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Paul

Que.... 

IT Angle

a list of Chuck Norris Jokes....

Geoff Spick

Ahh... 

Pirate

...Chuck Norris, the only man who can speak Braille. Mark the pupil down as a future Darwin Award winner

Skull n bones - don't mess with Chuck

Thomas Swann

"Terroristic" ? 

Stop

Oh.

My.

God.

Anonymous Coward

No sense of humor? 

Unhappy

While I applaud the efforts to try to eliminate violence in schools (and everywhere else), it seems to me that since Chuck Norris was on the list, that this was a total fantasy list, not something that's likely to have ever been acted on. "Zero Tolerance" smacks of Gestapo tactics. Is zero tolerance truly appropriate for young people who are likely to make mistakes in life? I'd think getting expelled from school for making a list would be more likely to make a person really bitter, and maybe even "push them over the edge" You're basically throwing a young person's life away over a slight possibility that they might go berserk. I remember making a similar list when I was in school, but I don't own a gun, have never stabbed, shot, or otherwise physically harmed anyone, nor do I plan on it. (although I do have some mild road-rage at times) Times were different back then---I suppose if someone had wanted, they could have brought their knife collection to show-and-tell. Every boy (including myself) had a pocket knife in grade school, but the thought never occurred to any of us to use them to harm another person. An occasional fistfight, more of a dominance thing than trying to really cause damage, was the only real violence back then. Maybe confidential counseling would be appropriate to determine if the person is really a threat...

At least our off-colour thoughts are still safe... for now...

Sarah Bee

Re: Ahh... 

(Written by Reg staff)

Peter Griffin can speak Braille. 'Bump, bump, no bump, three raised bumps and a square.'

Mootykins69

Re: Terroristic 

Alert

It's as clumsy a neologism as you'd expect from the Yanks.

Personally I prefer the slightly more emphatic "terrortastic"!

Anonymous Coward

@Paul 

Que? Did you mean queue?

Ron Beck

Calling Chuck 

Obviously this kid needs to learn some discipline. Somebody call Chuck's agent and see if he has time to teach the kid a little karate.

Christoph

Making threats? 

The teacher "found" this list? Presumably by searching his property or similar?

Exactly how is that "making a threat" if he never meant anyone else to see it?

DM

Chuck Norris... 

Coat

...isn't scared of Bill Ray.

Kane

Re: Ahh... 

Go

Chuck Norris shot the sheriff, but he round house kicked the deputy.

Sarah Bee

Re: @Paul 

(Written by Reg staff)

I think you both meant 'cue' in the sense of 'to line up' in the sense of 'lots of Chuck Norris jokes are imminent'.

MINE IS THE ONE WITH THE DICTIONARY.

Sarah Bee

Re: Chuck Norris... 

(Written by Reg staff)

Heh!

Cavan

Defense of impossibility? 

Coat

In the US he could have a defense to attempt or conspiracy to commit, of impossibility lets face it; it's not possible to kill Chuck Norris, so this kid is only guilty of stupidity....

He should be put in charge of education in Kansas .. .he'd get rid of Creationism, and instill norrisism

There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of creatures Chuck Norris has allowed to live.

Mines the pyjamas...

Ben Parkinson

terroristic? Only in America! 

Coat

gah! what a crap attempt at a new word!!!

terroristic... Was that is Team America or something?

How about... SuperterroristicAl-Qaedadocious ?

Jon

Homer's List? 

Joke

Thats it Pennsauken High is making the list.....

Revenge list:

- Bill of Rights

- Grandpa

- fat free lard

- gravity

- Emmys

- Darwin

- H2WHOA!

- Billy Crystal

- God

- Soloflex

- the boy

- Stern Lecture Plumbing

- Econo Save

- Pennsauken High

Ash

@AC: No sense of humor? 

Thumb Down

"off-colour"? Sounds racist to me. ZERO TOLERANCE! Expelled.

If kids learn by example, no wonder they're a bunch of little shits.

Nick Palmer

He was arrested for... 

Stop

..."making terroristic threats"? Frankly, I'd be more inclined to award the kid a prize for being able to write a comprehensible and coherent list in the first place, given that the background illiteracy count for the area seems to have gone through the roof.

Daniel B.

Stoopid 

Thumb Down

"Terrorist Acts"? For having an obviously fantasy hitlist?

I'd see more of a "terrorist" in a bully than in a kid with an imaginary hitlist. I wonder what would've happened if someone had seen my "People I'd kill if it was legal to do so" list back in secondary school...

Anonymous Coward

Queue / Cue 

I think it was "Queue" as in to form an orderly line, rather than "cue" as in snooker...

Anonymous Coward

L7 

IT Angle

When I get mad

And I get pissed

I grab my pen

And I write out a list

Of all the people

That won't be missed

You've made my shitlist

Anonymous Coward

@Sarah Bee re Cue/Queue/Que 

Joke

Damn! Beat me to it. I was going to show them the difference between a queue and a cue - one round the back of the head, and t'other in A&E.

Bloody grammar infidels.

Anyway, congrations, your a winner!

Louis Cowan

Terrortard 

Black Helicopters

Seems like the only people we have to fear are those who are supposedly protecting us from those who we're supposed to fear!

Matt Thornton

hmm.. 

