Genesis of this webpage name...

Well, I suppose that I should explain the genesis to my webpage name. It was a very popular word around the neighborhood when I was in Hell -er- junior high. I wasn't at all popular since we were in France at the time. Most of my oh-so-wonderful classmates lived in the US getto and avoided going ouot into the "dangerous" French countryside. On the other hand, our family lived in a rowhouse with French neighbors. We were outsiders since we weren't living in the "US guetto" and didn't get to play with the little monsters there. (OK, so I didn't know how to get along well with people and woujld have a much easier time of it now. Also, I was afraid of pain and it took me a long time to realize that the pain of a punch-in-the-nose was always much less than the long term pain of enduring bullying. I finally learned to start punching and the bullies went for softer targets. Damn shame it took me so long to "embrace the pain" and learn to fight.

Anyway, the child's doggeral of "sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me" is pure crappola! Words can rip your head off and deficate down your throat! Words can really hurt!

So, I say to thowe being harrassed: Fight back!

Tell your parents, tell your teachers, tell anyone who might be able to do something to heop you. The worst thing you can do is remain silent and to tell no one!

You remember that movie, "Flatliners", in which the bully's victims get back hard core? If that were true, then a little turd named Steve Grand and another piece of fecal matter named "Ralph" and a girl whose name I don't recall are getting theirs. Of course, if that story were a reflection of reality, I'd be in deep shiit myself!

Not such a good idea when looked at from that viewpoint!