Friday, September 05, 2003

As we all know, kids are cruel to other kids for a wide variety of extraordinarily stupid reasons. So let's have some light-hearted nostalgia this weekend! Think back to those dark days, and in the comments box share with us all the stupidest thing you've ever been teased, mocked, or tormented for.

For me it's a tie between two things:

1. Sitting up straight at a particular moment. This wasn't a mockery of my usual habit of maintaining good posture, it wasn't a moment when it was any less appropriate to sit up straight than usual, it was just the fact that I was sitting up straight at the time the commenter chose to comment.

2. The fact that my last name resembles the word from which it is derived. For those who don't know my last name, neither it nor the word from which it was derived have any implications of any sort in any of the languages involved. It was just "Ha ha, the etymology of your surname is clear to anyone who gives it a moment's thought!"

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