Anyone else here been wacked with a ruler by a Nun...

[AmyStrange]

Now having an Aunt as a Nun and having here whack you with a ruler. There's something just totally weird about that whole concept, but even weirder is that my two Aunts (that were Nuns) used to come home from the Nunery (I haven't a clue what it's really called) Rectory or whatever, and smoke and drink like sailors home on leave. Just weird, but that's my family for ya. We were in the long run a fun group of people though.

Anyway, Nuns, anyone ever been whacked with a ruler by a Nun or even just went to a Parochial (sp?) school?

Some of it was just like it was in the movie "Blues Brothers" and alot of it was ok and some of it fun and some of it was just weird. Especially since I stayed back in the First Grade and my sister caught up with me. They say it was because I couldn't read, but I remember vivid memories of running screaming out of the room a few times.

I couldn't get away with anything 'cause they would tell my sister to tell my Memere and Pepere and Dad. I couldn't get away with sh*t.

And if that wasn't enough, one of my Aunts was in the same order as the Nuns that taught us in Grammar School and High School and they KNEW MY AUNT so I would get it from all sides. Plus I lived in a SMALL town!!! You could walk from one side to the other in about an hour or hour and a half.

And despite all of that, I have fond memories of my youth.

Anyway thanx for reading all this cr*p,

Dave (AmyStrange.com)
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[ForrestGump]

1. I know some people who probably

dream of being whacked with a ruler by a nun.

There are some disturbed individuals out there. Quite a few of them have DU membership, too.

[redwitch]

4. my husband is one of those!

Anyway he claims he was wacked by nuns at his parochial school and seems to look back on it fondly. I can't tell if he means it, though 3 sided rulers are exciting to him (his nuns weapon of choice). :spank:

[ForrestGump]

15. My goodness

Well, I hope that you get to use the old three-sided on him soon, and use it well. The moon's pretty full, you know..... :-)

[AmyStrange]

5. Where did you get that Forrest Gum picture?!

That's a scream I luv it.

Dave (AmyStrange.com)

[ForrestGump]

16. I made it all by m'se'f

Salma told me to!

[Maple]

2. Anyone

anywhere NEAR a nun has been whacked with a ruler.

[AmyStrange]

9. hahahahaha

that's sooo funny.

Dave (AmyStrange.com)

[buddhamama]

58. not me

i went to catholic school, raised quite a bit of hell there too and was never smacked by a ruler or anything else for that matter.

[sister_rosa_refried]

64. Must have been a quick little scamp!

Sister would have liked you.

[buddhamama]

68. ahh thanks

i think i would have liked you too.

i did run out of school once. we had a substitute teacher that day and she was pissing me off. as punishment for something i had done earlier in the day, she made me stand in the corner and wouldn't let me use the bathroom(i was in the eighth grade and didn't take kindly to being treated like a five yr old) so i ran out the door and went home.

the Prinicipal(a Nun) called my house and asked that i come back.
i went and we had a nice chat in her office. no ruler no suspension,nothing.

[Submariner]

3. Whacked over the knuckles and on forehead with ruler

Gum stuck in my hair for chewing gum, and when they really got pissed, they would tie our hands to the back of the chair and slap us silly. Usually no worse than a nose bleed. Sister Perpetual Agony was a bitch!

[AmyStrange]

7. Sister Perpetual Agony

that name sounds sooooo familiar,

Dave (AmyStrange.com)

[redwitch]

8. wow! I didn't know

you went to Our Lady of Constant Bingo too!!!!

[Karenina]

73. Hey Submariner, check this...

I got whacked on the knuckles by Ms. Goldstein, an 80+ "piano minor" teacher at the conservatory I attended. She ALWAYS wore black and chain-smoked unfiltered Camels. Always knew when it was coming because she'd say "The PIANIST..." then WHACK!!! on the butt if I was slouching or on the knuckles if the hand position was not correct. WHAT FUN!!!

[Sushi_lover]

6. Sister Joseph Ann. 1st grade teacher.

Not traumatic at all when she did it. No biggie.

But the first time I ever played kick-ball I ran to 2nd base when there was already a kid on it. She was the umpire and swooped down on me in full habit with the big winged hat "YOU"RE OUT!!!!" and yanked her thumb so hard I thought she was gonna hit me. I gotta tell ya, I'm scarred for life about that.

