[TheForge] OT - The science of driving.

Tue Jan 20 22:15:01 2004

Cistercian College Prepatory School in Dallas.   Formed by Cistercian 
Monks from Hungary that escaped by any number of fascinating means from 
Hungary in the sixties.    Corporal punishment was an art form for them, 
each one had his own signature punishment, that ranged from tugging your 
sideburns to rapping your fingertips with a ruler.   The great thing 
about it was you could smart off in class, get the snot kicked out of 
you and when your parents picked you up after school and asked how you 
were doing, Fr Aurel would just say "His spanish is not so good, but his 
reflexes are improving".    A few years later I was being taught by nuns 
and it was daily parent teacher conferences.  I preferred the more 
direct approach of the monks.  Even later I was taught by Jesuit monks 
at Jesuit High School.   Got a great education and thanks to the fact 
that dad would arrive after school every day with his twenty year old 
truck with its signature garbage sack for a passenger window  and line 
up with all of the mercedes,   I never felt compelled  by peer pressure 
to fit in.  It was just never going to happen.

Charles

Andy Vida wrote:

>[email protected] wrote:
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>>You learn even quicker with a sadistic Hungarian Monk standing behind
>>you ready to pounce with his xylophone mallet.
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>	OK, I give up... where did you go to school and why with,
>	of all things, Hungarian monks?
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