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teachers can punch students and get away with it

some how talking on the phone still changes your voice, even if there isnt a voice changer, but still sounds the same.







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One thing I learned:

It is more practical and less expensive to purchase short-wave radio gear and power it in order to keep in touch with your friends in New York when living in Arizona. Don't just pick up the telephone and take advantage of the "10 Cents a minute" campaign of the early nineties. And IF they even hear you at that distance they can just shout their responses at their stereo.

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That high schools are commonly named after pedo fictional characters

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It's cool to eat your cereal with a fork and do your homework in the dark

Harry can smell a lie like a fart in a car

"This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence"

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your portable phone can still work 1000 yards away

everyone will blame a radio DJ, then ask why did the kid do it, or even bother listen to the kid to see if anything is wrong



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Uhhh...You're mistaking Humbert Humbert from Lolita for Hubert H. Humphrey (who was an American Vice President in the 60s), and for whom the school is named, that is Humphrey, not Humbert...

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To avoid suspicion when picking up the mail from your drop box, put on dark sunglasses immediately before the store.

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Someone was really inspired by Pat Benetar's Hell is for Children

Broken Arrow is a much better movie, because it isn't Pump Up the Volume

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Howie Long was going to be the next Jim Brown.

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Did you graduate from Hubert H. Humphrey High?
Or, are you still attending
Hannibal H. Hammlin Jr. High?
I'm guessing the later.


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"You're just scrappin'!"

You have a happy and a healthy!

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later,

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- You Can Be A Leader Through Short wave Radio

- Things Can't Be Worst .. It Only Can Be Better [ As Hary Said ]

- So Be It

- Talk Hard

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Well that is when things were starting to change on how instructors could not spank or discipline students in school.

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radio shack helps with everthing!



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Yes it does seem that way does it not?

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The desert city of Paradise Hills, Arizona has lots of lush greenery and looks remarkably like southern California.

When trying to research counterculture figures to hone your radio act, check out the Lenny Bruce book from the school library to enhance the chances of getting outed.

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Putting just the teeniest bit of metal into a 1980's microwave will cause it to explode like a bomb.

Seth Green knows how to hijack his school's P.A. system.

Having the last name of Watts pretty much guarantees that you'll get a job with the F.C.C.

Christian Slater is really bad at soldering.

Crestwood is a maggot pusswad.

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Kids who don't have it that bad AT ALL for some reason hate their parents enough to hold a contest on how best to murder them.

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- a neighbor can unwittingly be paying for a phone they've never used or authorized the installation of- in their shed.

- kids in AZ had so little to do in the 90's, listening to a wanna be Howard Stern pretending to yank his crank was fascinating

- Chuck U. Farley is not a convincing name

- parents who know their son has a ton of shortwave radio equipment and an extremely bad attitude will never suspect that he might be the pirate radio DJ everyone is talking about.

- those same parents will be delighted to find a girl in their son's room

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There was a lot of evidence that would point to Mark as the culprit, most of which seemed to go unnoticed.

You already pointed out the radio equipment that he owned, which should have made his parents at least a little suspicious, but there should have been other clues, too.

By the time the police found the phone in the shed, this should have really been the last thing, but other evidence:

- He was a transfer student. That should have singled out a lot of the student body.

- He was likely the son of a school employee.

- When they got to the point of the phone in the shed, they should have really nailed it: which student is a transfer student who is the son of an employee and lives within a thousand yards from where we're standing?

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it happened in the eighties. and everyone in az at that time was from somewhere else mostly back east. except maybe 25 % of population.

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the high school was HHH but had no wrestler
Holly Sampson was better looking as teen actress then as an adult washed up pornstar
the school had a "lets all wear the same clothes twice a few days apart celebration"
cheryl pollak who ???
short wave AM and VHF FM is the same thing
a cellular antenna on a jeep is what you need to transmit FM radio signal

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