On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:19:18 -0800, the infamous "Roger Shoaf"
scrawled the following:


"Winston" wrote in message
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Stormin Mormon wrote:
When I was in middle school. Our science teacher took a
galon metal can with screw cap. Put in an inch or so of
water, and boiled it on a hotplate. Screw the cap on. As the
can cooled, it shriveled down, due to air pressure.

In the current paranoid, delusional climate, it would be called
an 'implosive device'.




And don't forget the "environmental nightmare" of having the exposed solder
joint if the seam on the can split open. That contains lead. and we
wouldn't want the children to be exposed to that now would we.

We'd best remove compasses, pens, and pencils, pointed weapons.
And we'd best remove rulers, a sharpenable edge weapon.
Remove the rest of the old slate chalkboards, as they can be broken
into pointed weapons.
Let's also take belts and shoelaces, hanging devices.

Hmm, now school looks like prison. Hmm...

--
When we are planning for posterity,
we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
-- Thomas Paine