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US History- Thursday, October 3

Chuck arrived with his customary lateness, and set his briefcase down on his desk. "So. The United States constitution." He walked to the board, bent over, and picked up the chalk.

The United States Constitution

“After the Revolutionary war, the states drafted the Articles of Confederation. These sucked. There were various reasons why they sucked, among them the fact that this was a union, not a confederacy. As the US threatened to devolve into chaos, a leading delegation of statespersons gathered to create a better legal system. They decided to name their new document “The Constitution,” after Hamilton’s deceased mother.

As I hope you all know after years in the public school system, the Constitution set up the three branches of American government: The Judicial, the Legislative, and the One Who Actually Holds Power. These were all set with a system of checks and balances, (Hint: right down that phrase. It will be on the test,) to keep no one branch from becoming too powerful. Unfortunately, it was all too easy for the Branch that Actually Holds Power (aka the Executive branch) to wrest control of the country from the other two.

“Washington (who still was capable of ripping open skulls and eating the brains of his opponents, even in his old age), saw more problems. He warned that partisanship within the American people could lead to a rift. He spoke of bickering and strife among the public, bickering that not even threats of pulling the car over, so help me God could fix.

“The people did not heed Washington’s words, and divided into two parties: the Federalist party and the Ice-Cream party. The Ice-Cream party was very popular for a while, but when the chocolate and vanilla ran out, no one wanted to eat that stupid strawberry stuff, and they all left to form the anti-federalist party. Really, they just wanted to screw with the Federalist party, but they took it a bit too far. The United States has been a two-party system ever since, and we’ve since learned that it’s a good idea. Today, it saves people from having to decide on their own opinions. All they have to do is choose which party they support, and then they can have a set list of ideas. It’s a wonderful time saver."

Time was running out in class. “Yadda yadda, three-fifths compromise, yadda, great compromise, yadda yadda drama will we sign it? They did. The end.

Next week, in addition to your homework, I want you to prepare a short presentation on one of our founding fathers. Pick the one you hate the most, and tell us why you hate them, and how terrible they were.

“Any questions?”

[OOC: There shall be an OCD, oh such an OCD there shall be… and here it is!]

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You must be on time.

Not that your teacher would notice.

John Sheppard

Anathema Device

Liz Sherman

Faile

React to the lecture, take notes like decent children, pass notes like sneaky ninja.

Anathema was folding paper flowers since this class was closer to story time than anything else.

Faile was thinking more about the dance on Friday and how much of a fool she would feel if she did something wrong.

John wrote, "I'M BORED," on an airplane and threw it at her head.

Faile scribbled, Then tell me everything I need to know about going to Homecoming with a boy I've talked to twice, on the same sheet of paper.

She wadded it up into a ball and threw it back.

He gave her a thumbs up sign before writing underneath her note, Depends on the boy. Who're you going with?.

Jim Hallbert. I think that is his last name.

John laughed and replied, Jim is my soulmate. He liked being confusing.

Faile gave him a look. He could not mean what he wrote the way she was thinking of it.

What?

He and I had a date at the Three Minute Dates event, John explained. He wondered what she thought. What did you need to know about homecoming?

Faile did not wince at remembrance of the Three Minute Dates.

Tell me what happens at a school dance. How dressed up am I supposed to be? What will be expected of me once I get there?

This was gonna take awhile. John got out a fresh paper.

It's a big party. People hang out. There's a king and a queen of the party. The girls usually wear hot dresses. And you dance with your date and laugh at his jokes. Especially when they're not funny.

Are you going?

Yes.

Faile rolled her eyes at him. So informative.

Is it allowed for me to talk to you there?

No. You can only talk to your date. John was such an ass.

Why did I even ask you that? I don't know if you are telling me the truth.

John rolled his eyes. Of course you can talk to me there. I'll be the incredibly hot guy in the black suit.

Faile grinned at him.

I will be the one with Jim Hallbert.

Don't forget to walk to steps in front of him at all times.

Faile narrowed her eyes at John.

I am not doing that.

He went for completely innocent. But it's tradition! Jaina will walk in front of me.

It is not my tradition.

What's one of your traditions?

Not dancing in public. Only performers do that.

Consider yourself a performer for the night. He thought it was a good suggestion.

Faile had a hard time not laughing out loud when she read that.

My father would gut you for making that suggestion.

Good thing he's not here then. But seriously, dancing is fun.

I will have to wait and see.

Chuck was packing up his things.

"Excuse me, Mr. Noblet?" John asked, walking up to the teacher after class. He was on a mission from GOB.

Chuck snapped his briefcase shut. "Yes, John?"

"Mr. GOB was told me the other night that you're a drunken thug. I wanted to get your opinion on his position," John said.

Chuck gave a blank stare. It took a moment for this to register.

"What?"

apparently it didn't register at all.

~~True story: I was going to respond to this last night, but I got so caught up in explaining Stargate to my roomie that I forgot. XD~~

Wow, this guy was good. Maybe he knew about the free beer for insults thing Mr. GOB had going.

"You're a drunken thug." It was easy to say that to a teacher who thought there was an ice cream party during the constitutional convention. Not that John knew there wasn't.

Chuck glared. Where did John hear this? It wasn't exactly true, but he could be insinuating something else. Chuck had make some odd choices when he was drunk.

"Who told you that?! It isn't true!"

"Mr. GOB told me," he lied. "But I'm sure you're not. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to teach as well as you do."

Chuck's eyes narrowed. "Thank you for bringing this to my attention, John. You... you run along and have fun, okay?"

"Thanks sir!" John replied happily.

That presentation is handwavey, of course, but you could use it to let out irrational frustration via ranting. ^_^ Good times, good times.
Tiny jokes stolen from Brad Neely and Dave Barry. But only two.

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