betting pool...

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is now open on how long it takes the Professor to get our newest arival into a teaching position.

Odds varrying according to position, with International Studies and International Buisness getting fairly standard numbers. 200 to 1 for anyone who wants to give me their money put a bet on for Gender Studies.

(Al and assorted grad students, I'm kidding. Mostly)

Comments

*giggles*

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Put me down for five dollars for International Studies, with another five for myself, Piotr, Kurt and Rahne ending up having to talk in class about where we live when we aren't here.

We should have this bet include all the new people though, shouldn't we? I mean, I wouldn't want Mister Marko teaching anything, because he's completly scary, but I bet he'll end up with a shop class before summer arrives.

Re: *giggles*

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Mr. Marko isn't that bad, he reminds me of some of my cousins' friends in the Marines. Really gruff and particular but basically good people. And you can tell he likes taking care of this place, which is actually pretty cool.

Re: *giggles*

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He is a hundred times bigger than anyone I've ever seen, which makes him scary on a scale that is only equalled by Mr. Logan, who has knives in his hands.

Re: *giggles*

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Big doesn't always mean scary. Piotr is very big, espeically when he's in his metal form, but he's not frightening.

Ah.

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Ah, but I have seen Piotr wearing a silly hat, and no one is scary once you have worn a silly hat.

Re: Ah.

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Maybe we should get Mr. Marko a silly hat, then.

Ooh! I know! We need to steal that bucket of Magneto's. He could tie it to the top of his head with string. Yellow string. That'd look silly. 'Course, we'd all get killed trying, so maybe we should just buy him a sombrero.

No.

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Magneto has a bucket on his head?

There goes my "People in silly hats are not scary" theory. Magneto scares me senseless.

Maybe we can get Mister Marko a fez.

Re: No.

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Weelll . . . bucketish. It's on the Internet, some guy had a camcorder on him when Magneto attacked the train station--oh, right, you were still in France. It was right before the whole thing at the Statue of Liberty, he walked out of the station with his goons into about a hundred cops, and floated all their guns at them, and flew off in a helicopter, and he had this sort of buckety looking helmet on.

You'd barely be able to see the fez on top of Mr. Marko's head, though. This is why I'm saying sombrero. Besides, a sombrero in his size would get people all freaked about UFO sightings. :)

Re: No.

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And this is when we get very glad that the adults can't see this community...

Re: No.

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Well, it is on the Internet, I can link you. Some of the tape's a little fuzzy from probably magnetic interference, but there are good shots of the bucket.

Probably a good thing Mr. Marko can't see about the sombrero, though, yeah, I dunno if he's figured out yet that I tease people I like.

I wonder

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I wonder how many mutants end up on the internet on one of those websites that say that ghosts and sea monsters are real?

Re: I wonder

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That's a good question, actually. Wonder if we could figure it out somehow?

Maybe

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One of those pointed hats you see in old pictures from China or Japan. I can't remember if it is China or Japan, though.

Re: Maybe

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The ones that look like straw cymbals? I think that's China.

Re: Maybe

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Oh, coolie hats? Yeah, China, although I think they had them in Good Morning, Vietnam, so they're probably not just Chinese.

Re: *giggles*

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Ooh, an excellent bet. I'll give you 1:2 odds on the talking in class (with any subset of that group. Wouldn't be fair if one of them didn't end up taking the class.)

I figured since Mr. Marko was here as grounds keeper he wouldn't end up teaching. I mean, it's not like we've got Care of Magical Creatures...

but...

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Everyone else who is here has ended up teaching. Doctor MacTaggart did, and she was just as surprised as anyone else when she found out.

Re: but...

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True enough. Ok. Book is open on Mr. Marko teaching. Make your bets...