I was being totally serious. I have spent the last seven years teaching at the college level, and I believe it is a career worth pursuing.
Teachers, I know, are easy to make fun of. The old saw is Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.
I would add to that, Those who can't teach Mock those who do.
-------------------- The Semi-Great Gildersleeve - writing, super-heroes, and this 'n' that
From: The Stasis Zone | Registered: Jul 2003
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quote:Originally posted by He Who LSHes: I want to reiterate that the Hot 100 is all done in fun, and that no one should post just for the sake of increasing his or her post count.
If moving up the chart is the only or even the main reason for visiting Legion World, then maybe the Hot 100 has outlived its usefulness.
What does Chuck Berry's Sweet Little Sixteen have to do with this, other than the fact that it was a #2 hit on the Hot 100 (I think that was the name of it then) Billboard chart and #1 for Billboard R&B Bestsellers in stores in 1958?
Some time ago, I read that Chuck Berry wrote the lyrics after seeing a teen at one of those multi-act 'calvalcade of stars' concerts running around getting the musicians' autographs, but not really paying too much attention to the MUSIC. (Sweet little sixteen/she just has to have/about half a million/framed autographs.) Hey, I've been there --- not with pop stars but school yearbooks. I got my friends to sign, and then it turned into getting everyone to sign. That didn't hurt anything, but having the kid who sat two rows over in social studies (who seemed perfectly nice, but I'd barely ever talked to) put her signature in my yearbook doesn't mean anything, either. Maybe instead of asking for a signature on the last day of school, I could have asked don't-know-her-well Julie how her weekend was on some gray Monday in January, or seems-nice Brian if he had read anything else by the author whose book he was carrying in March. Missed opportunities.
Let's rock on with our bad selves, Legion World, to the music. We even have threads for writing songs --- here's one of 'em.
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or you can do the confusion 'til your head falls off
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quote:Originally posted by He Who LSHes:
quote:Originally posted by future king: I think November might just be the month that I hit a thousands posts in one month! Time will tell I guess.
I want to reiterate that the Hot 100 is all done in fun, and that no one should post just for the sake of increasing his or her post count.
If moving up the chart is the only or even the main reason for visiting Legion World, then maybe the Hot 100 has outlived its usefulness.
Without the Hot 100, I'll have to jot down my post count at the end of each month if I want to keep track of how many posts I manage to produce every thirty days.
Well, life has its trials, I suppose.
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From: Vanity, OR | Registered: Dec 2008
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Excuse me but can you please direct me to the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles?
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I certainly wouldn't want to see the Top 100 disappear! I like visiting this website, and interacting/connecting with other members on here... it's a great way to pass the time for me.
My comment was just me dreaming I guess. As if I have any real chance to ever hit 1000 posts in a month!
From: ontario | Registered: Feb 2007
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Once upon a time, back in the early days of Legion World, we used to have a post counter that displayed a poster's post total on each individual post. The mods decided to remove it, because it seemed to be encouraging spammy behavior in order to increase post counts.
We also used to start welcome threads for each new poster, but we had to discontinue them because certain people started bumping all of them in order to increase their post count, and now I really miss them.
From: Liberty City | Registered: Jul 2003
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I guess this kind of depends on what the focal points of this website is supposed to. I come from comic book forums where the focal points were articles and games (Tournaments, Mafias, Towers, you named it I probably have seen or ran it). You have not lived until you have argued to fine points of whether Superman-Prime or Vulcan could win in a fight. While I appreciate well written articles I prefer games (especially RPGs) more, which is why this eventually became my main forum.
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From: Illinois | Registered: Jun 2010
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Emily, you raise a good point... what IS the focal point of LW these days??
I've been online-hanging around a bunch of these guys since like 1999 *glares at Cobie* ...and it always evolves. Maybe that evolution is what keeps it relevant to us all. *ponders drunkenly, sips cocktail, burps*
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It's not like LW is being choked with post-pumping spamminess. I don't see many pointless threads. Inane, for sure, and quite a few don't interest me, but not pointless. In each one, at least two people are finding something worth their time or the thread fades away.
Most nights, I don't go to a bar or the backyard and hang out with my buds. (None of my local buds know squat about Legion anyway.) I come to LW to chill, laugh, commiserate, and plague you guys...and sometimes to be serious about social ills and Legion stories.
Folks who are looking just for Legion/comic discourse can find it here. Even better is that you can also sit at the cool table and talk about anything. It's dope.
-------------------- "Been killed--didn't like it." (Duplicate Damsel, Legion of Super-Heroes #10)
From: Groga | Registered: Aug 2003
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quote:Originally posted by LASHbrain: Emily, you raise a good point... what IS the focal point of LW these days??
I've been online-hanging around a bunch of these guys since like 1999 *glares at Cobie* ...and it always evolves. Maybe that evolution is what keeps it relevant to us all. *ponders drunkenly, sips cocktail, burps*
My God, but we're getting old...
From: Turn around... | Registered: Jul 2003
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Dev, I know right!!! *examines wrinkles in mirror, applies Oil of Olay*
quote:Originally posted by Legion Tracker:
Folks who are looking just for Legion/comic discourse can find it here. Even better is that you can also sit at the cool table and talk about anything. It's dope.
Hyperpath: Email this page to someone!
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