February 27, 2007
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Childhood Pranks of the famous.
Tad Lincoln, my favorite historian child. He was the son of President Lincoln. The boy was playfully commissioned a colonel, complete with uniform and sword, and sometimes reviewed the troops with his father.
Tad would play a lot of tricks in the White House. One famous incident, Tad and his friends hitched 2 goats to a dining room chair and drove it into a sitting room where the 1st lady was giving a tour of the White House to distinguished guests from Boston. Mom was not happy. Staff was able to get the goats out of the White House.
The White House had a series of cables and pulleys allowing bells to ring, summoning servants. Tad discovered a way to chime all the bells at once, sending servants in all directions.
Quentin Roosevelt son of Theodore Roosevelt.
Once he threw a snowball and angered a passerby. A Police Officer chased him down the street. Seeking sanctuary in the British Embassy, he shouted back to the officer, “This is English ground! You cannot come in here!”Quentin was know as part of the “White House Gang”.
What were some of the pranks you played when you were young? or your children have played?
Parental Rights Under Attack in Massachusetts
Judge Wolf told parents that the schools has a right and an obligation to teach same-sex relationships – homosexuality/lesbianism, even in the elementary schools — and that parents’ rights end at the schoolhouse door.
I personnally would be outraged. My tax dollars are going to support education of what I feel is so wrong. Gay rights is taking away others rights.
What would be your response if your Public School began to teach your child that same-sex relationships are good?
Comments (49)
Well lets see..
-there was this time where my sister had my pretend to be a celebrity on MSN to her friend and her friend believed me for like a whole summer and stll never found out
-times when i would just hide and boom, appear out of no where as my sister screamed wildly in fear.
-fake bugs on my sister, “OMG AHHHH”
well I’m not sure, theres definitely more I just can’t think of any good ones right now.
yup no problem!
LMAO
how are ya
when I was younger like 10yrs old I used to do with a friend’s house and open yellow phone book and pick random pple name and call them and ask for certain name and then give them hard time about it.
haha i like the latter. We used to do all sorts of mischeavous things. Umm, a favorite of the neighborhood was the fart bomb. We also enjoyed leaving these fart bombs after ding dong ditching, a mixture of the two. there were these fruits that exploded on contact leaving permanent stains….got the cops called on us for that one..woops. haha, we moved a ramp at a skatepark so that the perfect placing of everything was off. told a skateboarder that jumping over a two foot high wall led to a five foot drop. it was 15. that was pretty funny. yeah
Derek
lol
yup
except that would be lmeo
lol (laugh out loud)
j/k (just kidding)
rotflol (rollong on the floor laughing out loud)
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i dont play pranks
i am just a beeyotch
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-bree
sorry I accident delete ur comment, ment to click on ur name…
no never get caught cause we don’t do it often only wkend
Ryc yup the robins are back it is Spring here. Judi
RYC: thanks SO MUCH for your suggestions..gettysburg is a new one for me. still looking for time to research deeper. this holiday is gonna cost a lot so i’m def planning it well
which question are u referring to, randy? the one where u asked me to inform u once i figured it out. i’m sorry, i didnt update my xanga lately so i’m not with the flow.
i was a goody two shoes as a child, not much of a prankster. in fact, i was one of those know-it-all kids who told pranksters off. the one who said things like, ooh you’ll be in big trouble if mommy/daddy finds out what u did, or, what you’re doing is morally wrong so stop it or God will punish u/Karma will come get u. Sigh. I was such a boring kid.Cant wait to have mischievous kids one day to enlighten me
RYC: I do it almost everyday =D
No snow here
Snow stinks
Except sometimes I hide things from people. But they never notice!! It’s so annoying. I’m too stupid to think up good pranks 
I’m a failure
I never play pranks. I am a good girl.
well, how about tie a tiny piece of string onto a persons door knocker and unwind it and hide behind the hedge….tapping the door slowly to the point they actually open it, then pull quickly and remain still…the door opens and nobody is there……haha the kids of yesteryear used to do that
Very funny.
I wasn’t much of a prankster…but if I did something…it probably involved beating up my sister and trying to get out of it later. ^^
I am afraid I was boring…..never much of a prankster. My 20 mnth baby girl is a bit of a tease, if that counts. She likes to hide things from us, and has taken to hiding herself in the corner of the bathroom and then covers herself with a towel so all you can see are her little feet sticking out.
i played nigger knock haha
lol, Tad Lincoln is cool.
