On Tue, 13 May 2008 14:41:31 +0000, Larry <noone@home.com> wrote:

>Ron <ronclifford@peoplepc.com> wrote in
>news:lfvi24hakoou51rm33t9kb26891e8gl8sd@4ax.com :
>
>> My picture was in a National Magazine as the leading edge of the home
>> computer revolution, as in 1983; we had 2 computers in our home;
>> one for the kiddos, and one for the parents.
>>
>> But the children couldnt touch the computer till all their homework
>> was done, and couldn't play games on computer, till they had done 30
>> minutes of math drills I had programmed in Basic.
>>
>> Must of worked, they both graduated college Phi Beta Kappa
>> with 3.9+ GPAs; after having full academic scholarships.
>>
>>
>
>Congratulations on all points! Today's kids would be a lot better off if
>you handed them broken computer hardware or crashed software and told
>them they couldn't do their homework until they had fixed it. At least
>they would have demonstrable skills, unlike high school graduates.
>
>I have an English friend who lives in Atlanta. Many years ago he found a
>pasteboard box with a little black baby girl some crackheads had
>abandoned in one of Atlanta's biggest malls. A really good person, he
>followed her into the terrible socialist services debacle and ended up
>adopting her, the best thing that ever happened in her short life. A few
>years ago, she graduated near the top of her class in Nursing and is now
>a well-paid RN in a major hospital. My English friends are very well off
>in commercial construction and real estate making all this possible. She
>looks almost a match for Brandi, the beautiful singer.
>
>Whenever someone asks about his black daughter, he paints a terrible
>picture of him and a teenage prostitute. You have to know him to
>appreciate the dry English humor in all of it....(c;
>
>NOONE is more fun, drunk at a party....NOONE.


Not even George W. Bush ?