AikiDale Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GentlemanJim Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 That is so cool!!! And I thaught they were hoping for this Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 Gun-toting nuns!!! I love it!!!! I love it!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyinBlue Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 I can assure you that nuns are a serious threat. Four years of Catholic School...ouch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 Make that EIGHT years in the penguin machine for THIS lady...!! Whew!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyinBlue Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 Were you of the "left-handed" criminal offense? Boy, do I remember that ruler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 Interesting question... I was actively discouraged by them from using my left hand to write with... (I'm actually kinda ambidextrous). Well, the nuns didn't usually "ruler" the girls. I did get in trouble, though, for asking too many questions (and joking about) Communism, though. Seems like that's all they talked about! What did they expect, then, my asking about it...? Gah! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IPSCDRL Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 I used to get in trouble for asking too many questions as well SIG-Lady. I'd ask questions like, "Can god create a rock so big, even he couldn't lift it?" Either way, you're saying the powers are limited. The final straw was when I asked the nun, "Hey Sister, you have any dirty habbits?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyinBlue Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 I used to get in trouble for asking too many questions as well SIG-Lady.I'd ask questions like, "Can god create a rock so big, even he couldn't lift it?" Either way, you're saying the powers are limited. The final straw was when I asked the nun, "Hey Sister, you have any dirty habbits?" Oh that is funny...dirty habits...lol Nanci Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChuckS Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 The ironic thing about all this is that it was a nun who first showed me how to shoot a .22 rifle at some sort of "keep the kids out of trouble" summner camp. And this was in suburban Chicago! Needless to say, it was a long time ago. The nuns really did not need firearms, though. They were just fine with empty hand, thrusting weapons (the pointer) and edged weapons (the yardstick). Remember the bar scene in the first Star Wars movie where Obiwan wips out the light sabre and cuts that guys had off? Well, that was Sister Cora with a yardstick. Damn, that hurt... Maybe she was Jedi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 I think some of the nuns I knew were natural Jedi's... They weilded The Force with little or no weaponry most of the time. Actually, some of the nuns I studied under were very smart and very cool. I came to respect them for their ability to deal effectively with grade-school kids. Whatta job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 You folks are pikers, I spent four years in Catholic grammer schools, then did four years hard time in a Jesuit run catholic high school. The Jesuit brothers in high school would whack ya' upside the head with a heavy book if you acted up, but the nun's in grammer school used a ruler on edge over the knuckles. I will take it upside the head with a text book any day in preference ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cking Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 I spent grade school with the Francisans, High School and two years of College with Jesuits. I can't count the number of pointers I had broke over me. I had so many detention hours. during grade school I had to show up during the summer to work them off. I never once passed conduct finally after two years of College with them. We mutally agreed to part company, I wouldn't give up the woman and booze. You know I wouldn't have missed it for world. It was great education, and nobody ever tried peek in my knickers. You know they never gave up on me, and were always fair. They were never satisfied until you gave it your best shot. They never took any crap from students or parents. I was listening at a door one time when one of wealthier students parents were called in. They were whining that it wasn't Johnny fault, the kid was a lying sneek, they were polite and said take Johnny to some other school. The parents came unglued, yelling threatening etc. Four nuns escorted them to door and said don't come back! Some other time I tell ya about listening to people in confession, it was the altar boys best past time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 I absolutely refused to attend a Catholic high school after eight years of gender segregation--or sorta, anyway. The local Catholic high schools were either girls' school or boys' school--totally segregated. I couldn't accept that after so many years of stunted social growth. So I went to a halfway decent, newly-built suburban high school and bumbled thru that. On one hand, the quality of Catholic grammar school education and the basic discipline instilled therein was GOOD, but the constant religion-down-your-throat and gender separations were unhealthy. Not every boy wants to enter the priesthood, for pete's sake, and not every girl wants to enter the convent. Social isolation was injurious and slowed my maturity by years!!! On the other hand, I was the class goof-off and got a recognition award for it. I could successfully pass notes in class under just about ANY circumstance. One develops a system of allies and briberies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AikiDale Posted April 2, 2007 Author Share Posted April 2, 2007 What a small world. I did 8 years in Catholic elementary and 2 in High School, all male, most of the teachers were priests, a couple of Franciscan Brothers and laymen. The elementary school nuns were proficient with both pointer and ruler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 Notice how we all think of it as "did" "had to" when we speak of the years spent in parochial school, like it was jail time, yet we universally appreciate the level of learnin' they imparted to us. In my case any knowledge imparted musta' been beat into my sorry head! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyinBlue Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 The librarian at our high school was fond of a certain punishment where you were required to stand with both arms straight out to the side with a big dictionary in each hand. And you had to stand for quite some time. It gave me really good upper body strength which helps in shooting. Thanks Sister Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cking Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 All of mine were Co-ed, thank God!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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