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Re: How many of yall are former FFA members?
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Posted by Jonfarmer on February 21, 2006 at 19:44:38 from (64.91.163.168):
In Reply to: Re: How many of yall are former FFA members? posted by barnrat on February 21, 2006 at 19:27:06:
Makes me think of what someone said to me when I took an adult computer course a year ago which was mostly high school students from the city. I was talking about how in high school, we build a small sand box in foresty class and had a 5 gallon pail with a piece of hard plastic drainage pipe about 5ft high x 4" in diameter, with sand filled in around it. It was a game to test your skills with a backhoe, the backhoe was backed up to the sand box and a soup spoon was duct taped to one of the bucket teeth and a fresh (not boiled) egg was placed in that sand box. The objective was to pick up that egg with that spoon and lift it up to the top of the pipe and drop it down the pipe and this was timed with a stopwatch. The response was "they actually let you drive a backhoe?, where'd you go? redneck school?", I said "yup".
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