Jungle gyms and monkey bars

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Fri May 4 02:55:19 UTC 2012


On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
> There was a time when it sounded odd to me even when applied to high-school
> grounds. It got odder when it hit the elementary schools.

I didn't know that high schools could have campuses till I moved to
California, in my 20's. As for grade schools… Well, I'm leaving that
one alone. Of course, now that a trade-school certificate of
completion is a "college degree"…

I don't want to think about it.
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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