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Lipstick In School
#7648782 - 11/17/07 07:54 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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According to a news report, a certain school in Garden City, MI was recently faced with a unique problem. A number of 12-year-old girls were beginning to use lipstick and would put it on in the washroom.That was fine, but after they put on their lipstick they would press their lips to the mirror leaving dozens of little lip prints.
Every night, the maintenance man would remove them and the next day the girls would put them back. Finally the principal decided that something had to be done. He called all the girls to the washroom and met them there with the maintenance man. He explained that all these lip prints were causing a major problem for the custodian who had to clean the mirrors every night. To demonstrate how difficult it had been to clean the mirrors, he asked the maintenance man to show the girls how much effort was required.
He took out a long-handled squeegee, dipped it in the toilet, and cleaned the mirror with it. Since then, there have been no lip prints on the mirror.
THE MORAL OF THIS STORY..
There are teachers, and then there are Educators.
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Re: Lipstick In School [Re: Diploid]
#7648795 - 11/17/07 07:59 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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<and that never happened.> the end.
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Re: Lipstick In School [Re: Redstorm]
#7649203 - 11/17/07 09:47 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Redstorm said:
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VisionsToReality said: <and that never happened.> the end.
And you know this how?
the story is stupid how could it be true
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Many more stupid things happen everyday than this.
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Re: Lipstick In School [Re: Redstorm]
#7649219 - 11/17/07 09:53 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Redstorm said: Many more stupid things happen everyday than this.
Do you mean 'Many things more stupid than this happen everyday.'?
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Re: Lipstick In School [Re: Diploid]
#7649240 - 11/17/07 10:00 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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find me the police record and ill believe it. till then it's ridiculous to me!
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Uh, what?
Why would there be a police record over a school discipline issue?? The girls didn't even get detention!
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makes a good point tho education is somthign that is done to you... it is standordised tests and report cards learning is living. you are learning right now. teachers are just there to point you in the right direction. you learn. when "they" try to act upon you it becoes education and then inturn becomes torture. thats why i barly survived my schooling. and i now feel it is my duty to help others learn, just by sharing reflecting and listening.
that janitor, fictinal or not is one stone cold mofo :P
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Re: Lipstick In School [Re: Diploid]
#7649260 - 11/17/07 10:05 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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the story is just not probable. girls at the age twelve don't wear lipstick. teenage girls don't even really wear lipstick. most 20+ girls don't wear lipstick either. (old women generally wear lipstick)
and a janitor can't clean something using water from a toilet. he'd get fired and the girls' parents would probably go for legal action.
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Re: Lipstick In School [Re: Diploid]
#7649276 - 11/17/07 10:09 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Some people have no grasp of what small town life is like.
I know of a school that would be capable of this, and none of the parents in the community would care either.
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VisionsToReality said: find me the police record and ill believe it. till then it's ridiculous to me!
You made the claim that it's not true. You show the proof/
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Re: Lipstick In School [Re: Redstorm]
#7649329 - 11/17/07 10:22 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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OK.
Twelve year olds are in Middle School. The only middle school in Garden City, MI is Garden City Middle School.
I searched Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Ask Jeeves, and Dogpile for any lipstick story that ties in with Garden City Middle School. Nothing came up.
STORY = FALSE
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Re: Lipstick In School [Re: Mojo]
#7649345 - 11/17/07 10:26 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Some people have no grasp of what small town life is like.
I know of a school that would be capable of this, and none of the parents in the community would care either.
Garden City, Michigan has a population of 30,047. The city I live in has a population of EDITTED If you consider Garden City a small town, then I think I'd be able to 'grasp' what a small town life is like.
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Re: Lipstick In School [Re: notapillow]
#7649347 - 11/17/07 10:27 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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notapillow said: private schools?
i checked for public, charter, AND private schools.
story is  
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In some states elementary school goes up to grade 6.
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Re: Lipstick In School [Re: Mojo]
#7649357 - 11/17/07 10:29 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Mojo said: In some states elementary school goes up to grade 6.
Were you 12 in 6th grade?
I was 16 in 12th grade, meaning i was 15 in 11th, 14 in 10th, 13 in 9th, and 12 in 8th.
