Who am I?

[retired]

After a request for info by another member of this forum; ... I am a retired high school principal with a background in physics, electronics, computing and magic. I have acted as a technical adviser to a well known professional magician in OZ and rarely perform formally myself. I enjoy researching and developing effects, gimmicks and presentation and I am happy to share my knowledge with any serious devotee of the magical arts.

[haroldross]

Welcome to the community.

You have quite a background there. I don't know where my magic would be without my background in chemistry and physics.

Glad to have you around!

[Misjief]

A retired PRINCIPAL!!...

Oh we should get along great! I knew I liked you! Do you have any idea how much time I spent in your cohorts offices for some of my pranks? I was a problem child for them in more ways then one! I spent more time in that office (or the school physiologist*) then I did in class. LOL

*That GUY, was so fun to mess with!

Oh the joys of public school *sigh*... I was a constantly picked on because I was a Nerd's Nerd with a HUGE bull's eye painted on my chest. I had the bad leg with the built up shoe and the crossed eyes. Fairly pitiful! This was before I broke my good leg's femur and learned martial arts as therapy. I practically had to beg my way into the D&D club and the like, when they were actively RECRUITING.

Anyway, my way of getting even with the bullies was practical jokes. I loaded their lockers with morning breeze (Read: concentrated rotten egg) - "one drop is all it takes".... Screw that! They each earned a eye watering, mouth souring bottle!

They used to put me in a trash can and roll me down the hall. One day I saw them waiting for me at the bottom of the stairs so I hopped in the trash can and went "human bowling". (They got some serious bruises and caught trouble for it because no one believe that I started it and they were known for it. No one even asked me they just went with the obvious conclusion!)

They locked me in my gym locker at the end of class once - I cracked everyone up in the next class up by quietly waiting and then making comments about them as they undressed. "Hay String Bean! How do you keep those shorts on?". I took a nap while they cut me out, and I refused to tell who did it. Over the next couple of weeks, I'd pick the bullies locker locks and switched them up on them. At first they were cutting the locks off - and it cost the bully ten dollars a lock. After they figured out what was going on, they'd tag up and speed 20 mins running around opening each others locks. Detention for being tardy or no books - your choice! The teacher knew exactly what was going on, and dependably played their parts. I stopped when they gave me the nod, enough was enough.

The biggest ruckus was my JR year in high school when my sister (who was popular), got in on it, knocking my shoe out from under me, and I hit her in a very 'brotherly' way. The football team saw me hit a girl (who was my sister, and deserved it as she was physically hurting me). So they dragged me outside to whitewash me. I was mad enough I took them on and started swinging. I was was just learning martial arts and caught a couple of them with a couple sound punches. So they surrounded me and moved as I did, just to herd me, confused as to what to do. My sister arrived with a couple of teachers to break it up. Once they heard the whole story (from my embarrassed sister and the teachers) they started hiding and trashing the bullies when they showed up to pick on me. They did it so quietly, I never knew till later what happened, just I got left alone for a while. After that I got fairly good (considering) at martial arts. The one guy who snuck through their guard got pummeled by me before BOTH of us knew what was happening. (He threw me into a wall and I bounced off of it and threw a good knee kick and elbow into him, as a reflex on the rebound.) LOL

Anyways It was ALWAYS either the Principal and/or the Science teacher who took showed an interest in me...

The first one was a Science Teacher. We were dissecting a dead dog that day - I walked in, pretended it was mine and started bawling. It was suppose to be a joke, but it went over so well it, it 'bombed' and I never 'fessed up. We were the best of buddies afterward, and I always felt really guilty about it.

One of my science teachers helped me build my first computer from a kit - When few people really knew what they were! He was the hidden inspiration behind the finger biting 'mousetrap belt' to ward off the bastards who thought that underwear snapping 'snuggie' was ever so hilarious. It earned an 'attempted' article in the school paper - 'Butt-crack Bites Back'.

My favorite principal would give me detention - wait till everyone left then take me out for for coffee and pie and we'd talk about guy stuff. What a riot! He would give me a ride home knowing I missed the bus. I loved his version of detention!

Thanks for the nostalgia! LOL
-misj-

[Alex Hess]

Welcome aboard retired!

I love physics & science, I spend a lot of my time researching. Mostly fascinated with space, time, and biology.

As for the principal part.... what was the coolest thing you did/saw when you worked?

See you around!

[Sam Hindrichs]

All I can say is I am very happy to have another father figure on the forums. I love having 5 dads!