On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:30:28 -0500, Goomba wrote:

> blake murphy wrote:
>
>> my father used to say the nuns would rap the kids on the knuckles with a
>> ruler - not a flat ruler, but one of the triangular ones, and they'd use
>> the edge, not the flat part.
>>
>> <http://pro.corbis.com/images/BIC054.jpg?size=572&uid={CA730AEA-4AC7-449B-8769-C4DC650A30BA}>
>>
>> your public-school pal,
>> blake
>
> My father was a senior in high school and taking a physics exam for MIT.
> He scored 98. His HS physics teacher cuffed him for not scoring 100.
> (he was accepted to MIT anyway...lol) So it wasn't just the nuns, even
> the public school teachers could have a lil fun.....
> Goomba

to do that well, my teacher would have had to pistol-whip me.

your pal,
blake