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Re: Lipstick In School [Re: Redstorm]
#7649379 - 11/17/07 10:35 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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VisionsToReality said: find me the police record and ill believe it. till then it's ridiculous to me!
You made the claim that it's not true. You show the proof/
no, i dont care enough
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Re: Lipstick In School [Re: Mojo]
#7649382 - 11/17/07 10:37 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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you graduated at 16? your BULLSHIT!
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Re: Lipstick In School [Re: notapillow]
#7649384 - 11/17/07 10:38 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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notapillow said: you graduated at 16? your BULLSHIT!
I graduated at 17. I started my senior year as 16. My birthday is in November.
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Mojo said: In some states elementary school goes up to grade 6.
Were you 12 in 6th grade?
I was 16 in 12th grade, meaning i was 15 in 11th, 14 in 10th, 13 in 9th, and 12 in 8th.
I turned 18 right before I completed high school, I didn’t skip or fail any grades.
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I graduated at 17. I started my senior year as 16. My birthday is in November.
Ok you graduated at 17, and before you conveniently edited your post, you confidently proclaimed that you skipped a grade. So do the math.
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Re: Lipstick In School [Re: Mojo]
#7649398 - 11/17/07 10:41 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Douglas Elementary School, Farmington Elementary School, Henry Ruff School, Lathers School, and Memorial Elementary School, which are all the elementary schools in the Garden City School District, all come up blank with any lipstick 'news story'.
Convinced now that the story is ?
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Does the local news in that city have an internet archive?
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Re: Lipstick In School [Re: Mojo]
#7649408 - 11/17/07 10:43 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Mojo said:
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notapillow said: you graduated at 16? your BULLSHIT!
I graduated at 17. I started my senior year as 16. My birthday is in November.
Ok you graduated at 17, and before you conveniently edited your post, you confidently proclaimed that you skipped a grade. So do the math.
Yeah, I skipped a grade while i was attending an elementary school in China. Which became irrelevant when i came to America. So i edited my post because me skipping a grade had no effect on my grade level here at all. I still had to retake the 2nd grade.
So in fact, I did the math. And i was still 12 in 8th grade.
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Re: Lipstick In School [Re: Mojo]
#7649409 - 11/17/07 10:44 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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search for " lipstcik " with it not news story
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Re: Lipstick In School [Re: Mojo]
#7649414 - 11/17/07 10:46 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Mojo said: Does the local news in that city have an internet archive?
And yes, it does.
HERE
EDIT: also, the website has a search engine in which i conveniently used.
oh, what a surprise, nothing came up when i searched for 'lipstick', 'lipstick janitor', 'lipstick 12 year old girls', etc.
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I remember seeing this on Snopes
I couldn't find what their assessment on its validity was though.
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Re: Lipstick In School [Re: OpFoxdie]
#7649466 - 11/17/07 11:10 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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this wa son snopes seems pretty small time
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Re: Lipstick In School [Re: OpFoxdie]
#7649470 - 11/17/07 11:11 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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OK, so the story might be true due to pseudo-ostension?
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Re: Lipstick In School [Re: OpFoxdie]
#7649479 - 11/17/07 11:14 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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That article dates back 10yrs ago. And I can’t find any news article that date back to 1997 in the busted-ass website that meatcakeman provided.
It’s plausible that this was printed in a local newspaper and the original entry isn’t archived on the internet.
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Is that a question? I'll get back to you when I find my dictionary.
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Re: Lipstick In School [Re: Mojo]
#7649494 - 11/17/07 11:20 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Deliberate reenaction of an existing legend. Knew that one right of the top of my head
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Re: Lipstick In School [Re: OpFoxdie]
#7649500 - 11/17/07 11:21 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Re: Lipstick In School [Re: Mojo]
#7649502 - 11/17/07 11:22 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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THIS story that the thread poster posted is FALSE, as there are tons of similar stories claiming that this happened in a myriad of different cities and states, but the core story in itself (janitor gets back at lipstick-wearing girls) could be true in that these janitors reenacted this legend after hearing about it.
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Re: Lipstick In School [Re: Diploid]
#7649538 - 11/17/07 11:32 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Legend: Custodian demonstrates to schoolgirls how he removes lipstick from a mirror.
