Mikey wrote:The term "Stars and Bars" has been applied to both.
Huh? That's the first time I've heard the battle flag referred to as the Stars and Bars (which was my objection on both counts).
It's not as commonly used for that as for the blue quarter/three stripe flag, but it still gets mentioned that way at least colloquially. Which you had obviously figured out from context, and were just trying to sound erudite while off-handedly mentioning that they used the wrong term (instead of just saying it.)
I can't stand nothing dull
I got the high gloss luster
I'll massacre your ass as fast
as Bull offed Custer
Captain Seafort wrote:I'm an Englishman. If I wasn't constantly taking the piss you'd get worried that I'd been kidnapped and replaced with a continental simulacrum.
That's better.
I can't stand nothing dull
I got the high gloss luster
I'll massacre your ass as fast
as Bull offed Custer
I agree with Cenc. Classless dirtbags. Hopefully, the girl will go on to college and get the hell out of that podunk sh*thole.
There is only one way of avoiding the war – that is the overthrow of this society. However, as we are too weak for this task, the war is inevitable. -L. Trotsky, 1939
Seriously, they should be completely ashamed of themselves, and I love what the girl said about it. That it was the greatest, and all 7 people had a great time. So at least she got to say, ha you may have kicked me away, but you didn't win, you just looked like an ass.
"All this has happened before --"
"But it doesn't have to happen again. Not if we make up our minds to change. Take a different path. Right here, right now."
The deviousness of the human mind never ceases to amaze me. For good or ill, it seems to be only rarely paired with intelligence. Semantic tricks aside, this school and school board are basically in violation of a court order, no?
I can't stand nothing dull
I got the high gloss luster
I'll massacre your ass as fast
as Bull offed Custer
There is only one way of avoiding the war – that is the overthrow of this society. However, as we are too weak for this task, the war is inevitable. -L. Trotsky, 1939
Here's hoping the book gets thrown at them for that.
"You've all been selected for this mission because you each have a special skill. Professor Hawking, John Leslie, Phil Neville, the Wu-Tang Clan, Usher, the Sugar Puffs Monster and Daniel Day-Lewis! Welcome to Operation MindFuck!"
Mikey wrote:The deviousness of the human mind never ceases to amaze me. For good or ill, it seems to be only rarely paired with intelligence. Semantic tricks aside, this school and school board are basically in violation of a court order, no?
I'm going to guess that they had their party off school grounds and without school funds, which I would think would get around the court order. Unless it's now illegal to be able to hold private parties and choose who you invite to attend.
I figured they'd do that.
What I didn't see coming was the asshatery with tricking her and some special needs kids into going someplace else. Especially if it was orchestrated by adults as opposed to a kid or two.
From what I've read elsewhere, it seems to have been the parents who did this, and not any of the school officials (at least, not overtly). In which case there's nothing they can really do.
Except show them to be utter arseholes, which has been done quite nicely at this point.
"You've all been selected for this mission because you each have a special skill. Professor Hawking, John Leslie, Phil Neville, the Wu-Tang Clan, Usher, the Sugar Puffs Monster and Daniel Day-Lewis! Welcome to Operation MindFuck!"
Very good Mikey! 
Asshats.
