Saw this bumper sticker today...

[MOONDAWG]

Not sure if I'm for it...they were deadly enough with a ruler.

Boyo, you'll smoke a terd in hell fer dat one!

 

[Papa Smith 625]

Confused

Not sure if I'm for it...they were deadly enough with a ruler.

Confused! Does it mean: We will trade Nuns for guns, or Guns for Nuns?

 

[ordy]

Not being Catholic and not having attended Catholic schools, I was always amused by the "mean Nuns" stories from my Catholic friends.
Bottom line, you'll never get me to believe anything but the best about these selfless and devoted servants of God.

I'm glad you had that relationship with the nuns. I guess you had to have lived through the parochial school experience to truly understand it. The thing that amazes me is that if you live on the east coast and talk to someone living on the west coast about the nuns, they all have the same stories...I mean even the language and terms are the same...."you bold brazen article"!

 

[vytoland]

Not being Catholic and not having attended Catholic schools, I was always amused by the "mean Nuns" stories from my Catholic friends. But later in my life I worked for a large Catholic health care organization, and during my earlier years with the company (mid to late 1990's) there were many of the sponsoring Sisters actively working in the organization. If there were any mean ones I never ran into any of them. The Sisters that I worked with were wonderful, generous, caring and ego-less people that never lost sight of the ministry that their predecessors began in the late 1800's. These Sisters tried their best to instill in the lay workers like myself the values represented by Catholic health care and the Mission of the sponsoring order. I felt it an honor to be trusted, as a senior executive in the organization, to continue their ministry of caring and healing.

Unfortunately, as the Sisters aged out of the work force, their presence became less and less visible, and by the time I had retired in 2013, the same company had grown through several mergers into a mega-health care corporation with little beyond lip service to the founding Catholic mission.

Bottom line, you'll never get me to believe anything but the best about these selfless and devoted servants of God.

yes, and I'm from the government and I'm here to help you....

 

[gustmez1]

Today's Nuns versus 1950

Not being Catholic and not having attended Catholic schools, I was always amused by the "mean Nuns" stories from my Catholic friends. But later in my life I worked for a large Catholic health care organization, and during my earlier years with the company (mid to late 1990's) there were many of the sponsoring Sisters actively working in the organization. If there were any mean ones I never ran into any of them. The Sisters that I worked with were wonderful, generous, caring and ego-less people that never lost sight of the ministry that their predecessors began in the late 1800's. These Sisters tried their best to instill in the lay workers like myself the values represented by Catholic health care and the Mission of the sponsoring order. I felt it an honor to be trusted, as a senior executive in the organization, to continue their ministry of caring and healing.

Unfortunately, as the Sisters aged out of the work force, their presence became less and less visible, and by the time I had retired in 2013, the same company had grown through several mergers into a mega-health care corporation with little beyond lip service to the founding Catholic mission.

Bottom line, you'll never get me to believe anything but the best about these selfless and devoted servants of God.

Vito you said it well, but the Nuns of the 50's were a different story. Could be just as kind and loving, but ruled with an iron hand. Taught us well. Of course those were the days when you got in trouble at school your parents would whack you again when you got home. Many good teachers and administrators today go on trial the minute they try to enforce any type of discipline which is often much needed and deserved. It seems the philosophy of today is if my child misbehaves slap the kid next to him, but don't you dare correct my darling.

 

[doc84]

Not sure if I'm for it...they were deadly enough with a ruler.

Or, it could be the ad campaign for a new gym that just opened. Our Lady of Muscular Hypertorphy. Rows and rows of preacher curl benches.

 

[NYlakesider]

Not being Catholic and not having attended Catholic schools, I was always amused by the "mean Nuns" stories from my Catholic friends. But later in my life I worked for a large Catholic health care organization, and during my earlier years with the company (mid to late 1990's) there were many of the sponsoring Sisters actively working in the organization. If there were any mean ones I never ran into any of them. The Sisters that I worked with were wonderful, generous, caring and ego-less people that never lost sight of the ministry that their predecessors began in the late 1800's. These Sisters tried their best to instill in the lay workers like myself the values represented by Catholic health care and the Mission of the sponsoring order. I felt it an honor to be trusted, as a senior executive in the organization, to continue their ministry of caring and healing.

Unfortunately, as the Sisters aged out of the work force, their presence became less and less visible, and by the time I had retired in 2013, the same company had grown through several mergers into a mega-health care corporation with little beyond lip service to the founding Catholic mission.

Bottom line, you'll never get me to believe anything but the best about these selfless and devoted servants of God.

