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30 May 2006

Real life ag (shop) teacher sayings: My shop teacher was a fat old cowboy, and his two favorite sayings were: "hey boys! stop grabassin' around and get to work!" or "hey boys! stop playin' pocket pool and go clean out the tool room!" Good times. Good times.

post by: bjork24 at: 22:42 | 12 comments

Our shop teacher had one eye from the war, and once threw a hammer at a student.

posted by StickyCarpet 30 May | 23:09

Don't ALL shop teachers have some disfiguring injury?

posted by wendell 31 May | 01:28

I still remember my homeroom teacher in the 5th grade used to stomp into the hall when we were too loud, screaming, "It sounds like a Chinese circus out here!" ("It saands laak a Chaaneeze circus out heeah!" in a deep Southern accent. I lived in MS). Not a shop teacher, but your post reminded me.

posted by misozaki 31 May | 02:18

Ours put one guy's head into a drill press and pretended to lower it down. He was a huge Scottish SOB built like the fucking mouthbreathing sadistic blacksmith that he was.

posted by rumple 31 May | 02:52

"Ya'int half sanded 't nuff yet"

posted by Wolfdog 31 May | 06:59

I had a drama teacher who liked to say, "You're all just standing around like sausages waiting for a plate!" In a british accent.

posted by JanetLand 31 May | 07:03

Ooops, that's not shop either. I'll be awake soon.

posted by JanetLand 31 May | 07:04

I only had shop once, in seventh grade. Our instructor was a fairly mousy fellow, short of stature and calm of temperament. Consequently, I have no vivid shop class memories, nor do I remember anything I learned in that class at all. It's jest not lernin if you aint afeard.

posted by Eideteker 31 May | 07:50

Our shop teacher had one eye from the war, and once threw a hammer at a student.

And, oh yeah, the reason he threw the hammer was because the little hoodlum let him hear our nickname for the shop teacher: cyclops.

posted by StickyCarpet 31 May | 08:27

If something is hard, like a kind of wood, or a hardened *um* screw. . .one can say:

This is harder than my dickie on a payday night.

For some reason, that has always stuck in my mind. An old irish coworker who dispensed tools said it

posted by danf 31 May | 10:00

I've never had a shop teacher.

I did, however, during an interlude on the other side of the Atlantic, have a games mistress, Miss Thorburn. As we scampered around the frost-covered field shivering in our thin Aertex shirts and short skirts, lizard-like Miss Thorburn watched us from the shelter of her huge bundle of duffel coat and wool flannel scarf, blinking slowly. At intervals she'd rouse herself to boom:

RUN, GIRLS. RUN.

posted by tangerine 31 May | 11:36

games mistress.

I like how that sounds.

posted by rumple 31 May | 14:27

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