ookkie
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Post by ookkie on Dec 19, 2013 13:52:01 GMT -5
...I am a High School teacher. Today was the final day before the holiday break, and the kids were excited about relief from assignments, tests and classes. As tends to be the case, the final day was a shortened one - one where classes often have a party/celebration before saying goodbye for a couple of weeks.
The students were promised a movie to watch after working on their essays...
...and I showed them The Star Wars Holiday Special.
Am I a bad person?
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Perd
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Post by Perd on Dec 19, 2013 13:59:29 GMT -5
That's awesome. How did the kids react?
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Dec 19, 2013 14:06:38 GMT -5
That's awesome. How did the kids react? I was wondering the same thing. I like to imagine a whole class of children riffing the movie and making sarcastic comments at it. Also, where the f*** did you get a copy of that?
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Magician under the moonlight
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Post by Magician under the moonlight on Dec 19, 2013 14:36:36 GMT -5
STIR WHIP STIR WHIP WHIP WHIP STIR.STIR WHIP STIR WHIP WHIP WHIP STIR.STIR WHIP STIR WHIP WHIP WHIP STIR.
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Abadebe
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Post by Abadebe on Dec 19, 2013 14:36:43 GMT -5
You monster
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Dec 19, 2013 14:37:56 GMT -5
They should be thanking you for showing them that cinematic masterpiece!
Also you should watch out for George Lucas with a baseball bat...
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Dec 19, 2013 15:13:23 GMT -5
STIR WHIP STIR WHIP WHIP WHIP STIR.STIR WHIP STIR WHIP WHIP WHIP STIR.STIR WHIP STIR WHIP WHIP WHIP STIR. AAAAAOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWRRRRRRRRRRGGGHHHH!! What? It's my impression of a Wookie.
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Push R Truth
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Post by Push R Truth on Dec 19, 2013 15:18:06 GMT -5
You'll be a BREAKING NEWS story on CNN next week "Bloodthirsty Teacher Emotionally Tortured their Students"
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Derk!
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Post by Derk! on Dec 19, 2013 15:28:43 GMT -5
You'll be a BREAKING NEWS story on CNN next week "Bloodthirsty Teacher Emotionally Tortured their Students" King Ghidorah will make a thread about it.
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Post by Goldenbane on Dec 19, 2013 15:48:20 GMT -5
They should be thanking you for showing them that cinematic masterpiece! Also you should watch out for George Lucas with a baseball bat... These days I think George Lucas probably loves that movie and considers it the height of his Star Wars Genius. I have no doubt he wishes he still owned Star Wars as to make a Jar Jar Binks, young Anakin edition.
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Post by Munkie91087 on Dec 19, 2013 15:51:26 GMT -5
My friends and I watch the Holiday Special every year during our Christmas party. It's our most important tradition.
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Dec 19, 2013 15:52:05 GMT -5
could have been worse you could have shown them The Phantom Menace
badum tish
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Dec 19, 2013 16:52:45 GMT -5
you're more evil than the junior kindergarten teacher I had who threw her prosthetic hand at me.
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ookkie
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Post by ookkie on Dec 20, 2013 6:59:02 GMT -5
you're more evil than the junior kindergarten teacher I had who threw her prosthetic hand at me. ...this...sounds amazing. To answer some of the questions: 1) My friend had a copy that he put on my laptop, which I was then able to project using a data projector. It was a pretty decent copy in terms of image and sound quality, so happily the ravages of time didn't impact the 'experience' too much. 2) How did the kids react? Hard to say, as the reactions were different. A good portion of them were, at first, like "Cool - Han Solo and Chewie, this could be neat...wait, 'in time for life day'?" Their hopes were further dashed when we went to scene after scene of wookie dialogue. A handful of students mentally checked out and turned to their phones... but most of them just watched in horror and amusement (not in the way that Lucas would have intended). It really did sort of become a rifftrax experience. People started wondering if Lumpy was trying to steal perogies, if Luke came out of a tanning bed... "Did he really just say a shaggy rug made by 'hand'... 'solo'?" ...and the best part of the entire viewing experience was when we got to Itchy and his 'Wow' viewing of Diahann Carroll'. Words cannot describe the awkwardness.