[AmyStrange]

13. Oh my sweet jesus...

I can see the image clear as day!!!

Dave (AmyStrange.com)

[SOteric]

10. Years and years of Catholic-run schools

Not a single whack by a nun with a ruler ever took place in my presence.

[AmyStrange]

17. That's what the nuns said too...

it's probably just an urban legend huh?

(Dave AmyStrange.com)

[SOteric]

25. Either that

or the kids in the schools I attended were markedly less annoying than those in others. :7

[TXlib]

57. You're a teacher, now, SOteric...

Ever whack somebody with a ruler? :evilgrin:

:spank:

[SOteric]

74. No students.

O8)

[classics]

11. Oh lord yes.

I went to Catholic elementary school from the 3rd to 6th grades.

Nobody crossed those nuns. They would take kids out in the hall and pray to Jesus for strength while beating them sensless with a big wooden paddle full of holes.

I was unfortunatly on the wrong side of a few of those 'lessons'... I dont know if thats why I'm so twisted now (LOL) but I did learn not to call Sister Grace ugly again.

[AmyStrange]

19. I bow to you...

I said something once to my 8th grade teacher and she walked over to me and slapped in front of everyone in the class. I can't for the life of me remember what it was I said.

Dave (AmyStrange.com)

[classics]

22. Ow she knocked that thought right outta your head ;)

The worst part of the paddling wasnt the paddleing itself but the psychlogical torture leading up to it.

Generally when things got to the point where we ended up out in the hall, other kids were in on it too and there was a nice little line waiting to get paddled.

For some reason at Catholic school the hallways were always dead quiet.. so there we are 4 or 5 of us usually, all in our little uniforms, standing in line, listening to the kid around the corner getting it.

By the time our turn came to go around the corner and get ours we were so afraid she could have just said BOO and half of us would have screamed.

They must teach this stuff to nuns in school, they are too good at it for it be by accident ;)

[caledesi]

12. No, because I was a quiet little girl, but Sister Mary Agnes...

used to hit this kid (still rememeber his name) David McGough on the knuckles w/ the ruler at the pencil sharpener about once a week, every week. He never learned!

[AmyStrange]

20. Yeah we never learn...

hehehe

I never INTENDED to cause trouble. I was an angel I tellya!!!

Dave (AmyStrange.com)

[Hell Hath No Fury]

14. Whacked by a ruler AND paddle!

A veteran of twelve years of Catholic school cheking in here.

In the early years I did get the treatment on a few occassions. One of the funniest memories I have is of Teddy Carl in 1st grade. (Teddy was the kind of kid you knew was going to end up behind bars later in life.) Sr. Diane had lined up all that day's offenders for the paddling. Comes Teddy's turn and she gives him a good whack but all he does is laugh at her. This pisses her off so another whack is administered. And he laughs again. Half a dozen or so whacks later Teddy is still laughing his ass off and Sr. Diane loses it and starts cracking up herself. She was determined to give him just ONE more but the paddle broke in half as she hit him. That was it, she cried "uncle" and Teddy went back to his seat beaming.

We really didn't have paddlings after that. :)

[AmyStrange]

21. What did they call the nunery?

do you know?

We had this one kid who had the ruler (yardstick) break on his knuckles and he was forever known as the kid who broke the Nuns ruler. I never saw no one ever whacked again...

Dave (AmyStrange.com)

[KC21304]

18. I had nuns for 12 years and never saw anyone wacked with a ruler.

I had a nun in 6th grade who was verbally abusive, mainly to one kid, and I hated her. It was her first year of teaching. She was from a neighboring town and her family knew this kids family. Thankfully she didn't last long in the convent. I'm not saying the physical thing never happened but I don't believe most of it.

[AmyStrange]

23. Convent?

Is that what a nunery is called?

You're probably tight about it being blown out of proportion, but I remember getting hit with a ruler and I saw a kid get a whacking with his pants down and I saw a kid have ruler break on his Knuckles and that's what he was known for from that day on...

Dave (AmyStrange.com)

[KC21304]

32. The kid getting paddled with his pants down,

what time frame are we talking here ? Do you mean in the last 40 years ?

Yes, convent is the right term. I don't think nunnery was ever used much in this country.

[AmyStrange]

39. In the 60s (1965 if I remember correctly)...

I'm an old fart...

