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Re: the irate parent story
Posted By: Howard, on host 209.86.36.22
Date: Thursday, August 30, 2001, at 07:56:44
In Reply To: Re: the irate parent story posted by Grishny on Thursday, August 30, 2001, at 07:19:46:

> > Mr. Headlee? Mr. Duff? Those are the
> oddest names I've ever heard of! And on two
> superintendents?! They must have been
> seriously picked on my the kids in the school.
> Most kids will take relatively little and make it
> funny, but that's almost too easy...
>
> Headlee maybe, but Duff isn't all that odd.
> You've never heard of the restaurant chain
> called Duff's? (They used to have really good
> food, but it's gone downhill, but that's beside
> the point.) Also, the previous pastor of my
> church was named Duff.
>
> I guess it's a little funny if you think of the
> phrase "sitting around on his duff." I wonder
> where the name and that phrase originate?
>
> Gri"now, 'Snodgrass' always strikes me as
> funny"shny

Neither of those names in uncommon in this neck of the woods. Both of these guys are excellent school administrtators, and remember you heard that from someone who usually has nothing good to say about school adminstration. Duff, who is a personal friend of mine, told me that when he was in the Army, his sarge used to enjoy saying "Get off your duff, Duff." I wonder how a moron got all those stripes.
Howard