I am laughing so hard!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You made my day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Barb F.
----- Original Message -----
From: S Krause <frostyoranges@hotmail.com>
To: ArtsEdNet Talk <artsednet@lists.pub.getty.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 5:45 PM
Subject: Re: on a lighter note...
> Oh! Y'all want hilarity, try papermaking with an all-boys high school
class
> (or any middle school class I'm sure). There are SO MANY TERMS to evoke
the
> giggling. They seemed to think that the word "deckle" was hilarious (as
in
> "mould & deckle") - I'm not sure why THAT one was funny - but oh,
everything
> else. One that's sure to get them started is telling them about
"couching"
> the sheets - it rhymes with smooching, and evokes something else for them.
> Never tell high school boys to set up a "couching station." That's bad
> enough...but there are a few terms I completely skipped with one group
since
> I knew they couldn't handle it. Like - this is a good one - when you
> agitate the fibers in the vat with your hand, it's called "hogging the
> slur!" "Don't forget to hog the slur" - oh dear --
>
> But the BEST part of this whole story was that I brought in a guest
> papermaker to do a workshop with freshmen boys, and she wasn't thinking
> about double entendres. So not only did they have to "hog the slur" and
> couch - but, my favorite, they found out that "the longer you beat it, the
> stiffer it gets" (the longer you beat the fibers, the stiffer the
resulting
> paper will be). AAAGH!!! I nearly fell over. Oh, and don't forget to do
> such-and-such or else the paper will "cockle." Now these are all proper
> terms, but so Beavis & Butthead-worthy for 9th graders...she kept coming
out
> with doozies like that and though these 9th-grade boys were STRUGGLING to
> control themselves (as she in blissful ignorance kept on hogging the slur)
I
> wanted to say, "Ok! Forget it! Class dismissed!" It was SOOOOOOOOOooooo
> funny...
>
> Stephanie
>
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