Chemistry ...."Do as you oughter add acid to water" and that a 20ft. piece of surgical tubeing with a knot tied in one end and pressurized with water makes one heck of a squirt gun. Algebra.....Learned that you will never need it in the real world! Geometry....a squared + b squared = c squared Trig.....It really pays to sit next to the smartest girl! Phys. Ed......Piece of cake if you are a jock! Literature.....Easy because your older sister was the teachers pet. Auto shop...Learned that charged condensers were fun to toss to people. Home Ec. .......Make one "leetle" mistake with the oven and they never let you cook again! Classes in general....... If you could ace your tests then homework didn't really matter. Being a jock helps to prevent swirlies! Slide rulers can be your friend. Anybody got anything to add? Gary
.......that you can get blueberry pudding cake to stick to the ceiling of the cafeteria lunch room for up to 6 minutes when you flip it up there................ ............that if you continually roll and press an apple on the cafeteria table it eventually becomes a awesome apple sauce "grenade"......................
An entire caf table of guys can get away with shooting peas with a spoon... until the ceiling is green. Then, casually walk to class...
Chemistry- I was always a fan of Zn + HCl. One experiment called for filling a small test tube, sticking in a match and listening for a 'pop'. I can confirm that if you fill a trash bag liner there will be an 'earth shattering KABOOM'. Algebra- I use the basic concepts a fair bit. Geometry- I use the triangle theorems all the time. Trig- SOH CAH TOA, use it all the time. Was fun building stuff with my dad and when we took cross measurements to square it up I could tell him what the measurement would be. He just tweaked it until the cross dimensions matched. Phys. Ed- Did my time and got through it. Didn't hate it, didn't like it. Tennis court dodge ball was kind of fun, until someone smoked the girls team star player in the head. No more tennis dodge ball... Literature- I've always been an avid reader. Shakspere was hard for me, the language distracts me from the story. I got in trouble because I would read ahead and when it came my turn to read I couldn't pick up where the last person left off. Auto shop- never had auto shop. learned at home. did learn about the evils of capacitors in physics. Home Ec- been there done that. we had the electronic baby thing. we were told we had to take it every where. Unfortunately I had a dirt bike hare scramble that weekend. I bungied it to the back of my RM 250. I didn't realize they have an acceleration sensor that records if you shake it. Teacher was baffled how I shook the living hell out of it for 5 hours straight. Classes in general- my experience too, did well but didn't really try. Being a jock helps to prevent swirlies!- I found being a mean azz mother fricker helped. Freshman year some one grabbed me for some reason I didn't care to find out. I grabbed the nearest blunt object (janitors mop) and beat the living hell out of him. Guess hazing isn't as fun when you are the one who ends up with a broken arm and busted ribs. Slide rulers can be your friend. I learned to run a slip stick in college, I still use it in the field occasionally, rain won't kill it.
Nun's are strong. The volcano science project with a wick sticking out of it will leave a mark on the ceiling when finished. And make classmates dive behind their desks. A little humiliation and discipline made for more respectful students.
Chemistry : If you mix nitric acid and glycerin together in a pot and boil them, then ladle off the stuff that floats to the top , you can blow a hole in a pool table. Physics : The HOT girls in school , don't look so HOT NOW!
I learned that the coach really loved to spray methiolate (spelling) onto fresh cuts. I'll never forget the worse one. I was running low hurdles and was way out in the lead....until I caught one hurdle with a knee. Really split that thing open. Coach and rest of the team had a ball but I didn't.
As a freshman a ho-down on an open basketball court while shooting free-throws in front of the hottest senior girl can get you dates with older chicks
I learned that you can only trust teachers so much. I personally witnessed a teacher flirting with a jr. high girl! Don't mean innocent stuff, I mean sexual questions...guys a pig. At same school, witnessed a fistfight with a teacher and a 10th grader. The teacher was a bully personality and the 10th grader stood up to him...teacher called him out and promptly lost his job.
I learned when they have aa 3 foot wood paddle with holes drilled in it and they say bend over. Just say no, seriously
Chemistry: Poor little Johnny, will be with us nevermore, for what he thought was H2O was H2SO4. Math: PI are not round, PI r square.
Electronics nerds can install and repair 8-track players and car radios for large bad guys as protection from bullies. Get to know the guy who has a master key to the school building. Basswood makes a horrible speaker enclosure (shop class).
Dropping a light M-80 in a flushing toilet has devastating results and also gives you insight as to what a demolition expert does every day.........................
