24 Signs You Went to Catholic School

[likethebeer]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjkiebus/signs-you-went-to-catholic-school-6ygq

#7: "You've never been hit by a ruler, but you're still wary of nuns." True.

Although #5 didn't happen to me, "You have had to dress as an angel at some point in your life," I did play one of the women who weeps while Jesus is carrying his cross during a Stations of the Cross play when I was in the 8th grade.

.... I wonder if there's a pithy way to put into a photo + caption on what effect not having to worry about what you're going to wear that day (except for clean socks & blouses) does to your sense of "style".

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Re: They sent my sister packing at that age, too

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

I saw the Dead a bit, but it never occurred to me to follow them. And I was living on the East Coast, where going to see them cost a lot of money. And I didn't have the wherwithall to make sell things in order to follow them.

Oh, yes: being an atheist would have made required religion classes in Catholic school an extra-special waste of time. I'm agnostic.

Re: They sent my sister packing at that age, too

[immemor.livejournal.com]

I saw the Dead once. We were in the Loge. Remember that day in physics class when they taught you about how smoke rises? All that secondhand marijuana smoke drifted up and right to our box. My friend was too high to drive home at first. We had to wait it out in the parking lot.

I entertained myself by making jokes about it in my head. They were teaching religion; I was learning satire.

Re: They sent my sister packing at that age, too

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

I tried, but never got, a contact high. Then realized after several years that I didn't like this stuff. Although I bought other things (which were also a part of my youth) at Dead shows. Things that didn't have fumes associated with them (oh: and weren't addictive or deadly).

I've been to 9 shows, which for Dead heads is nothing. It was fun - you could dance like crazy and nobody thought a thing.

As for religion, I was a total believer. Slowly started to move away when I was a Jr. or Sr. In part because I began to learn about what I call "the other history of the Catholic church." The stuff we didn't learn in religion classes: the Popes & Bishops with mistresses & illegitimate children, the selling of indulgences for centuries.... I was offended that a church that instilled in me a desire for truth would lie to me so blatantly. I only realized I was no longer Christian in my early 20s.

If you've got any jokes that read well, go ahead.

Re: They sent my sister packing at that age, too

[immemor.livejournal.com]

Thinking about it, he may not have been high. He was a pilot and never did any illegal substances. He may have just been nauseous and didn’t know the difference. Zima and secondhand smoke – yeah, we knew how to party.

Was it anything like that time I tried to mail a letter using a Bevis and Butthead stamp and, next thing I knew, the room was full of pretty colors? Hmmmm, never did get that letter mailed.

I only saw the Dead once. But I’ve managed to see almost every one I wanted to see - except Nirvana and Radiohead.

This is embarrassing, but I’ll tell you anyway. When I was 25, I lived in a house with a bunch of other guys and they were talking about Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation and I had no idea what they were talking about. Seems Catholic schools skipped that chapter when I took world history.

I don’t really have “a priest, a monkey and Charles Darwin walk into a bar” kind of jokes. It’s more abstract ideas that I (because I’m warped) find funny. Like, if Jesus was perfect, why did he need to be circumcised? Or, the teaching of Noah’s Ark to kids (because kids like animals) creates the hysterical oxymoron: a story of genocide for children. I’m writing (and yet another) novel and some of these ideas are working their way into it.

Re: They sent my sister packing at that age, too

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

Oh - they covered the Reformation after 9th grade. "The church sold some indulgences, and it was bad, then Martin Luther came up, the Catholic church reformed itself, and it's all been good since then." I remember learning about it because "The Diet of Worms" made us all laugh.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diet_of_worms

I had no idea that 1968 was a year of huge social upheaval in Europe until I was in grad school. It was germane to what we were talking about & fortunately, my professor learned that I had no idea & talked about it in class. I think it was after I told him that learning European history in school ended with "The good war".

Re: They sent my sister packing at that age, too

[immemor.livejournal.com]

Yeah, missed all that. Good thing, too. I would have received (and yet another) detention for laughing when I heard diet of worms.

1968 and 1969 were fascinating years. Never boring those years.

Diet of Worms

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

Our teacher said we would laugh.