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That's kind of sh**ty.

Wow. I used to go to Lakeside. I know those kids. Bradley used to go to LS. That's crazy...

Wow, if insult and abuse of a teacher is a misdemeanor, I and half of my classmates from Parkview High School are unconvicted felons.

I'm kinda glad to see that they're still making kids like we used to be. In Bush's 3rd term these students will be marched out to the parking lot and shot to death before lunch. Make merry while you still can, I say.

hey deathbyinches...why don't you go out and get a job and shut up. What are you doing playing on the computer on a tuesday morning? At least go out and walk your dog in Hillcrest or Quapaw...which one do you live in?

A good mess of poke sallet is as effective as ex-lax. It's needed every spring for a good cleaning out of the system.

>>>hey deathbyinches...why don't you go out and get a job and shut up. .... go out and walk your dog in Hillcrest or Quapaw...which one do you live in? <<<

To Anon: New around here are you, kid? You need to learn some respect for your elders.

To DBI: Hillcrest would be honored to have you any time. If you want to come and visit I'll ice down some microbrews.

If you want to walk a dog, you can borrow mine.

My wife and brother in law both graduated from Lakeside so this gives me a great opportunity to harass them.

Anonymous are you Joe Klein?

lest I be confused with the notorious "Anon" herebouts, the above post was mine, albiet unsigned. -TJ

To Anon: New around here are you, kid? You need to learn some respect for your elders.

To DBI: Hillcrest would be honored to have you any time. If you want to come and visit I'll ice down some microbrews.

If you want to walk a dog, you can borrow mine.

Gee such kind offers to visit LR. Unfortunately I am stuck over here in the sticks of Fort Smith, a long way from LR.

My wife will not let me come to LR because of meeting Sweet Sweet Connie a few years ago. Mrs. DBI knows my weakness for loose women......speaking of loose women the first such girls I ever met were on the 3rd or 4th floor of the Marion Hotel, about 1968.

A few of us good Baptist boys were skipping some Baptist mumbo-jumbo meeting at the Robinson Auditorium when the sirens called to us from up above. We took the stairs to avoid notice and it took all the courage I had to knock on their door. When it opened a half naked young girl asked me where all my buddies were and when I turned around I saw the last of them running down the stairs. Which is exactly what I did as soon as I found I was all alone with the lovelies......duh!

So, if and when I come to LR I have a lot to make up for. I am currently awaiting doctor's approval to use Viagra, so Connie has to wait. But gee thanks for the kind invitation. I'll keep it in my ditty bag for future reference.

For the record I just finished cleaning my poor old Ma's room. Kleenex and cigarette butts...a wheel barrow full at least. She's a messy old gal, but I love her.

My bad.......the last post was of course mine.

Well, you can still walk my dog, but if you bring Viagra you'd better bring a muzzle, too.

Bless you DBI and TJ -- for the honest to goodness laugh y'all just gave us.

Hey Ft. Smith..when you visit Little Rock keep yourself in Hillcrest or Quapaw...stay out of the Heights or west Little Rock or Chenal. We don't want you. Liberal Tax the Rich types are not welcome...

Best I can remember I liked Quapaw Quarter...is that what you're speaking of? Not sure about Hillcrest in LR, Fort Smith has a Hillcrest built in the late 20s and still a nice place to live, but too rich for my blood.

Thanks to my very nice wife and my not so nice dead mother in law, we're richer than we've ever been. But best I can tell we didn't see any of those wonderful Bush tax cuts.

But I'd make you deal. Stop the war now, cut the military budget in half and you can keep your Bush tax cut. Seems more than fair to me.

I'm kinda glad to see that they're still making kids like we used to be. . . . Make merry while you still can, I say.
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My first thought was that this story itself was just a fictitious prank in poor taste.

But, if this story is true, then some of these comments are even worse - As if teaching wasn't disrespected enough, now we make it harmless fun to sneak unknown substances into their food?
This time its exlax, next time its.?

What fun it would have been to slip some peanuts in the food of a teacher with a severe peanut allergy! Gee, wouldn't that be hilarious!

Maybe a little meth - lets see what that does!

And then the reverse - how fun it would be for a teacher to slip exlax into the food of her obnoxious pupil so he can make a nice mess in class? No problem, just a harmless prank. Parents shouldn't be upset over this little harmless prank. . .

No wonder it is hard to keep good teachers.

Anonymous,

I live in WLR / Chenal and I'm a card carrying liberal, not a conservative circle-jerker helping to drive our country into bankruptcy while killing as many people as we can in the middle east. Who are you to speak for me? I guess I know why you are anonymous.

