Thursday, April 12, 2012

Lame and Lurpy.

A long long long time ago a superintendent of a school district came to guest-speak for an Education Class I had to take.
Here is one of the things he said.
"If I don't think your penmanship on the chalk board is up to snuff, then I'm going to have you come to the district office and practice until it measures up. We have high standards."
He talked about penmanship for a long time.
And then another time I was in a big meeting to try to help a kid and the school's psychologist drew a picture of a brain on the conference room board and circled a spot.
He wrote the word "amygdala" above the brain, and then launched into a description of what the amygdala does and why it is important and how it evolved.
His penmanship was beautiful.
These are examples of lame and lurpy thinking and behavior.
Lame and lurpy.
May we protect our kids from all that is lame and lurpy.
And may we avoid the lame and lurpy ourselves when we can.

12 comments:

  1. The Urban Dictionary usually comes to the rescue of the terminally out-of-it, but not this time. 'Lurpy' comes in as either or both of 'lean and gangly' and 'sleazy and creepy'. The up-down voting seems to slightly favor gangly over creepy.

    Neither seems to fit the cluelessly anal psychologist. What am I missing here?

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  2. The Urban Dictionary usually comes to the rescue of the terminally out-of-it, but not this time. 'Lurpy' comes in as either or both of 'lean and gangly' and 'sleazy and creepy'. The up-down voting seems to slightly favor gangly over creepy.

    Neither seems to fit the cluelessly anal psychologist. What am I missing here?

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    1. Uncle. I should have explained.
      "Lurpy" is an adopted acronym from a word students used a while ago: Lonely Unloved Rejected Person.
      This is mean.
      I use it as an adjective, because I like how it sounds. Lurpy acts by people are unfortunate and rarely have good outcomes.

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  3. A long time ago penmanship was important I guess

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    1. Hi Jackie--love all the purple on your site! Thanks for stopping by!

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  4. This is the first time I've ever heard the word 'lurpy'.

    I still have a fondness for penmanship, even though my own writing goes from pretty to "WOAH, what does that even SAY?" in very short amounts of time. hehe

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  5. They certainly sound like things to avoid!


    The Golden Eagle
    The Eagle's Aerial Perspective

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  6. What you need is a 'Lirpa' Remember Spock and Kirk's duel in Amok Time?

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    1. That is one of my favorite episodes, and yes, a Lirpa is exactly what I need!

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  7. I love the sound of the word lurpy and that my auto-fill tries to make it into the word lumpy. I also like lirpa and any connection to Spock and Kirk.

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