Dave (AmyStrange.com)

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[Hell Hath No Fury]

69. Convent vs. Nunnery...

I ran into my old Principle at a class reunion a few years ago and she just about kissed me when I corrected a fellow student when she referred to the Sr. as a "nun".

What we dealt with in schools were Sisters. Srs. live in convents and fully participate in society, most often as teachers or counselors.

Nuns are the gals who live in nunneries and whose lives are mostly devoted to prayer and contemplation. They traditionally have very little contact with the outside world.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

70. Convent vs. Nunnery...

I ran into my old Principle at a class reunion a few years ago and she just about kissed me when I corrected a fellow student when she referred to the Sr. as a "nun".

What we dealt with in schools were Sisters. Srs. live in convents and fully participate in society, most often as teachers or counselors.

Nuns are the gals who live in nunneries and whose lives are mostly devoted to prayer and contemplation. They traditionally have very little contact with the outside world.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

71. Convent vs. Nunnery...

I ran into my old Principle at a class reunion a few years ago and she just about kissed me when I corrected a fellow student when she referred to the Sr. as a "nun".

What we dealt with in schools were Sisters. Srs. live in convents and fully participate in society, most often as teachers or counselors.

Nuns are the gals who live in nunneries and whose lives are mostly devoted to prayer and contemplation. They traditionally have very little contact with the outside world.

[northofdenali]

24. I am a smartass, I talk a lot and

I went to Catholic school from kindergarten through 8th grade........

'Nuff said!!

[i have issues]

26. I was constantly whacked with a ruler all

through 3rd and 4th grade. I'm left handed, (the devils hand y'know) so every time i'd start my writing lessons,pencil in my little left hand ...Whack! For 2 years I had to write righty, and subsequently, my hand witting SUCKS as an adult....

[Ivory_Tower]

31. Just saw your post

Righties got whacked too, if the pencil wasn't held JUST SO. Trust me on this one. :)

[AmyStrange]

38. I got wacked when I started using my left hand instead of my right...

"It's the devil's hand," they would screech at me... (ok it was more like a whine than a screech),

Dave (AmyStrange.com)

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[sister_rosa_refried]

65. *sigh*

Oh these "Old School" nuns just fry my holy ass. (or is that ass holy?)

Anywho, Sister herself is a south paw and when I was in the Nunnery m'self I had a run in with an uppity penguin about it. I showed that dame just what "the devils hand" could do. Right across her fat face!

[RetroLounge]

27. Anyone else here been wacked with a Nun by a Ruler...

eom

[AmyStrange]

37. How about with a priest and a nun by a ruler?

Or, something like that?

[AmyStrange]

53. A Nun, a Priest, and a Rabbi walked into a bar...

and the bartender looked up and said in disgust, "What is this? Some kind of joke?"

Heard another version of this joke on the Prairie Home Companion on their annual joke show.

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[Ivory_Tower]

28. Not just rulers....

Let's see.....(12 years of Catholic school here, btw)

When I was learning to write, I had problems holding the pencil "properly", that is, however the hell you normal people hold your pencils. :) It just wasn't comfortable for me. So, for two years or so the nuns would whack me on the knuckles with a ruler for not holding my pencil properly. They finally gave up when I got to fourth grade. Moral: you CAN outlast a nun.

Later, we had a nun who threw her shoes at students who weren't paying attention in class. She also liked pulling our hair, and especially enjoyed when we got haircuts because "short hair hurts more". (I only recently learned that she once beat the shit out of a fellow student so badly that he spent a day in the hospital afterward.)

Another nun threw my brother over a row of desks once. He dented some kid's lunchbox with his head.

The REALLY strange thing is that this didn't seem strange at all to us. We just assumed the nuns were insane.

And yet despite all that, I still call myself Catholic. Go figure.

[AmyStrange]

36. I agree...

it all seemed normal somehow? This is the way Nuns are. I had even more evidence because I saw how my Aunts acted at the convent and how they acted when they were home and this was even more proof to me...