Hmm..I forgot what pranks we did when we were kids. Come to think of it, I never really played pranks to anyone. lol
lol.. the weather here isnt that facinating/interesting.
theres only rainy and no rainy season.
wow you guys have a winter chinese new year is it?
lol, that’s cute. kids think of the weirdest pranks.
<3 Alexis
good to hear from you, have a good day
cute stories! i don’t remember playing pranks…i was never that original i guess
My response would be immediate: I would put my child in a religious school. As a matter of fact…but for different reasons…that’s exactly what I did with our son.
Being a twin, I wish I could say we traded places at school or something as a prank…..but we never did.LOL
LOL
We used to live next to a fast food resturant when I was growing up. I would always hop the fence and mess with the people in drive through by ordering crazy things. I would never go to the window, I would just stay at the speaker box. I eventually got in trouble from my grandma.
Six years ago I was at the cottage with my parents, my sister, her friend, and my friend. My sister and her friend were being brats so my friend and I collected 8 frogs and put them in their beds and clothing and told them to have fun trying to find all 9. They spent hours looking for the 9th frog haha The next day, we hung my sister’s underwear on the flagpole at the end of the dock. In retrospect it was a little overly mean but it was hilarious at the time.
I was a nice kid =P
I would hope they would know from teaching at home that this is wrong as well as other things that schools teach as fact. I would like to shield them from the world, and if it were too tough I would probably try to find alternative schooling. Some where along the way they need to learn to be in the world but not of this world.
Regarding the public school’s teaching of homosexuality, I’d take it to court. It goes against my religious beliefs and practices for that to be taught as morally acceptable. Forcing my children to sit through that is an encroachment of my first amendment rights. If they insist on teaching that in school, then I would insist that my child be allowed to go to a study hall instead of that class (and pray). Parents’ rights do NOT end at the schools’ doors. If their rights end there, then the taxes should too. Oh, wait, you want my money but not everything comes with it? It doesn’t work that way!
Judge Wolf is appropiately named. Beware of the Wolf in sheep”s clothing!!! Just the idea of teaching such a salacious subject is “completely” out of order in “any” school system. “That” is a prime example of the Biblical warning of making good evil and evil good. This is a public display of slapping the face of Almighty God.
There is much to be said for home schooling or parochial school training. Besides going the route of organizing and participitating in protests to have this subject squashed, I would also attempt to have Judge Wolf disbarred.
if they were teaching it was good i would be outraged if they were teaching it as historical or social comment i would accept it right or wrong it is a growing fact & statistic of society today as prophesized as war is as slavery etc if brought up i would hope to be able to answer questions in the sancitity of my home how many parents bring it up now leaving the children to fend for themselves on answers ? much like our parents did for us on sexual issues times are changing so is the fabric of society regardless of personal views or wishes i remember when divorce was a taboo subject now it is the “norm” you ask good questions 7777
The only thing I could think of is frank calling people. Most of the time I do it to my Mom, I would block my number and start talking in a different voice. It’s so funny!!! She always gives the phone to my sister which would then hang up the phone if she doesn’t recognize the voice. I would do it with my nieces too. I am the youngest of 7 and all my sibling has kids. Being the youngest I am close to all my nieces because I used to play with them. Until I got a family of my own.
Nothing major.
Teachers are not always right, but God is (i.e. God knows what’s best for the human soul as well as what’s hurtful to the soul.).
HA! Pranks as a child……… hmm I’m sure I particiapted in some, but I don’t recall them. I love a good prank though.
We have certainly backed ourselves in a politically correct corner, haven’t we? Geez. Anyway, I would probably threaten to switch my children’s school. If that wasn’t an option, though, I would treat it like I do the theory of revolution that is taught in school. The fact is that kids are going to be exposed at one time or another to things that are not in accordance to our faith. I tell C (She’s the only one in school so far) that she is going to be taught things that go against what the Bible teaches. We teach her the truth, and she holds that close to her heart. Sometimes when she gets home we have a good chuckle over things that are taught in Science like that the world is BILLIONS AND BILLIONS of years old. She knows it’s not true or right, so she doesn’t take it completely seriously. As long as we teach them the truth, whatever the world brings to them will be shot down.