Flame

Presumably, if you made one of those "joe bloggs loves joanne bloggs" thingies where you count up the number of times each of l, o, v, e and s occurs in the names to find out the percentage value of how much the love is true (or something)*, then then you're guilty of intent to commit statutory rape?

* Was that just me? Mine's the smingey brown raincoat...

Daniel Ratcliffe

Terroristic 

What's wrong with terroristic? American neologism? -ic is the normal way to form adjectives from words ending in -ist. Therefore terroristic means of or like terrorists.

frymaster

Queue / cue 

It's cue, as in "the signal to perform an action"

Sarah Bee had the right spelling, just not the right definition

Mike Crawshaw

Queue / Cue 

Happy

I thought it was "que", as spelled, missing the question mark.

As in the French "que" = "what"

So "Que?" = "What?"

but that's probably because I have a habit of speaking French / German at people who want me to do things in order to confuse them enough to forget some of the things they want me to do.

Brutus

Re: Queue / Cue 

Boffin

Actually, I think it's supposed to be cue as 'the actress missed her cue'

Sarah Bee

Re: Queue / Cue 

(Written by Reg staff)

I'm not completely convinced it isn't 'Kew' as in 'Kew Gardens'.

Frumious Bandersnatch

"zero tolerance" 

Stop

I hate this newspeak... why don't they just say "intolerant"?

Anonymous Coward

@ Chuck Norris isn't scared of Bill Ray 

Coat

Where's my t-shirt, dammit?

Dave Edmondston

Re: Queue / Cue 

Coat

Is it not 'k-you', as in 'Fu'?

Simon Painter

Oh dear god... the land of the free... 

Alert

Here's how it works... this kid is bullied on a regular basis and is probably having a hell of a time at high school and has idle fantasies about beating up people who have caused him hassle. He probably added Chuck because he's like Superman and anyone who beats up on Chuck would get some "respect".

What the school board should have done is offer this kid some help with managing his anger (to be honest writing a list and keeping it in your locker is a pretty healthy way to deal with this sort of anger and a lot better than turning up to school with an AK just because everyone teases you for being an emo as has happened in a number of US institutions). Instead they have branded this guy a psycho which will mean the victimisation will only get worse for the poor kid until he either kills himself or kills a few other people and then himself.

The land of the free, the same place that brought you the Salem Witch Trials.

Anonymous Coward

@ Queue / Cue 

Coat

¿Qué?

Si si!

Ed Sexton

Re: Queue / Cue 

Go

Surely it's just the single letter 'Q', like in James Bond.

Anony mouse

Que? 

Coat

as in :-

Basil Fawlty: Ah, Manuel? There is too much butter on those trays.

Manuel: Que? <------------------------------

Basil Fawlty: [speaking slowly] There is too much butter on those trays.

Manuel: Ah, no senor. No "on those trays"...

[counting the trays]

Manuel: "uno, dos, tres".

ben

my list 

1. Become the next US President

2. Open as lead act at the first rock fesival on the moon

3. Kill Chuck Norris in a roundhouse contest

3 is just a dream.

David Corbett

Re: Re: Terroristic 

Coat

"Personally I prefer the slightly more emphatic "terrortastic"!"

How about "Terrorific"?

Name

@Frumious 

Because 'zero tolerance' and 'intolerance' mean different things? Wouldn't be particularly helpful to use a word to mean something other than what that word means, would it?

Anonymous Coward

heh 

I like "terrortastic"

reminds me of the line from that film I saw once.

"Ladies can't get enough of my funktactic love"

"Infidels can't get enough of my terrortastic thrusts"

Terroristic terrortards terrorise through terror.

Thing is, I don't feel very terrorified.

Gaz

It's Cue!! 

Alert

How much discussion over one word?! It's Cue. As in a prompt.

Chuck Norris CAN divide by zero :)

Anonymous Coward

There is no queue 

Coat

Just a line of people Chuck Norris hasn't killed yet ...

Andy

Kew Gardens! 

Happy

Now there's a Terrorgasmicalistic breeding ground if I've never seen one!

Damn those plants with plots and those latin-esque names! Burn them

at the stake!

Matt

Re: Queue / Cue 

Coat

could just be the end of an insult, as in '***k you'

mines the leotard on the peg.

Anonymous Coward

If you can see Chuck Norris 

Chuck norris can see you....

If you can't see chuck norris

you may be moments from death!

Anonymous Coward

@Sarah Bee 

Happy

I don't suppose you are related to the Sarah Bee that contributes to Scarlet? If so, I'd just like to say "Thanks"!

Anonymous because If she isn't, then I've just...<turns red and hides. Forever>

Sarah Bee

Re: @Sarah Bee 

(Written by Reg staff)

Heh. I have associations with that publication, yes.

John

Chuck Norris Facts 

I'm suprised no one posted this....

http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com

Enjoy...

Hans

@ By Andy 

quote: "Burn them at the stake!"

are you sure it's not burn them at the steak? as in barbe CUE/Que/queue/kew/q . . . fu

Aint

Better safe than sorry, people 

Alert

Zero tolerance means better safe than sorry. It's time to close all of these publicly funded terrorist training camps we call "schools". Talk about playing with fire! Allowing children to interact?! How crazy is that!?!? They could murder each other with firearms!!!!

Chuck Norris tears cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried.

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