I'm kinda glad to see that they're still making kids like we used to be. . . Make merry while you still can, I say.
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My first thought was that this story itself was just a fictitious prank in poor taste.
But, if this story is true, then some of these comments are even worse - As if teaching wasn't disrespected enough, now we make it harmless fun to sneak unknown substances into their food?

This time its exlax, next time its.?

What fun it would have been to slip some peanuts in the food of a teacher with a severe peanut allergy! Gee, wouldn't that be hilarious!

Maybe a little meth - lets see what that does!

How fun it would be for a teacher to slip exlax into the food of her obnoxious pupil so he can make a nice mess in class? No problem, just a harmless prank. Why should parents be upset over that?

No wonder it is hard to keep good teachers.

C'mon AT - please fix this so "Anonymous" doesn't get credited for so many individualized pearls of wisdom(?) when we get too trigger-happy and hit "post" prematurely.

My bad. Sorry.

Well, DBI, you may wish to re-consider you public disavowel of any visits to LR since one of the spots in your area was the target of the local moral police. I'm sure you are acquainted with the site near the border.....

http://www.swtimes.com/articles/2006/05/09/news/news02.prt

Ah, what fond memories the old alma mater brings to mind. Chick Austin singing, "Cigarettes, whiskey, and wild wild women..." during two a days. Jane Butler letting me wrote my own notes to get outta class. Track busses to Maggot Cove. You gotta be special to be a Ram. Then again these kids may have been just more turds in the punch bowl. Keep up the good work, lads. The bastards probably deserved it.

So I guess I can update.

I talked to a friend who still goes to Lakeside.

There were 4 students involved. Two of them just bought the laxative, and they got out of school suspension for 3 days each. The bummer is that these OSS's occurred during semester tests.

The other 2 kids were expelled (Harry Keck and Mark something). They can't graduate. They're going to argue with the school board and probably win. One of the the leading school board members, Mrs. Campbell, supposedly said their punishments were way to harsh. I'd have to agree...getting expelled 1 weeks before graduation is pretty harsh.

Supposedly at least 5 teachers were affected by the laxative.

Cato, I just heard today that they raided Adult World in lovely Pocola, Oklahoma. I never got up the nerve to go to Adult World. I can't seem to go anywhere without running into someone I know and many years ago one of my high school classmates met in the isle of Crazy Earl's, the closest thing Fort Smith has to a porn shop. The poor guy took one look at me and ran like OJ thru an airport. I too thought it was a little embarrassing, but my friend lost his mind. Did he think only people from Tulsa shopped at Crazy Earls?

And before I get to Adult World I have another Crazy Earl's story that seems timely. Earl was the 2nd place in Fort Smith that sold and rented porno tapes. This was back in the late 80s. Dildoes and handcuffs were pretty new to Fort Baptist and so were porno tapes, so there was lots of water cooler talk and lots of people slipping in Earl's and getting a membership card so they could take a little surprise home to the wifey.

So 6 or 8 months go by and about half the town has rented some XXX movies and things are going fine when Ron Fields*, then the prosecuting attorney for the city of Fort Smith drops in Crazy Earl's one afternoon and confiscates the membership list, not the tapes, the membership list. Well, I don't care, but a few people in town with reputations to uphold filled their pants. One assistant US attorney I knew had to go lay down.

Fortunately one of our better known attorneys had Fields in his pocket at the time and made one phone call and in a couple of hours the membership list was back at Crazy Earl's. Needless to say Earl quit carrying porno tapes and is still in biz today. It was just a very skunky thing to do.

Anyway, I've heard many stories of Adult World. I heard there was backroom quarter peep shows, lots of glory holes, strange men milling around, occasionally a tarty looking women with her slobbering husband or boyfriend. Lots of sex that wouldn't please Mother and a few people whose names printed in the paper would cause much brow lifting. In other words, a good time was had by all.

None of it bothered me, I mean, it's Eastern Oklahoma for god's sake...anything goes over there. And secondly, I'm old enough to know a good number of adults have pretty bizarre ideas about sex. What's new? I'm pretty much happy when anyone is having the time of their life as long as it doesn't bother someone else and everyone assembled is happy.

Adult World has been over there for at least 10 years. I've never heard of a stabbing or a shooting or a robbery. Oh, one dude was semi-kidnapped one time, but I think he sorta got off on it. Anyway...AW didn't bother me or my wife or kids. So what? Big deal.

