NO it's not.

the wizard correcteth me, it's
"and so BETWIXT the two of them..."
geez, what's a poor word geek to do?

sorry, doesn't scan.
It's "and so between the two of them,
they licked the platter clean."

Too bad. I'm not taking it back.

No, that's from the Nursery rhyme, Jack Sprat-
"Jack Sprat would eat no fat , his wife would eat no lean,
So together they licked the platter clean."

Yeah, I actually got that when I looked at the whole thread instead of the recent posts part.

I USED to live just up the road from there, south of Parker. I am now serving a 2-year "no home loan" sentence in beautiful Reunion, 20 minutes NW of the airport, where the water is so hard you have to cut it with scissors to get a glassful and they're fracking right down the road.
I have friends in Colorado Springs - I always thought it would be a comfortable place to live, right ON a primary nuclear target, rather than in Boulder, where you'd have to deal with fallout [the nuclear kind, as well as what your hair does].

That's a weird rule.

lol

No... I don't like points.

why don't I get a point? it's CHEESE. the cheese stands alone. am I crazy here?

I was responding to LS's comments about paying for education. Wonky is paying his property taxes and it may very well be in his best interest to do so right now. you too.
hey, you live in Colorado? where bouts? I'm a Springs girl-well was before the galting

like no standardized tests?

I think I saw that.

Well, if you mean the ones on a house I own, yes - involuntarily. I now pay my landlord's property taxes. And yes, when I lived in my dream house, I did pay them [renting your house from the state?] because it was in my self-interest.
I always jump on the "I have no choice...." statements, because there's always a choice. It might be Liberty or Death, but it's a choice!

for goodness sakes. do I need to send you into Oakland to have a stimulating discussion with students who have been offered a "basic education?"

:-) I'm retired but still have to pay property (education) taxes. No rest for the leary.

just as you do, paying property taxes may be, at this point in time, rationally in his best interest. have you stopped paying yours?

I only know the Colorado law. Parents are required to send their children to school until they [the child, of course! Why can't we just speak Latin?] are 16. The state defines "school", but it is very broad and does include home-schooling. The Board of Education says they check up on home-schoolers, but it is very lax. This is, BTW, why most private schools here go only through middle school. There are stricter [and expensive] rules for High Schools, what they must teach, etc. and most independent schools can't meet them or are not willing to put their money there.

oh, this is for me. I'm coming to it from the bottom of the thread. on point 1. you pay for education whether you are "happy" doing so or not. just because it is in your rational best interest to do so does not mean "happy." you needed to articulate that in the first comment.
Point 2. manner in which I pay for it divided by my contribution does not equal happiness but something else. your happiness is irrelevant somehow to your contribution. Contribution is a freely given. Therefore contribution is tied to happiness. In this last statement you are making future decisions. that is not consistent with the comment before, and so new information.

oooooooooh, nice.

Mighty Mouse! He is here to save the day!
But you have to sing it while you're eating Rice Krispies, or it doesn't work.

Thanks. We sometimes got them before they were destroyed, and could do some good.

You know why programs for smart kids have a higher-than-average proportion of males? Because boys who are bored with the 784th math worksheet make the paper into an airplane and throw it, and get it trouble, and get tested, yada yada. Bored girl, however, turn the paper over and quietly draw a picture of a house. They hide. grrrr.

Oh whoa whoa. Can I just give you a point instead and we'll call it even?

Let them eat cake.

Anything run by government union is inherently evil. Thumbs up for the topic.