Comments on: Local News 01.09.08 http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/11639 Minneapolis + St. Paul Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:28:20 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: yoder http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/11639#comment-135500 yoder Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:17:52 +0000 #comment-135500 "physical mishandling" kind of lends itself to all sorts of euphemisms. '<em>While physically mishandling said 9 year old girl, he then misplaced her teeth.</em>'<br /> <br /> "<strong>But your honor, I didn't abuse the little girl, I just mishandled her and misplaced some stuff. I mean, how am I s'posed to know a little girl's skin rips and bones break so easily. And darned if I know how her teeth ended up on the floor. We misplaced them. Maybe little girls should come with warnin' labels and instructions, then I won't be so likely to mishandle and misplace stuff again.</strong>"<br /> <br /> Good defense. “physical mishandling” kind of lends itself to all sorts of euphemisms. ‘While physically mishandling said 9 year old girl, he then misplaced her teeth.‘

“But your honor, I didn’t abuse the little girl, I just mishandled her and misplaced some stuff. I mean, how am I s’posed to know a little girl’s skin rips and bones break so easily. And darned if I know how her teeth ended up on the floor. We misplaced them. Maybe little girls should come with warnin’ labels and instructions, then I won’t be so likely to mishandle and misplace stuff again.“

Good defense.

]]> By: ranty http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/11639#comment-135498 ranty Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:19:11 +0000 #comment-135498 What kind of crazy euphemism is "physical mishandling?" What kind of crazy euphemism is “physical mishandling?”

]]> By: msparber http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/11639#comment-135495 msparber Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:18:57 +0000 #comment-135495 That's the one. That’s the one.

]]> By: Kevin http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/11639#comment-135494 Kevin Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:15:24 +0000 #comment-135494 Max,<br /> <br /> Love the VC Andrews reference. Flowers in the Attic? Max,

Love the VC Andrews reference. Flowers in the Attic?

]]> By: msparber http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/11639#comment-135485 msparber Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:13:32 +0000 #comment-135485 <em>Condescend much? Maybe it's the gas fumes.</em><br /> <br /> Or maybe it's a lack of patience for anonymous commentors who have little to offer but sarcastic stabs rather than actual conversation. Condescend much? Maybe it’s the gas fumes.

Or maybe it’s a lack of patience for anonymous commentors who have little to offer but sarcastic stabs rather than actual conversation.

]]> By: Lunch! http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/11639#comment-135477 Lunch! Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:20:39 +0000 #comment-135477 RE: drink Why isn't there a scheduled age difference for small beer, strong beer or wine and distilled spirits? <br /> <br /> I'll make the foolish assumption, that if kids come from stable homes, their parents could model good behavior and introduce their adolescent children to responsible consumption patterns in public settings. This would be preferable to the power hour alcohol related fatalities, neo-prohibitionism and nanny state nonsense of our current system. Think of the children... RE: drink Why isn’t there a scheduled age difference for small beer, strong beer or wine and distilled spirits?

I’ll make the foolish assumption, that if kids come from stable homes, their parents could model good behavior and introduce their adolescent children to responsible consumption patterns in public settings. This would be preferable to the power hour alcohol related fatalities, neo-prohibitionism and nanny state nonsense of our current system. Think of the children…

]]> By: ericam http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/11639#comment-135475 ericam Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:12:18 +0000 #comment-135475 <em>Well, frankly, if teachers and parents think that having kids sign an honor code to make them refrain from drinking, cheating, having sex after 12, they're really kidding themselves. It's not surprizing that kids are having beer bashes, it's just surprizing that they'd be dumb enough to pose for digital pictures.</em><br /> <br /> We all know abstinence-only education does not fix the problem.<br /> <br /> You would think by now that no one is surprised that a) kids do this, b) the pictures show up online, and c) somebody rats 'em out. Well, frankly, if teachers and parents think that having kids sign an honor code to make them refrain from drinking, cheating, having sex after 12, they’re really kidding themselves. It’s not surprizing that kids are having beer bashes, it’s just surprizing that they’d be dumb enough to pose for digital pictures.

We all know abstinence-only education does not fix the problem.

You would think by now that no one is surprised that a) kids do this, b) the pictures show up online, and c) somebody rats ‘em out.

]]> By: kevin http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/11639#comment-135473 kevin Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:10:08 +0000 #comment-135473 I don't know about that, alie. Before I left for college, I bet my parents a plane ticket anywhere in the country that I wouldn't be married or engaged when I graduated college. Needless to say, I won the bet. (Haven't yet cashed it in though.) I don’t know about that, alie. Before I left for college, I bet my parents a plane ticket anywhere in the country that I wouldn’t be married or engaged when I graduated college. Needless to say, I won the bet. (Haven’t yet cashed it in though.)

]]> By: aliecat http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/11639#comment-135464 aliecat Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:59:56 +0000 #comment-135464 Well, frankly, if teachers and parents think that having kids sign an honor code to make them refrain from drinking, cheating, having sex after 12, they're really kidding themselves. It's not surprizing that kids are having beer bashes, it's just surprizing that they'd be dumb enough to pose for digital pictures.<br /> <br /> Oh, and Max is always condescending...it's a part of his charm. Well, frankly, if teachers and parents think that having kids sign an honor code to make them refrain from drinking, cheating, having sex after 12, they’re really kidding themselves. It’s not surprizing that kids are having beer bashes, it’s just surprizing that they’d be dumb enough to pose for digital pictures.

Oh, and Max is always condescending…it’s a part of his charm.

]]> By: Lunch! http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/11639#comment-135461 Lunch! Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:56:16 +0000 #comment-135461 re: High School drinkers In my day any kid who was at all interested in a scholarship was informed by Coach that their chances would evaporate if they were caught doing anything untoward at all. And in prep school, our deans made a point of informing us that those of us on scholarship would forfeit it if we got in trouble. It created a stupid parallel system of rich kids misbehaving and poor kids getting really devious. re: High School drinkers In my day any kid who was at all interested in a scholarship was informed by Coach that their chances would evaporate if they were caught doing anything untoward at all. And in prep school, our deans made a point of informing us that those of us on scholarship would forfeit it if we got in trouble. It created a stupid parallel system of rich kids misbehaving and poor kids getting really devious.

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