Posted by: hondo at December 13, 2005 10:03 AM (3aakz)
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Yep, mine died three different times. But, heh, Rusty, I did the makeup test and made a goo...well..kinda goo...ok, bad grade. I should have taken it the first time. Are you happy?
Posted by: jesusland joe at December 13, 2005 10:19 AM (rUyw4)
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Most common excuse for rescheduling exams.
Posted by: Rusty Shackleford at December 13, 2005 10:19 AM (JQjhA)
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Do any of the excuses involve the dog?
Posted by: Oyster at December 13, 2005 11:26 AM (YudAC)
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Let's keep in mind that sometimes the excuse is true. Some cynicism is understandable, but I'm sure Dr. Shackleford handles the requests delicately.
Posted by: Jill at December 13, 2005 11:36 AM (j/eWI)
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I see your grandmother dying and raise you a bad case of pneumonia.
Posted by: Leopold Stotch at December 13, 2005 11:45 AM (vz9ML)
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In light of this information, can you explain to me what this means? What prompted this group to kill some hostages, and let others go?
What do you make of their silence?
Thanks,
Jill
Posted by: Jill at December 13, 2005 11:57 AM (pbum3)
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I don't know if you've ever mentioned it here or not since I found your blog several months ago, but what do you teach (in general terms) if you don't mind my asking? If you prefer not to answer, I understand. If I ever got motivated enough to publish my own, I would probably try to stay as underground as possible.
Posted by: slug at December 13, 2005 12:50 PM (DbAnU)
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so good Doctor
Are you working with a proscribed curve?
Any inflationary pressures?
A system of your own design?
The real fun begins after posting - that's when the complaints and stories really get desperate.
Posted by: hondo at December 13, 2005 01:43 PM (3aakz)
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Just tell them what my First Sergeant told me: "She'll still be dead afterwards, won't she?"
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at December 13, 2005 01:52 PM (0yYS2)
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My dog used to eat of lot of non-edibles during finals week.
Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at December 13, 2005 02:06 PM (8e/V4)
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They don't just die-they die IN MEXICO. Some place far far away is the ticket.
Posted by: Girlgonemil at December 14, 2005 01:17 PM (0IZ80)
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I had never heard it when I was a student, so I was shocked my first semester as a teacher to have three students tearfully tell me about grandma's demise. Makes you want to assign a big paper and have it due before finals.
Posted by: tee bee at December 14, 2005 01:48 PM (q1JHF)
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I never used a dead anybody excuse. Nearly everytime I was presented with being late on something I'd be completely honest:
"I'm not going to demean your intelligence by creating some crappy story of how the dog ate my homework. I'm late. I screwed up. What can I do to fix it?"
Yes, it was either this or a crappy school system that got me my Magna.
Posted by: Jeremy H. Bol at December 20, 2005 09:06 AM (A20i1)
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