. Of course when is the last time you EVER saw anyone pump gas into any but their own car? An obsolete job description.

Jane as an accountant? Well, that is plausible considering how she blew off the test. The straight "C" average in math will no doubt pay off.

But Quinn as a neck model? How could ANY test come to that conclusion?

And Daria as a mortician? Because she has poor social skills? That's absolutely idiotic. A mortician, or as they seem to prefer to call themselves these days, funeral director, needs BETTER social skills than most. The customer isn't the stiff in the back room, it's the people crying into their hankies in your office. You'll need to muster your very best salesmanship to soothe their pain and fast-talk them into buying a box and a hole in the ground that'll cost more than their total net worth. That's not Daria. Even if she had the skill she'd have ethical concerns.

They needed a device to get Daria into an entry-level job. I'd always figured Helen would eventually force Daria to get a job, for pretty much the very reasons given in the show, and even worked briefly on a fanfic on the subject before scrapping it (as I always do). This particular device could have been developed just a little better. Of course the rest of the show was perfect so I'll give them a by on this weak spot. The scene with Tiffany makes up for it.

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Not to nitpick, but here in the state of Oregon it seems people can't be trusted to pump their own gas. It's illegal for anyone but a "Service Technician" (haha) to pump gas into your car. I always found it amusing (and somewhat frightening) that the law says some pimply faced high school dropout is more qualified to pump my gas than I am.

BTW, I agree with your points on the rest of the post--the test was a more than a bit contrived. However, I was happy to turn on my suspension of disbelief for a few moments and thoroughly enjoyed the episode. :-)

--J.

In New Jersey self-serve gas stations are not allowed by law. You might think this would cause prices to be higher because of the expense of hiring pump jockeys, but actually the price is lower than over the bridges in Pennsylvania.

Jeg7777 wrote in message news:[email]... [spoiler space removed]

Petrol prices seem to have little relationship to the merchant's costs.

Two of the UK's biggest refineries are on our doorstep, but does that mean cheaper petrol? No.

If you fill up at the petrol station opposite the refinery, you'll pay about 60p (about $1) more for every tank of fuel than if you were filling up over the bridge in Hull, or in, say, Derby, despite the latter being about 100 miles from the refinery. It seems that in petrol retailing, the law of supply and demand sweeps all before it.

Martin.

Jeg7777 wrote:

Either way, I simply detest the idea of some stranger pumping gas into my car. It makes me feel dirty. You know, the baaad kind of dirty.

As for the test, it appeared to me that it was *supposed* to be a little outrageous-- "You're using satire, aren't you?" ;-)

As an aside, am I the only person that remembers taking those kinds of tests, only to find out that I'm equally qualified to be either an Able Seaman (whatever that is) or a Urologist (or 100 other things totally unrelated)? (Biological metaphor: Icky.) :)

I thought it was kinda funny that Jane, who has a straight C math average, should be told she'd make a great accountant because she chose straight Cs for the answer. I like that sort of humor.

Anyway, it's true-- no test can tell you whether you have the sternocleidomastoids to be a top-notch neck model-- that's something you've gotta be born with-- but that's the joke...

rich.

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paperpusher wrote:

I still like Rita Rudner's story of having to refill her car's gas tank while dressed in a pink cocktail dress. "I felt like the Gas Fairy." ;-{)>

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[email] asks:

Oh no, I remember. Way back in time when I went to high school (back in the time when you had to walk 50 miles, barefoot, in 10 foot snow drifts, uphill, each way) I was introduced to these tests in guidance class. They blew me away. I loved to skew the results. Gave my counselor fits. On the one to see what kind of job we might like I kept asking why there was no place to mark down lying in a hammock drinking the beer that we stole from our dads. I guess being a bum wasn't an option.

The thugs I ran with decided to make up our own test, to see what type of criminal we would become. I was very proud of myself, as it looked like I was going to turn out to be a deranged cereal killer, "Take that, Frosted Flakes, eat lead!".

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The only test I'm familiar with is the Differential Aptitude Test. All it reported was scores and percentiles on various skills. Verbal was fairly low, as you've probably already noted; and math was very low, probably due to the sterling instruction I'd received over the years, or maybe a consequence of low IQ. But the spatial relationships and mechanical ability were excellent. Yeah, I know how that works. So I can create an object in the CAD workstation in my head and manipulate it any way I like, but without the math that's about all I can do. It does make instrument flying easy. I guess pump jocky might be a good career choice but since, as I've noted, that seems to be a fading profession. I'll just have to find a new dream.

Of course maybe all isn't lost. On the ACT test the English and Math scores were significantly better, though still somewhat low but the English was good enough to get me into College AP English and overall I got a pretty good score. If it had been one point higher I could have used it to get into Mensa (they'll accept ACTs of this vintage). I guess I'll just have to take the test.

Good idea. We really need to do something about all the flakes running around these days, frosted and unfrosted.