Example: [Collected on the Internet, 1997]
A principal of a small middle school had a problem with a few of the older girls starting to use lipstick. When applying it in the bathroom they would then press their lips to the mirror and leave lip prints.
Before it got out of hand he thought of a way to stop it. He gathered all the girls together that wore lipstick and told them he wanted to meet with them in the ladies room at 2pm. They gathered at 2pm and found the principal and the school custodian waiting for them.
The principal explained that it was becoming a problem for the custodian to clean the mirror every night. He said he felt the ladies did not fully understand just how much of a problem it was and he wanted them to witness just how hard it was to clean.
The custodian then demonstrated. He took a long brush on a handle out of a box. He then dipped the brush in the nearest toilet, moved to the mirror and proceeded to remove the lipstick.
That was the last day the girls pressed their lips on the mirror.
Origins: This bit now circulates on the Internet as a "true story," and it may well be. School janitors have at times had to take creative approaches to combating Smack! the marking effects of what the students can get up to, and at least one of our readers recalls seeing a note taped to a mirror in one of her high school's girls' bathrooms that informed whoever was putting lip-prints on the mirror that the mirrors were cleaned with the same brush as the toilets.
That was back in the late-1980s, which greatly predates even the earliest version of this anecdote, which appeared numerous times on the USENET newsgroup rec.humor in April 1997. It lacked validating details found in later Internet versions: that the incident happened "at a middle school in Oregon," "at a middle school in Beaverton, Oregon," or that "According to a radio report, a school in London ..."
That the lip print tale has since appeared in a handful of newspapers adds to its spread. Though each of the columnists who ran it presented it as something fetched back from cyberspace and did not claim it as a true story, we are conditioned to view what we find in newspapers as accounts of facts, things that have been checked out by eagle-eyed reporters. Consequently, such appearances in the print media foster belief in all manner of legends.
Could this have actually happened? Well, it appears so. In at least a few cases, folks who work for schools have turned the legend to their advantage by using it to combat a lipsticked mirror problem at their facilities. These acts of pseudo-ostension (the deliberate re-enactment of an existing legend) have served to make the custodians' jobs a bit easier.
Do pre-adolescent girls make smooch marks on mirrors? Surprisingly enough, they do. No one knows exactly what prompts this urge, but it might be tied to a need to see tangible proof that they're changing from girls into women. Little girls don't wear lipstick but women do, and women wear it to make themselves look sexy. To a pre-teen, making lipstick prints could be a way of seeing if she looks pretty or grown up, or at least if her lips do. Or it could be a way of pissing off authority figures by an action which combines an element of vandalism with a clear announcement of "I'm developing a sense of my sexuality, and there's not a darned thing you can do about it."
Moreover, kissing a mirror is an odd way of finding out what a girl is going to look like to the boys she'll soon be trysting with. (Hint of the day: Yell "Bloody Mary!" thirteen times at the mirror instead. You'll scare yourself a lot less.) Or it could be for the simplest of all reasons: the same "Kilroy was here" motivation that prompts us to scrawl our names in yearbooks, spraypaint them onto rocks, or etch dirty ditties on the walls of lavatories.
Lipstick is hard to scrub off a mirror, so keep this story in mind and your toilet brush at the ready should a pre-teen in your household begin to show a peculiar fascination with your lip rouge.
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Re: Lipstick In School [Re: Diploid]
#7649580 - 11/17/07 11:45 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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wow, you guys have taken this all so seriously...
I took it as a joke and laughed my ass off...
Calm down people.
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Do you live in Claremont, California?
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No, but even if I did, I wouldn't admit to it on teh internetz.
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Re: Lipstick In School [Re: Diploid]
#7649632 - 11/18/07 12:04 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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nothing is. it's just that I wouldn't post the city I live in online.
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Re: Lipstick In School [Re: Diploid]
#7649646 - 11/18/07 12:10 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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i wonder what would happen if they kissed the mirror and said janitor three times?
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Re: Lipstick In School [Re: Liquidkick]
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Liquidkick said: wow, you guys have taken this all so seriously...
I took it as a joke and laughed my ass off...
Calm down people.
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Re: Lipstick In School [Re: Mojo]
#7649847 - 11/18/07 01:36 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I thought it was a lovely story. Whether it is real or not, is a moot point. It might as well have happened.
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