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Dec 20, 2013 7:23:28 GMT -5
you're more evil than the junior kindergarten teacher I had who threw her prosthetic hand at me. This needs to be elaborated on.
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Dec 20, 2013 10:27:53 GMT -5
you're more evil than the junior kindergarten teacher I had who threw her prosthetic hand at me. This needs to be elaborated on. okay I will. my teacher in JK was a really old harridan. she's the kind of school-marm you'd see in old movies from the 50s, but this was 1990. for our exercise one day we had to colour a robin's egg, which is supposed to be turquoise. being all of 4 years old at the time I said f*** that noise and coloured it black. she actually started screaming at me about it in front of the rest of the class and when I told her (once again, being 4) that I didn't care and I wanted to colour it black. she got so mad she took off her prosthetic hand and threw it at me. keep in mind I was 4 and didn't even know she had one, or that such things even existed. I think she had serious mental problems and nobody ever took them seriously because her students were 4 year olds. it's one of those things I never really thought about until years later. I thought that was just how teachers were supposed to act, I guess. she also made my aunt come and pick me up from school for turning off a light switch and even lied to her, saying I was kicking other students when I wasn't. seriously, she had no business teaching 4 year olds. the following year my uncle went to talk with her about his daughter because me and my other cousin Rob had had problems with her, and he told her "don't you do anything underhanded with my daughter" and then realized she was missing a hand, which is also a pretty funny story.
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Dec 20, 2013 11:02:43 GMT -5
This needs to be elaborated on. okay I will. my teacher in JK was a really old harridan. she's the kind of school-marm you'd see in old movies from the 50s, but this was 1990. for our exercise one day we had to colour a robin's egg, which is supposed to be turquoise. being all of 4 years old at the time I said f*** that noise and coloured it black. she actually started screaming at me about it in front of the rest of the class and when I told her (once again, being 4) that I didn't care and I wanted to colour it black. she got so mad she took off her prosthetic hand and threw it at me. keep in mind I was 4 and didn't even know she had one, or that such things even existed. I think she had serious mental problems and nobody ever took them seriously because her students were 4 year olds. it's one of those things I never really thought about until years later. I thought that was just how teachers were supposed to act, I guess. she also made my aunt come and pick me up from school for turning off a light switch and even lied to her, saying I was kicking other students when I wasn't. seriously, she had no business teaching 4 year olds. the following year my uncle went to talk with her about his daughter because me and my other cousin Rob had had problems with her, and he told her "don't you do anything underhanded with my daughter" and then realized she was missing a hand, which is also a pretty funny story. That sounds like something that would be rejected from a slapstick comedy for being too goofy.
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Dec 20, 2013 11:56:13 GMT -5
okay I will. my teacher in JK was a really old harridan. she's the kind of school-marm you'd see in old movies from the 50s, but this was 1990. for our exercise one day we had to colour a robin's egg, which is supposed to be turquoise. being all of 4 years old at the time I said f*** that noise and coloured it black. she actually started screaming at me about it in front of the rest of the class and when I told her (once again, being 4) that I didn't care and I wanted to colour it black. she got so mad she took off her prosthetic hand and threw it at me. keep in mind I was 4 and didn't even know she had one, or that such things even existed. I think she had serious mental problems and nobody ever took them seriously because her students were 4 year olds. it's one of those things I never really thought about until years later. I thought that was just how teachers were supposed to act, I guess. she also made my aunt come and pick me up from school for turning off a light switch and even lied to her, saying I was kicking other students when I wasn't. seriously, she had no business teaching 4 year olds. the following year my uncle went to talk with her about his daughter because me and my other cousin Rob had had problems with her, and he told her "don't you do anything underhanded with my daughter" and then realized she was missing a hand, which is also a pretty funny story. That sounds like something that would be rejected from a slapstick comedy for being too goofy. she also encouraged the class to make fun of anyone who didn't feel like eating their entire lunch. bitch was crazy.
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Post by Shy Guy on Dec 20, 2013 14:42:32 GMT -5
i thought this was going to be a foo fighters thread
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Post by Sir Woodrow on Dec 20, 2013 15:30:05 GMT -5
you're more evil than the junior kindergarten teacher I had who threw her prosthetic hand at me. You should have grabbed it and told her she could have it back at the end of the day
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