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Skriven 2014-03-27 21:26:02 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 11402 av Dave Drum (74759.cooking)
Ärende: Rain In The Face
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Hi Dave,

 DD> raised the standards quite a bit. And not all of the instructors were,

 RH> Good--hate to send people out into the world under educated or
 RH> indoctrinated (brainwashed) by instructors who weren't hired to do
 RH> that. Unfortunately, a lot of public schools are in that situation now.

 DD> As far as I can see, with "peer grading" and "social promotion" public
 DD> schools are just tax-supported day care centres ... without the
 DD> (official) afternoon nap-time.

I think we'd be home schooling if we had kids at home now.

 DD> physical geography course from a guy who made it very interesting -
 DD> even though it was not the course I thought I was signing up to take.
 DD> To this day I remember the rainfall figures for Chirapungi, India
 DD> (allegedly the wettest place on earth).

 RH> I thought Waimea Canyon, on Kauai had that distinction.

 DD> Couple things - I mis-spelled Cherrapunji. And this was information
 DD> delivered by my Geography instructor, Ed Fitzgibbon, in 1969.
 DD> According to the WIKI - "It is credited as being the second wettest
 DD> place on Earth. However, nearby Mawsynram currently holds that record.
 DD> Though, it still holds the world record for the most rainfall in a
 DD> calendar month and in a year."

 DD> Turns out that Lloro, Columbia is the current world beater - with 524"
 DD> per year. The location mentioned in the Wiki - Mawsynram, India comes
 DD> a fairly distant second with 467" and your Mt. Waialeale, Kauai,
 DD> Hawaii close behind in third place with 460" of water down the back of
 DD> your slicker. SOURCE: NOAA's "National Climatic Data Center".

 DD> http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/globalextremes.html

OK, I'll take your word for it. Still, HI has the best scenery, and
maybe food, of the bunch.

 DD> mt degree to a UofI degree. So, I asked if it would make me any
 DD> smarter or just put money in their bank account. After some sputtering
 DD> on the other end I said "I thought not" and quietly hung up.

 RH> They didn't offer to ordain you at the same time for a slightly higher
 RH> fee? Back in the mid 70s NYC was grabbing up land in the Catskills and
 RH> declaring it for tax free uses. A number of folks in the area "got
 RH> ordained" by the Universal Life Church so they could declare their
 RH> property as "church held" and not pay taxes (which had increased by
 RH> NYC's shennanagans.

 DD> I am/was an ordained minister, then. I got one of those free
 DD> ordination certificates from them. But, we had a schism and I didn't
 DD> need the tax breaks anyway.

The farmers in NY did--milk prices were high but they were getting paid
next to nothing by the middle men. A lot of milk was dumped in that time
frame.
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Catch you later,
Ruth
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