BTW – Hubby doesn’t mind holding my purse, but he won’t DARE stick his hand in it! =)
Homeschool them! Duh!
RYC: Not 10 days off… 10 days without a day off. That is not as fun!
Yes, he does, thanks for asking. He has ear infection. He still home and still crying about it but I’ve seen him smile this morning so he is getting better.
I would, first, remove my child from school and either homeschool of privately educate them.
Simultaneously, however, I would file an appeal of Judge Wolf’s ruling to the Massachusetts Supreme Court.
The way things have gone in the past, though, I would be prepared to take it to SCOTUS.
Me? Id breathe deeply and relax for a second. Then continue on until straights and gays finally have equal rights.
Although, I can see where you are coming from. I thought sex ed. was a parental signiture required class? i guess that changed…
Well, there is private school that will not teach that, but private school screws up kids lives, so I wouldnt do that either.
A happy median. Make both sex ed, and same sex ed optional classes, one is required, both is suggested.
Derek
“RYC: It’s like I’ve said, It’s not about gayrights. It’s about taking away my rights and we see that in MA. (Your rights are political, granted by the goverment)
I will continue to believe homosexuality is wrong and my Freedom of Speach is threatened. (Freedom of Speach…Speech?, I dont know…is also political, granted by the goverment)
I’m outraged that this is happening in America and being forced upon the children. It’s my tax dollars that is funding the Public Schools. (Tax money is payed to our goverement….A political house)
Private schools has to be paid by private people not tax dollars. (And your right, but if the goverment payed for it, they would have say in what was taught there)
Where is the seperation of state & religion? Homosexuality is a religious matter! The Bible says it’s wrong. (and this is religious, not political, except for the seperation of church and state. I am sure you see what I am saying.)”
RYC: If homosexuality is a religious matter, then wouldn’t all religions, athiest, agnosticism (spelling??), Wiccan, far left Christian churches, all have a say in the matter? Sorry that my comment is so long.
Thanks for stopping by and for the kind words.
Old Hat
There’s nothing like a good practical joke to make life more entertaining.
ok, i see your point. But before that was there, wouldn’t the homosexual’s freedom of speach been silenced?
wow….do you really think it is a choice? I mean sure for some, but is it a choice for others? Have you ever talked to people who are homosexual? Asked them about it? I am sure they would answer your questions as long as you didn’t condemn them in the process. Talk to someone sometime. Ask.
I wont even try to change your mind for those that choose. Haha, my dad’s a pastor, I know that it is impossible to change someone’s mind about religion
Derek
heh
now there’s a history book kids would love!
thanx
thanks for the props this fine day…
have a great Hump day…(Wednesday)
That isnt what I said at all, although it was a good twist. There is the study on genetics. What you said is like me beeing born blind and you saying “you have freewill, choose to see”. While it may work with Benny Henn (hahaha), it doesnt work with the rest of us. Now please dont twist these words and say that being gay is a defect. Not true at all. I am just saying that you may be born with preset inclinations towards a specific gender. Maybe a better example, isntead of blindness, would be tastebuds. I dont like speggetti. I cannot simply choose one day to like speggetti. It has nothing to do with freewill.
Derek
My nine year old son had me convinced that he had gotten into a fight at school and was sent to the principles office and got suspended from school. In the back of my mind I knew something was not right with his story, but, he was so convincing.. did not even laugh.. he was almost in tears… then I thought, why didn’t the school call me? So, I picked up my cell phone and he said, “What are you doing?” I said I was calling the school to see why they didn’t call me! It was then he said he was joking! It even took a few minutes of convincing me he was joking…
what’s even crazier is that he has never been in a fight at school, he’s a little pansy! ha! But he was so convincing… that’s scary! ha!
We do have gays and lesbians in our schools, teachers and kids (high school). So, if they decided to teach about it, I believe there would be a HUGE revolt.. from the kids and parents… I would think there would have to be a waiver to sign or something…
Hugs!
thanks as well for taking time to read my posts. Hmm, yes, I see your point about fences as laws. It is good to put up fences for protection, otherwise, kids would bound to be in accidents.
So…with all this discussion about kids, I take it you are married and have kids?