[preciousdove]

29. Bernie "Fingers" Fannon

was a neighborhood friend of my 70 something mother, a few years older than she was. He was an only child but his first cousin Eileen lived with him and they attended Cathedral School. One day in class the Teacher-Nun hit the cousin across the knuckles with a ruler for some minor infraction. Bernie got up and tossed the nun across the room. Eileen said that the nun's habit ended up over her head. He had to go to public school after that. His Dad had left the state and his mom had to work so he was pretty much on his own and made pocket money by bringing empty bottles back to the bootleggers. At age 16 he was one arrest short of heading for the state Reformatory so he decided to reform himself and ended up a pretty decent guy. Eileen married into an Italian mob family. Bernie's only son is now a Baptist minister in another state, (almost killed his grandmother). After attending St John's prep school in St Cloud he went to California became born again. Miss ya Bernie. :spank:

[AmyStrange]

35. ah memories....

do you ever get a little twinkle tear every once in awhile when you think back on those days?

[The Lone Liberal]

30. Some many time I would have like to have "Whacked" a nun.

and I mean that in the best "godfather" meaning.

[AmyStrange]

33. I'll make sure...

that gets highlighted in your files...

Dave (AmyStrange.com)

[The Lone Liberal]

46. Of course, when I changed over to public school in High School

They used to hammer on my butt with a large paddle. SM Principals.

[AmyStrange]

52. SM Principals

now there is a movie title if I ever saw one...

Dave (AmyStrange.com)

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[SheIsNotMyFirstLady]

34. The nuns at the all-girl Catholic high school I attended never whacked us.

But, then again, this was in the late '90s -- physical discipline is a major no-no (not that it would've stopped some). Some of our teachers were nuns, some weren't -- our chemistry teacher was an ex-nun, as a matter of fact. The one thing I always remember is one of the nuns (our religion teacher), Sister Mary Something Or Other, once told us to choose a very good lover for a husband. LOL!!! The look on all the girls faces to be hearing this from a nun ...

[AmyStrange]

40. Sister Mary Something Or Other (hehehehe)

(and you even capitalized the "Something Or Other" part)

Some of them might even as well have been called that, because I can't even remember what the "Something Or Other" was. Somebody once said Sister Mary Joeseph. Is that in a movie somewhere?

Dave (AmyStrange.com)

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[sister_rosa_refried]

66. That was me, dear.

Sister always thinks that a good man is one that can "lay pipe" and I ain't talkin' plumbing either!

[Pert_UK]

41. I was whacked by the ruler of Holland dressed as a nun...does that count?

:evilgrin:

Whacked by someone dressed as a nun? I usually have to pay good money for that sort of thing!

P.

[AmyStrange]

47. My Dad payed through the nose...

back in the 60s (if I remember correctly) he payed 600$ every six months for all three of us. That's a lot of cash for back then.

Dave (AmyStrange.com)

[Lurking Dem]

59. Have I gotta deal for YOU!

:evilgrin:

[BiggJawn]

42. Ruler was nothing! Now, that ball-gag and those nipple clips...

Oh the things that happen "After hours"....

[AmyStrange]

45. Write me a draft...

and have it on my desk in one month and we'll talk biiiiig money!!!

Dave (AmyStrange.com)

[zanana]

43. Memere and Pepere, huh?

I bet you went to a French-Canadian Catholic school. I went to one, too. We had half the day in French, the other half in English. Very confusing. Oh,and yes, vicious nuns. They, more than anyone, turned me away from religion.

[AmyStrange]

44. Yup...

but they didn't do the half day in french thing though, but I did spend an hour a day for nine years learning french. It was the official second language of the school. My whole family were originally from Woonsocket, Rhode Island (a lot of my relatives still live there), and before that Quebec. Living and working in Textile Mill Villages if you know what I mean. I grew up in Plainfield, Connecticut. About 7k at the time. Lots of French Canadiens there. They even French Social Clubs. Loved going to THAT place to throw back a few...

Never met anyone outside of my family who knew what Memere and Pepere was from...

Nice'ta'meecha

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[peterh]

48. No rulers, but there was the occasional pinch….

Right behind the bicep where it really fucking hurts. St. Leo’s in Piedmont, Ca…..we called her TNT, short for ten ton tit…gotta love the adolescent mind….yes, she was big and those pincers hurt.

[AmyStrange]

49. nun nicknames...

I don't remember any damn it. That sucks big time. I think I missed out on something here...