I was told the raid was prompted by the new owners of some vacant property down the road from Adult World. And yeah.....you guessed it, the new owners of the currently vacant piece of ground are a church of some kind. They didn't want that filth down the road from their proposed new building someday when they build it. I've also been told their next target is a liquor store that is even closer to where they plan to build than AW. And their last goal is to mount a crusade to run the Choctaw Casino out of business.

So the Pocola powers that be raid Adult World and put it out of business. Adult World apparently did a lot of business and therefore I'd guess they paid a lot of taxes, but no more. And soon, maybe soon, Pocola will be graced with another church...and say it with me class, that will NOT PAY TAXES. Great move Pocola! You just helped someone who will not be paying taxes put someone out of business that paid a lot of taxes. Praise the Lawd!

And now...if you think about this carefully, a bunch of horny rednecks and edgy men in suits and a few tarty women from out of town will have to take their sex stuff to the woods, or one of our lovely parks or who knows where, instead of behind the doors of Adult World where there apparently was no trouble and after all that is Eastern Oklahoma.

More Bushworld, more taxes you and I will have to make up, more pervs disrupted and sent out into the land with their yangers in their hands. Guess someone thinks this is progress.

*Last I heard Mr. Fields who went on to be Asa's right hand man at the DEA was still on administrative leave while being investigated for drug dealing and murder. I know him, not well, and he's pretty scary, but I can't really imagine him dealing drugs or murdering someone...........

In 1970 Lakeside Seniors set alarm clocks to go off in their lockers at the same time. Not novel then or now. But the difference was that the rest of the high school staged a walk out to protest when those kids were suspended. Questioning authority was the mode of response then.
What happened? Was it the Reagan quashing of the BEOG and so many hopes for college? Or has it been the decades of young parents since then clinging to a get along mentality that diminished the awareness in their children what an organized group can accomplish?

Chick used to call us "Half Assed Dumb Asses". He also taught us not to take shit from any one. As much as the old school was bullshit it was spot on for recognizing what prep boys like this Bush puke puppet represented. It is high time we put more dulcolax in the Dr.Pepper at al levels of authority. We are lied to hourly by the powers that be. I commend the lads taking charge of their world. It's a prank today but it represents a challenge that has been absent too long.

Yeah, I know. I'm romanticizing a couple of assholes. Maybe somebody is listening that might make a difference.

Yeah. You're romanticizing a bunch of pranksters. I guarantee they didn't have nearly that much thought going into it. They also probably nailed perfectly good teachers.

As for Lakeside, I mostly hated that place. The administration is probably one of the most anal. A lot of rich pseudo-Christian types as well. Obviously some of the people were cool and not like this, but compared to other schools, LS had more than its share of pampered pricks.

some good teachers from my day at LS: Lou Skrodenis (Algebra II), Mr. Coston (Geometry and Physics), Mrs. Mouton (History), Mrs. Morton (Literature), and the man, the myth, the legend, Paul Quattlebaum!

Oh yea, and Mrs. Dickinson - we got away with WAY to much crap in her class(es).

I think we need a separate Blog item entitled "DBI's Fantastical Return to Little Rock." I'm sure we all could pitch in a pithy offering of where we'd take him.

DBI, it is heartening to see the Pocola Police Department overcome their own past transgressions so as to be able to wear these halos as they now take on the role of moral police to keep lovely Pocola purified of man's basest biological craving(s).
Some of my hometown friends have often frequented the establishment in question but not once did they relate to me the craven activities you listed or I would have had to make my own private trek to glory land so as to behold those wonders with mine own eyes.

Cato, from a lifetime study I have concluded on the whole it is much harder to sin in Arkansas than it is in other states. I think that robs us of all of the joys of repentance. You can't have an orgy of repentance if you can't find an orgy within driving distance from your home.

Back in my Baptist days, any ole evangelist could bring in an average crowd. But an evangelist who was a reformed drunk would fill the house. One that was a former drunk and drug addict made for standing room only. Unfortunately I de-churched before the current crop of former drunks-druggies-pimps-homosexuals and cross-dressers made the religious scene.

So, Pocola will no longer feed the ranks of future evangelists, sodomites will have to go back to lurking in parks and parking lots and the cops at Pocola will have to go back on the quota system giving out lots more tickets to make up for the lost tax money. For every ying there's a yang so they say.

Deathbyinches, you're a riot. Definitely, you should have your own blog through which to opine. Even when I disagree, you're entertaining. Rolling on the hard wood floor funny.

I know that voice...