On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 12:15:39 +0900, "Ben Bullock" <usenet@sljfaq.org>
brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:

>
>"Pieter Mioch" <pmioch@ZZTOPma.ccnw.ne.jp> wrote in message 
>news:dbc9vg$hei$1@cmcnews.ccnw.ne.jp...

>> When parents visit the school for PTA meetings, anything can happen.
>>
>> "Right in the middle of a PTA meeting, a bunch of mothers started yakking
>> with each other in a loud voice," recalls a 38-year-old mother. "If you 
>> ask
>> them to lower their voices, they give you a nasty glare. They're no
>> different from their kids."
>
>Have you ever attended a Japanese "kouminkan" English class? That sounds 
>like some people in some English classes too. "Right in the middle of an 
>English class, a bunch of mothers started yakking with each other in a loud 
>voice".

I've not only attended them, I've taught them. Damned good money for
very little work. At least at the places I taught it was.

I've recently started going to "Caribbean Beach", a publicly operated
indoor pool facility not too far from my home. Three heated pools,
sauna, etc. Very nice place with very reasonable rates.

The first time I used the sauna was on a weekday afternoon. It was
very quiet and peaceful in there. Just a couple or three guys, no
chatting.

The second time I used it was on a weekday evening. The difference was
astounding. I thought I had blundered into an old hens' cacklefest.
There were only three old women raising the ruckus, but they made
enough noise for thirty. The most interesting thing was that the one
who generated the most noise would have made an excellent
ventriloquist. She could pour out high decibel blather while hardly
moving her lips at all. At a glance, you would never know she was
speaking.






--

Michael Cash

"Clowns to the left of me and jokers to the right, Mr. Cash.
Clowns and jokers."

                                Prof. Ernest T. Bass
                                Mount Pilot College