Subj : PING Question To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Tue Mar 17 2020 07:18:00 Hi Nancy! NB>> And he always was an idiosyncratic learner/student.... I think it NB>> was his tenth grade English teacher that worked out a deal with NB>> him... he wanted to do the assignments HIS way, not necessarily what NB>> she was actually asking for... so she said, as long as you do it my NB>> way, you can also turn it in your own way, and I'll grade them NB>> both... Made a little extra work for her, but she also got him to NB>> do the work to learn what she was trying to teach... And he did NB>> double work for the privilege of doing his own thing... ;) BM> Accolades to that teacher! My only 'quirkie' assignment request was BM> asking two of my professors if I could use one paper for both of their BM> assigments. Fairly certain one was for English and the other a BM> natural science. Both knew who I was, both had experiences with my BM> skills in research and language, etc., so they agreed. ...I did well. NB> Nice. :) Probably worked out better for all of us; on the surface me as "one paper instead of two" but the three of us essentially knew by getting rid of one assignement I'd throw myself into the other. NB>> Richard is also taking it to slow his heartbeat... BM> Both of us have 'hummingbird hearts'?! NB> Controlled Afib, in his case.... ;) If the medication cuts out the low-level heartbeats, leaving only full level ones, could see that to control irregular beating. (I know: really sloppy concept!) BM> ...Sort of with misplaced BM> letters and assignments, I did one where I typed 'equiptment' -- this BM> was in the days of typewriters and simple four-banger desktop BM> calculators. The professor commented to me every time she read that BM> in my paper her brain read it with a bit of a backfire! NB> You used it multiple times in the same paper, then... when did NB> you catch on to your creative spelling...? ;) When the instructor told me! Abbreviation was "eqpt" and I guess instead of thinking the 't' was the final letter I thought it was at the end of the first half. Maybe heard something like "the car is equipped with" as 'equipted'.... BM>>>> Half-thinking of the 13- and 15-letter word categories on _Jeopardy!_, BM>>>> most of which are relatively common usage and so not as bad as one BM>>>> initially things when hears "thirteen letters!!". BM>>>> Generalstaatsanwalt is 19. BM>>>> Konsumgterproduktion is 21. BM>>>> Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is 34. NB>>>> And then there's antidisestablishmentarianism with 28 letters, which NB>>>> we used to parade out back when I was in highschool... a proper NB>>>> dictionary word even back then... ;) BM>>> Yup! Need to combine several Scrabble games' tiles for that one! NB>>> It wouldn't fit on the board either, for that matter... ;) BM>> Well, as we're using more tiles from the other Scrabble boxes we'll BM>> just use those game boards too! NB>> But there's that gap of the border all around the playing section.... BM> Ummm, going horizontally across double letter points, vertically BM> double points for the word! NB> Now, that's creative thinking.... I've been around Autumn too long!! ...She's off from school so far through April 10th. NB> ... Access denied--nah nah na nah nah! "Password"?! It's an entire sentence! Barry_Martin_3@ @Q.COM .... Password- The nonsense word taped to the monitor --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 wcECHO 4.2 ILink: The Safe BBS Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .