LOL! Just the mental image was enough to make me choke on my Earl Grey.
Thanks.
(kick, kick)

On Aug 5, 2004, at 9:41 AM, barry brake wrote:

> from an article critiquing a sociologist's book on high schools:
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>> Not that I mean to be rude, but does any other discipline
>> depend so much on vaunting its own
>> methodology—especially when it's being used to confirm
>> the obvious? As he shares the results of his painstaking
>> investigations (adolescents seem to care a lot about
>> clothes), Milner doesn't want anyone to be confused by his
>> subject's arcana. Cheerleading, he explains, "usually
>> involve[s] a mixture of verbal phrases and routinized
>> physical movement," and you wonder: Usually? What in
>> hell do the exceptions do—kick a possum to death in stony
>> silence? (And by the way, does their team win?)
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