Are you a No-Nec?
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e_clareI've definitely fallen into a rut. Good news is, I packed three boxes of books today. Bad news: those were the first three boxes I've packed. Now I'm getting into the hard stuff, like figuring out what to keep and what to pitch, and why I kept all of these old high school papers anyway.
My family -- the historian and the librarian -- have a habit of keeping things long past their prime. Going through a box the other day, Mom pulled out taxes and receipts from 1987, '88, and '89; information about housing at Indiana University ('87); a Newsweek from the week I was born (with Michael Jackson on the cover - yay?); a pre-wedding article on Princess Diana and Prince Charles, written in the style of Masterpiece Theater; and a 1974 ad for a car/grocery bonus offer.
She was looking for her undergrad paper on medieval illuminated manuscripts, which I'm not sure she ever found.
This evening, I found notes from NHS and literary magazine meetings my senior year, notes on a smattering of AP calculus classes, French vocabularly lists (3 pages), and a draft of my graduation party poster. I wasn't looking for anything in particular, fortunately, because I don't think I'd have found it. Yesterday, when searching for glue, I discovered two letters from an Egyptian penpal I had (briefly, looks like) when I was 15. I didn't find the glue.
This is why it's good that we're moving. Now we can get rid of things that we truly don't need -- "historical value" or not -- and it'll be a very happy thing.
Of course, sometimes you find things you've saved for a reason, even if it's purely entertainment. My mother has a copy of a handout from her college friend's Catholic high school, simply because it's one of the funniest things EVER. I remember hearing about it as a kid, but didn't see the actual paper until last week. Here, for your reading pleasure, I present the following excerpts from the "No-Nec Club" rules. (With apologies to any Catholics or anti-sex-education folk who may be offended by the mocking that follows.)
NO-NEC CLUB
TRUST IN FRIENDSHIP *** PURITY IN COURTSHIP *** HAPPINESS IN MARRIAGE
<snip> (saving "I'm a No-Nec Girl/Boy" for later)
NO -- NEC CLUB RULES
LOVE THE MOTHER OF GOD, PRAY HER ROSARY, AND YOU WILL BE PURE!
If he reaches for your waist---give him a belt.
If he wants to examine you---send him to the hospital.
If he calls you chicken---duck him.
THERE IS SUCH A THING AS "WILL POWER", AND "WON'T POWER"
<. . .>
RAILROAD CROSSING OF PURITY
Don't pass over the railroad tracks until it is safe and clear, until Marriage!
Accidents and sin can be fatal, for the "wise and wreckless one".
<. . .>
* QUESTION FOR THE WEAK: "WHY DO YOU KISS?" Answer......THAT'S WHY IT IS WRONG! *
Kissing can be a menace to life and limb. One must brave wagon-spoked steering wheels, ill-placed door handles, overlapping dashboards, protruding gearshifts, over hanging mirrors and Vesuvian car heaters. One gets drooled upon and sometimes finds oneself entangled in a lip fight with a Ubangy.
Teenagers do these things in the dark--to keep parents and supposedly GOD in the dark. Necking can be gravely sinful if one's intention is to arouse sexual pleasure, or if one or both parties are excited or stimulated. And, even though the acts catalogued as necking sometimes be not seriously sinful in themselves, they can become seriously sinful if continued for a length of time. NECKING IS SINFUL. Regardless of what you may think or say, NECKING IS STILL SINFUL. Make your "ADVANCES" toward God, not toward sin!
<. . .>
* * * YOU CAN LAND IN HELL . . . . . . . . . . . ON YOUR KISSER * * *
Compliments of Father Lavelle, St. Marys, Lancaster, Ohio
My family -- the historian and the librarian -- have a habit of keeping things long past their prime. Going through a box the other day, Mom pulled out taxes and receipts from 1987, '88, and '89; information about housing at Indiana University ('87); a Newsweek from the week I was born (with Michael Jackson on the cover - yay?); a pre-wedding article on Princess Diana and Prince Charles, written in the style of Masterpiece Theater; and a 1974 ad for a car/grocery bonus offer.
