Cost me $100 ! Worth every penny!

Tough class...pretty smart kid! You sure he's from Missouri?

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I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think I'm more proud of that than I was when I heard his name announced as a starter in his first college baseball game.

Sure, I believe you - I think

Seriously, that indeed is outstanding news

He also got an A in Biology, which makes me think I should get DNA testing done on him to make sure he really IS my Son.

My college GPA was the square root of my wife's college GPA.

Seriously, she was a 4.0, I was a 2.0.

She actually taught me what a square root was!
I always thought it was the result of a bad circumcision?

I stay far away from Econ and Bio here, I'm just not interested enough to put the work in that is necessary to do well in those classes. Thank goodness I AP'd out of the science requirement!

Fiction Writing 201 should be the only blemish to my GPA, but I'm not complaining, this school actually made me enjoy studying!

Hahaha, ECON! The class my son was dreading the most, AND had been told by virtually everyone to avoid a certain prof at all costs (extremely tough grader). Well, the only section available was with this guy...........and guess who his favorite professor turned out to be? That's right. Son got a B+ in there (very rare) and this prof flicked a switch on inside him. He's taking him again for another ECON class next semester.

Praise the good profs who challenege the kids to the utmost (even if it means being 'disliked').

I hear ya Krak. Good for your son!

Because athletes get no preference at son's university, class selection is based on seniority in credits. So, having to maneuver around practices/weight lifting and bullpens, players have to take the best available course time rather than get to cherry pick the professor.

My son always checks Ratemyprofessor.com to get a look at his "chosen" professor. Without fail 2 or 3 always have less than glowing ratings, with their share of disparaging comments from former students.

So it is off to class with Miss "Complete Tool" and Mr "Don't expect an A" each semester. I tell him suck it up, it could be worse, you could be in engineering. Without fail he ends up getting along well with both the downers and the glowers and within 2 or 3 weeks figures out how to get it done.

I tell him he won't be able to pick his boss(es) someday, so why get used to doing so now. Ultimately, it prepares them for life by having to play the hand they are dealt anyway.

My Econ professor for whatever reason thought I knew the price of weed and meth. It came up multiple times throughout the semester and he'd ask me thinking I knew. Not sure how that started.. Might have been because I was one of only a few actually awake, I don't know...

bulldog, I'd say your prof was fishing for a supplier.

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Bulldog, your story brings back memories to me. Twisted memories, I think.

In our Econ 101 class we had a text book that used an economic example to open each chapter. Our book featured water pipes and drive-in movie pants as recurring items in all of these examples.

Even I thought it was odd that the author would match up plumbing supplies with some sort of task specific clothing. How strange?

I guess I wasn't hip because I didn't figure it out until after the class was completed that the water pipe was for weed and not for conveyance of fresh water. And the drive-in movie pants evidently were what you would wear to make the 'goings on' in the backseat much easier.

Now I know water pipes are still around, but the drive-in movie pants? I'm still not quite sure what they are.

Neither item helped me understand my Econ class at all. I remember always scratching my head and thinking that the author was one strange bird. Water pipes...boring! Drive-in movie pants...what in the dickens are they? Trying to make sense of those two items at the beginning of each chapter really just added to my overall befuddlement.

Now fellow HSBB websters, drive-in movie pants, does anyone know what they are exactly? Help me ease my wooly old mind. I promise I won't blush with embarrassment.




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http://www.thaicraftwarehouse....uct.php?fashid=11630

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Wow! Thanks Ken. I found this somewhere related to the link you provided...

How to tie drive-in movie pants

There are four strings used to tie drive-in movie pants, two attached to each half of the pants. Position one half of the pants in front of your legs and wrap the two strings around your waist so they can be tied at your back, bring the pants between your legs so the remaining half of the pants are positioned at your back, wrap the last two strings around to the front of your waist and tie them.

And Bob's your uncle, right 20dad?

Me? I think I'll stick with my 501's ©!



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Gitnby, sounds like you should send his mom to the spa to thank her for the smart genes.

Fun thread.

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Yeah...and stay away from those other jeans!




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Now fellow HSBB websters, drive-in movie pants, does anyone know what they are exactly? Help me ease my wooly old mind. I promise I won't blush with embarrassment.

Woody, not only am I completely shocked you don't know what these are, but that you don't have at least a half dozen pictures of them to post!

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Well mood...

Since " You Asked For It"



Here are a half dozen photos I pulled off my downstairs refrigerator door when I thought of drive-in movie pants. I'm still more confused than that lady selling insurance for Progressive©!

And the award for the "Least amount of posts to take the thread the farthest away from the original post" goes to.......?

We went from an Economics grade to drive-in pants?

Not sure even Yogi Berra could explain this one?

Hurry up, Spring season, we're all goin nuts here!

Should players start wearing walk-off pants?

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No, they should drive-in runs.



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"We went from an Economics grade to drive-in pants?"

Unbelievable isn't it? If I ever run into that author I'm going to let him have it with a sharp demand curve. Or maybe a double check valve...something I can understand.



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