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awwwwwwww The New Yorker Cover (Original Post) kpete Aug 2012 OP
tar and feathering a little puppy Care Acutely Aug 2012 #1
Me too Xyzse Aug 2012 #4
You forgot montanacowboy Aug 2012 #5
I also read something about walking a blind instructor into a door? Care Acutely Aug 2012 #7
That mountain is Half Dome, in Yosemite. It's in California. n/t CaliforniaPeggy Aug 2012 #8
Here's a WaPo piece on the bullying, including the blind teacher Moosepoop Aug 2012 #11
That's hideous. Care Acutely Sep 2012 #13
we had a blind principal at our Jr. High. and NO ONE ever pranked the guy. progressivebydesign Sep 2012 #14
Tarring and feathering, if I'm not mistaken, a yellow dog? Spider Jerusalem Aug 2012 #6
You are probably right. Curmudgeoness Aug 2012 #12
The tar helps them stick better to the roof of the car, tblue37 Aug 2012 #9
lol. Liberal_in_LA Aug 2012 #2
Too funny, with the exception of the avebury Aug 2012 #3
With this theme song: EC Aug 2012 #10
How could they leave out Clint... pinboy3niner Sep 2012 #15

Xyzse

(8,217 posts)
4. Me too
Fri Aug 31, 2012, 04:07 PM
Aug 2012

From a guy who thinks:
- it is good fun to impersonate police to scare people.
- no one would remember pinning some guy down and cutting their hair.
- placing a dog on top of the roof of a car.

Care Acutely

(1,370 posts)
7. I also read something about walking a blind instructor into a door?
Fri Aug 31, 2012, 04:53 PM
Aug 2012

but it didn't have a link. Would like to know more about that one.

Hateful, unfunny bastard he is.

On a side note - what mountain graces your profile pic? I want to move to the Kalispell area in a couple of years. I fell in love with Montana, deep and hard.

Moosepoop

(1,920 posts)
11. Here's a WaPo piece on the bullying, including the blind teacher
Fri Aug 31, 2012, 06:39 PM
Aug 2012
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mitt-romneys-prep-school-classmates-recall-pranks-but-also-troubling-incidents/2012/05/10/gIQA3WOKFU_story_2.html


One venerable English teacher, Carl G. Wonn­berger, nicknamed “the Bat” for his diminished eyesight, was known to walk into the trophy case and apologize, step into wastepaper baskets and stare blindly as students slipped out the back of the room to smoke by the open windows. Once, several students remembered the time pranksters propped up the back axle of Wonnberger’s Volkswagen Beetle with two-by-fours and watched, laughing from the windows, as the unwitting teacher slammed the gas pedal with his wheels spinning in the air.

As an underclassman, Romney accompanied Wonnberger and Pierce Getsinger, another student, from the second floor of the main academic building to the library to retrieve a book the two boys needed. According to Getsinger, Romney opened a first set of doors for Wonnberger, but then at the next set, with other students around, he swept his hand forward, bidding the teacher into a closed door. Wonnberger walked right into it and Getsinger said Romney giggled hysterically as the teacher shrugged it off as another of life’s indignities.

progressivebydesign

(19,458 posts)
14. we had a blind principal at our Jr. High. and NO ONE ever pranked the guy.
Sat Sep 1, 2012, 12:48 AM
Sep 2012

There were the jokes "watch out Mr. Schmidt will see you!" but no one was ever that cruel. We helped him out, mostly. Sheesh what a jerk romney is.

 

Spider Jerusalem

(21,786 posts)
6. Tarring and feathering, if I'm not mistaken, a yellow dog?
Fri Aug 31, 2012, 04:37 PM
Aug 2012

As in "yellow dog Democrat", possibly? (Or perhaps I'm looking for too much subtlety.)

tblue37

(65,328 posts)
9. The tar helps them stick better to the roof of the car,
Fri Aug 31, 2012, 06:37 PM
Aug 2012

and the feathers look nice blowin' in the wind.

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