Well as you said you're not catholic and never went to a catholic school, well I did (9 years) and it's a good bet they had holly pictures up on the wall right next to a picture of the Marquis De Sade. Those nuns could be friendly as long as all went well, get their goat and you got the 2' pointer or as a back up some nuns used a heavy 12'' ruler. They were about a 3/8 x 1 1/2 inches and they made you put your hands on a desk and depending on what you did or did not do they used either the 3/8 end or the wide side (about a 1 1/2). It was common to hit so hard that they broke. I think the dioceses got them wholesale they went through so many.

Tell you folks when you got home and they would say you must have real deserved it so shut up.

As far as crossing the priests they were known to hit with clenched fists.

 

[labworm]

But we all survived and came out with a damn good education.

Just quoting the Vegas line, "What happens in class stays in class"
Never tell your parents, a double whammy.

 

[A10]

Well as you said you're not catholic and never went to a catholic school, well I did (9 years) and it's a good bet they had holly pictures up on the wall right next to a picture of the Marquis De Sade. Those nuns could be friendly as long as all went well, get their goat and you got the 2' pointer or as a back up some nuns used a heavy 12'' ruler. They were about a 3/8 x 1 1/2 inches and they made you put your hands on a desk and depending on what you did or did not do they used either the 3/8 end or the wide side (about a 1 1/2). It was common to hit so hard that they broke. I think the dioceses got them wholesale they went through so many.

Tell you folks when you got home and they would say you must have real deserved it so shut up.

As far as crossing the priests they were known to hit with clenched fists.

A style of Nun-Jutsu I suppose?

 

[fiasconva]

Best one I've seen in a while said, "And you thought Carter sucked."

 

[Engineer1911]

We try harder in Georgia:

 

[mc5aw]

I had a nun in 4th grade.....Picture Gunnery Sargent Hartman in a habit doing the scene in FMJ and you got a pretty accurate picture. Only she was a bit meaner.

Caj ... You were Private Joker, no doubt.

 

[Model 19 6"]

The Nuns taught me well. They are the reason I hold doors open, say yes sir and yes mam.

 

[Lisa M]

I saw one car in Santa Fe that had a sticker with "No War" right next to one that said "Free Tibet." The driver just happened to approach at that time, and my colleague pointed to the Tibet sticker and said, "You can't have that..." and then pointed to the War sticker and said "without that." The lady stuttered and stammered, got mad, and quickly drove away. Typical of "The City Different."

haha..don't let logic ruin a good bumper sticker.. They've changed it to "Save Tibet" now.

 

[shouldazagged]

Many years ago an elderly nun who taught in a parochial elementary school near where I lived was in somewhat diminished health and finally had to retire. She was much loved, and the parish threw a great retirement party for her.

At the party one of the other nuns from the school told a story about a day when Sister ******* felt ill and had to leave the classroom and go to her quarters. The nun who took over the class for her needed to ask her a question. She wrote it in a note and gave it to a little girl in the class with instructions to take it to Sister's room. Shortly after that the child came back, still holding the note and crying.

When asked what was wrong she said, "When I got to Sister's room she wasn't there. There was just a little old man in the bed and an empty sister on the chair."

 

[model70hunter]

Never tell your parents, a double whammy.

This is da truth and da whole truth no matter which house of worship your parents chose.

 

[Fishslayer]

I saw this one recently.
I thought it was sort of a conflicting message.

"I love NY, and don't tread on me."
Seems like those two bumper stickers cancel each other out.

Been posted here more than once and having been to upstate NY I can assure you that NYC does NOT mean all of New York. There are some beautiful places and good people there.

 

[rcnixon]

We had a neighbor across the street from my parent's summer house who was the original "Muggable Mary" decoy with the New York Transit police. She had a nice four-inch Model 66 (note the S&W content) presented to her by the Honorable John V. Lindsay, then the Mayor of New York City, for winning the City police pistol competition. When she retired from the Transit Authority, she became a Carmelite Sister, an order that lives away from the world in cloistered convents in a life of prayer and contemplation. She was a lovely lady and a damn fine infielder for the neighborhood softball team.

I went to school from the mid-50's to the late 60's with the Sisters of Charity in grade school and the Irish Christian Brothers in high school. As with any group of people, some were mean but most were nice and I've always been thankful for the education they sometimes had to pound into me.

Russ

 

[kozmic]

[QUO "What happens in class stays in class"
[/QUOTE]

I dunno labworm...the welts always followed me home (so I could think about my transgressions a little bit longer).

 

[Fishslayer]

I liked this *sticker*...