Dave (AmyStrange.com)

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[peterh]

50. Why do I sense a new thread…

:evilgrin:

[AmyStrange]

51. Go ahead I dare you... (n/t)

[Throckmorton]

54. Me. Regularly between 1st and 3th grade.

Then I move to public school, which promply put me in the huose of detention (Boarding Mental Health School).

[catpower2000]

55. Of course, I was raised Catholic...nt

[Bunny]

56. I am a survivor of three years in a Catholic POW camp

(ha ha thanks Bartcop!), and we were smacked by the nuns with rulers as a matter of routine. See, we were born with original sin, and no rod would be spared if it would beat the evil out of us. I was even paddled on the ass in front of the whole third grade class by a demented bat of a nun. Although, truthfully, I did do a nasty thing to a fellow classmate, so maybe I deserved it :evilgrin:

Thankfully, my folks were too poor to continue to send all seven of us to parochial school, so I was liberated after the third grade.

[CO Liberal]

60. My Aunt Was a Sister of St. Kasimir

A Lithuanian order. Back in the '50s and '60s, she was not allowed to travel alone - any time she went home to my grandparents' farm she had to bring another nun with her as a traveling companion. Also, she was not allowed to sleep under the same roof as a man, so when we got together for the holidays my father and I had to sleep over at my uncle's house.

And yes, I was whacked with a ruler by a nun, but not my aunt. When I was in 4th Grade and getting ready for Confirmation, Sister Robert (my Sunday School teacher) asked us to discuss with our families what we were going to take as our confirmation names - she would be aaasking us for those names the following Sunday. While I was discussing this with my family, my older sister made a suggestion that I liked the sound of. So the following Sunday when Sister Robert was walking around the room collecting confirmation names, the following exchange took place:

Sister: "And what name will YOU be taking, Wayne?"

Me: "Martin Luthur!"

(Sound of Sister Robert whacking me with her ruler)

[NashVegas]

61. I Got PUNCHED by a Nun!

It was the school principle - Sister Bernadette.

Some girls in my 6th grade class had been picking on a 5th grade boy. I was standing in their group, and not part of the action, but the kid who went to the priciple pegged me as the guilty party. Sister B sent a runner to pull me out of my class and bring me to the homeroom where she was subbing. I refused to, cause I didn't do anything and said so. Then she came and got me herself and that's when she punched me in the shoulders. One-two. I still refused to take the blame but wouldn't name the guilty parties. One of the girls who had been doing the teasing came up at this point and tried to 'fess up, but the nun wouldn't let her, and I got dragged to the other class.

After I'd been sitting there for 10 minutes among the 5th-graders (oh, the indignity!) the girl who'd tried to intervene back in my class came in and confessed. Sister Bernadette then yelled at her for not coming forward sooner. "But Sister, I tried too .." she stammered and was promptly shouted down. I can't remember if Sister Bernadette bothered to apologize to me or not, but there was something about shoving her idiocy in her face that I found sickly appealing.


on edit: but no, I was never hit with a ruler.

[peacefreak]

62. 12 Year Vet

I was whacked the first day of fourth grade my Sister Mary Isidore for having paper scraps in my desk. Only problem was since it was the first day we hadn't even USED any paper. They were left there from the previous year.
She was about 4'8 & 1,000 years old, but packed a mean punch. Ah yes, fear as a teaching tool.

[sister_rosa_refried]

67. Oh HER!

Can't stand her, dear. Mary Isidore and I went a couple of rounds during the Nun-A-Thon in 1986. We we're in Chicago and I was teaching a class on more progressive teaching tactic. Isi opened her yap one to many times and I layed into her. Well, it got pretty ugly with me and Isi. I told her to get her old ass out my face and she put that motorized wheel chair into high gear and tried to run me down. IN FRONT OF THE WHOLE CLASS!! Later that night I got even and flatten her tires.

I think she quit and became a ref for the WWF.

[sister_rosa_refried]

63. I don't like using a ruler.

But don't push me!


All my holy love,


Sister Rosa Refried

[ronnykmarshall]

72. I've had my ass pinched by a Nun.

It was a guy in drag, but it still counts in my book.

[nuxvomica]

75. No.

I have been taught by nuns in elementary and high schools. Most were very nice women. Worse I ever saw was a kid get vasoline rubbed into his hair as punishment for it being too long. The orders were "The School Sisters of Notre Dame" and "The Sisters of St. Joseph." Maybe they were non-violent orders.