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Tuesday, September 19, 2006
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Where do the mermaids stand?
The essence of this spirit was captured in a moving speech about tolerance given last year by the student body president of one of your sister colleges. She related the story by Robert Fulghum about a young pastor who, finding himself in charge of some very energetic children, hits upon a game called "Giants, Wizards and Dwarfs." "You have to decide now," the pastor instructed the children, "which you are ... a giant, a wizard or a dwarf?"
At that, a small girl tugging at his pants leg, asked, "But where do the mermaids stand?"
The pastor told her there are no mermaids, and she says, "Oh yes there are," she said. "I am a mermaid."
Now this little girl knew what she was and she was not about to give up on either her identity or the game. She intended to take her place wherever mermaids fit into the scheme of things. Where do the mermaids stand ... All those who are different, those who do not fit the boxes and pigeonholes? "Answer that question," wrote Fulghum, "and you can build a school, a nation, or a whole world."
~~Barbara Bush
Wellesley College Commencement Address, 1990
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Thought you might find this funny on Talk Like A Pirate Day.
http://tinyurl.com/oc595 (scroll up when you go to this link)
A party called the Pirate Party (anti-copyright, pro-"pirating" software) lost an election in Sweden.
Oh yeah, I should be talking like a pirate. Oops! Um.....arrrrrrrrr! I be lame at this.
Here be an even better Talk Like A Pirate Day link:
http://tinyurl.com/mawz5
Filled with scurvy puns it be.
(Note how I've switched to pirate talk after the day is over. I like to stand out.)
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