Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for May 14, 2014

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    wrwallaceii  over 10 years ago

    I remember that… In gym class at school, the teacher always had another student climb it. I never saw a gym teacher do more with the rope than hold it still while we all tried it.

    At the YMCA though, the phys ed instructor always climbed the rope… I always thought that was odd.

    Also there were no knots in it… Straight rope… it was tough.

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    Bilan  over 10 years ago

    Where’s the golden parachute landing for rich CEOs?That’s right, there aren’t any.

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    Dtroutma  over 10 years ago

    ^Many may be holding down the end of that rope,with their necks?

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    Zero-Gabriel  over 10 years ago

    Is that guy standing there Charlie Brown…?!

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    artybee  over 10 years ago

    My gym teacher was a Marine. He never told us to do anything he hadn’t done… dammit.

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    tripwire45  over 10 years ago

    I hope it’s a looooooooooong climb.

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    jreckard  over 10 years ago

    Jacob may have seen a corporate ladder, but Judas used a rope.

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    vwdualnomand  over 10 years ago

    always wondered why climbing rope will win the cold war and be useful later in life.

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    She Mc  over 10 years ago

    I guess not many made it!!!

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    James Hopkins  over 10 years ago

    I could never climb that rope. So frustrating!

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    ladykat  over 10 years ago

    I want to go where my cats and dogs went!

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    felinefan55 Premium Member over 10 years ago

    I went to many schools due to being an army brat. My father retired in the summer after my 6th grade, so 7th was even more uneven. I went to 3 schools in 3 different cities (2 states). In all I went to 11 schools in 2 countries, 5 states. None of those had the rope thing.

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    felinefan55 Premium Member over 10 years ago

    My kids on the other hand have had a completely different experience. Once you get stationed at Bragg you never leave, so they both went kindergarten through COLLEGE! here.

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    jprozeboom  over 10 years ago

    I think your gym teacher was a in the closet pedophile and found a job he loved.

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    yimhere  over 10 years ago

    …ahhh… and then there were the rope burns…

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    roctor  over 10 years ago

    Heaven is for the 1%ers. Cruising under yacht knots.

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    dabugger  over 10 years ago

    Damn sliding/pop up ads are harassment….would never even read them or buy their crap….

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    Vet Premium Member over 10 years ago

    The challenge for this one is one handed while hold a 30 pound kettlebell weight over your head in your other hand..

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    Digital Frog  over 10 years ago

    Knots so fast…

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    thirdguy  over 10 years ago

    I’d hate to see the entrance for butchers!

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    Caddy57  over 10 years ago

    I wonder if the gym teachers climb that rope a little faster when they realize that it’s nothing more than a knotted fuse, and the Devil is holding it steady from the other end…….miss one knot and you are toast for eternity!

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    Reppr Premium Member over 10 years ago

    I couldn’t climb that straight rope either – until the gym teacher did his drill instructor routine on me…and then I went right up the thing! (He sure did know how to cuss)

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    Varnes  over 10 years ago

    Kvelduff, please explain how that statement applies to grade school….Doesn’t make any sense to me… If you can’t do math, you teach math? If you can’t do long division, you get a job teaching long division? Is it also that way in reading? Now in the arts, that may be the way it is sometimes, but than you can’t make money at art for many years…..Kurt Vonnegut sold cars to pay the rent….

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    pbarnrob  over 10 years ago

    In bootcamp (San Diego) we had the knotted rope, and it was hard! Much later, I learned the trick with the straight rope; it’s rhythm, swinging back and forth, without legs.

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    live.the.future  over 10 years ago

    When I was in elementary school the rope wasn’t knotted. You pulled your full weight up.

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    wiatr  over 10 years ago

    YESSSSS!!!!

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    Ernest Lemmingway  over 10 years ago

    Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach gym class.

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    Hunter7  over 10 years ago

    so gym teachers? No guts, No glory? .I had no love for my high school gym teachers. Clipboard holding, stop watch carrying, whistle screaming…… .Much better now – No high school gym teachers. Just tai chi and sword classes.

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    Meh~tdology, fka Pepelaputr   over 10 years ago

    The only push-ups my High School gym coaches ever did came from an ice cream truck.

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    Scorchwave  over 10 years ago

    I never saw them going up to the top of the rope. Or on the rope. I don’t think my gym teacher ever even touched a treadmill.

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