She was looking for her undergrad paper on medieval illuminated manuscripts, which I'm not sure she ever found.
This evening, I found notes from NHS and literary magazine meetings my senior year, notes on a smattering of AP calculus classes, French vocabularly lists (3 pages), and a draft of my graduation party poster. I wasn't looking for anything in particular, fortunately, because I don't think I'd have found it. Yesterday, when searching for glue, I discovered two letters from an Egyptian penpal I had (briefly, looks like) when I was 15. I didn't find the glue.
This is why it's good that we're moving. Now we can get rid of things that we truly don't need -- "historical value" or not -- and it'll be a very happy thing.
Of course, sometimes you find things you've saved for a reason, even if it's purely entertainment. My mother has a copy of a handout from her college friend's Catholic high school, simply because it's one of the funniest things EVER. I remember hearing about it as a kid, but didn't see the actual paper until last week. Here, for your reading pleasure, I present the following excerpts from the "No-Nec Club" rules. (With apologies to any Catholics or anti-sex-education folk who may be offended by the mocking that follows.)
TRUST IN FRIENDSHIP *** PURITY IN COURTSHIP *** HAPPINESS IN MARRIAGE
<snip> (saving "I'm a No-Nec Girl/Boy" for later)
NO -- NEC CLUB RULES
- At the outset of every date we will exchange the password---"NO-NEC." I will not date anyone who will not go along with the club rules.
- If we agree before hand there will be no attempts, it will dispel doubt, fear and worry, and our dates will be enjoyable.
- Persons, places and things that might spoil our fun and dates are taboo.
- Three Hail Marys in the morning and at night, each day --- one Holy Communion each month for the intention of purity in courtship will insure it.
If he reaches for your waist---give him a belt.
If he wants to examine you---send him to the hospital.
If he calls you chicken---duck him.
Say "NO" -- just "NO", because by the time you say I'm not that kind of a girl you may be one. The most difficult word to pronounce is the monosyllable "NO". Say "NO" to him and sin, and "YES" to God and virtue.
<. . .>
RAILROAD CROSSING OF PURITY
- STOP! (before it becomes sinful, or before it is too late)
- LOOK! (realize what you are doing, know what can happen, and does: S I N)
- LISTEN! (to the whispers of God's grace, hear the voice of your conscience, hear HIM!)
Don't pass over the railroad tracks until it is safe and clear, until Marriage!
Accidents and sin can be fatal, for the "wise and wreckless one".
* QUESTION FOR THE WEAK: "WHY DO YOU KISS?" Answer......THAT'S WHY IT IS WRONG! *
Kissing can be a menace to life and limb. One must brave wagon-spoked steering wheels, ill-placed door handles, overlapping dashboards, protruding gearshifts, over hanging mirrors and Vesuvian car heaters. One gets drooled upon and sometimes finds oneself entangled in a lip fight with a Ubangy.
Teenagers do these things in the dark--to keep parents and supposedly GOD in the dark. Necking can be gravely sinful if one's intention is to arouse sexual pleasure, or if one or both parties are excited or stimulated. And, even though the acts catalogued as necking sometimes be not seriously sinful in themselves, they can become seriously sinful if continued for a length of time. NECKING IS SINFUL. Regardless of what you may think or say, NECKING IS STILL SINFUL. Make your "ADVANCES" toward God, not toward sin!
* * * YOU CAN LAND IN HELL . . . . . . . . . . . ON YOUR KISSER * * *
Compliments of Father Lavelle, St. Marys, Lancaster, Ohio
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Date: 2006-01-13 05:49 am (UTC)i really like this paragraph in particular. :)
also, michael jackson on the cover of newsweek from the week you were born. weird.
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Date: 2006-01-13 06:00 am (UTC)Re: Michael Jackson, 1984 was the year of Thriller, etc. He was merely eccentric then, not full-blown crazy.
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Date: 2006-01-13 06:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-13 02:47 pm (UTC)