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    Quote Originally Posted by AProudLefty View Post
    Well society is depressing. They're just letting us know gently before we graduate.

    Now here we are on JPP full of retards.
    Bwahahahaha!

    So much for *that* education. lol
    "Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain

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    Quote Originally Posted by AProudLefty View Post
    I'll make the plot more interesting. OINK! OINK! Squish! Gasp!

    I know what the movie you are thinking of.
    Sure has a purty mouth.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt Dillon View Post
    Sure has a purty mouth.
    Now you get it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    We also were forced to read "Cyrano, The Bugs Are Back."
    I can see why this one didn't make it into my school curriculum: It's got a bunch of naked little boys running around.

    That wouldn't fly here.

    All I remember is a few Shakespeare things and a few others.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AProudLefty View Post
    I hated my teacher for making us read "The Lottery". It's good, mind you, but the ending was awful.
    We had to read that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt Dillon View Post
    We had to read that.
    We need teachers who aren't snowflakes who coddle their students from harsh reality.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt Dillon View Post
    I've never read that.
    ????.....how did you get through high school without reading Lord of the Flies?....
    Isaiah 6:5
    “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by PostmodernProphet View Post
    ????.....how did you get through high school without reading Lord of the Flies?....
    A private school perhaps?

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    Sup with "The Catcher in the Rye" book tho yo?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt Dillon View Post
    I can see why this one didn't make it into my school curriculum: It's got a bunch of naked little boys running around.

    That wouldn't fly here.

    All I remember is a few Shakespeare things and a few others.
    It was banned by a lot of school districts.

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    Heh I remember when "Harry Potter" books were banned. What the actual fuck?

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    Quote Originally Posted by PostmodernProphet View Post
    ????.....how did you get through high school without reading Lord of the Flies?....
    What makes you think he got through high school?

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    I looked up for a list of hated or banned books. Apparently "The Color of Earth" angered some people for some reason. I never knew that.

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