Morning announcements

[maeve66]

These are read every morning by "leadership students", e.g. Student Council members. This morning's history nugget was that X number of years ago (I don't recall what they said, because I wasn't listening until the following gem) "15,000 refugees left the kum-YOON-ist country of Cambodia, SUB-squinet to...." blah blah blah I stopped listening to marvel at those pronunciations, especially of communist. Oh, ancient history. Oh, students born in 1996, 1995, or 1994.

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[maeve66.livejournal.com]

Also, in middle school, I pretty much felt that being on Student Council was tantamount to being not the petty but the big bourgeoisie, and it took me quite some acrobatic rationalization to allow me to crush on a boy who was on the Student Council -- it helped that his mother was from the Italian CP and his father, the German CP (Oooh! A Eurocommunist and a Stalinist! That was like double the taboo attraction for a Trot like me, at age 14). Of course, given his parentage, Student Council membership was all the more a betrayal of his presumed class politics...

[maeve66.livejournal.com]

Also, I'm pretty sure I got both of these cartoon icons from you, by the way.

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

Not that one. The Hello Mao, though, yeah, I made that one.