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...just watching a football game and getting flashed by a singer's breast. It's the unwanted porn e-mail or the hamburger commercial with a woman lasciviously riding a mechanical bull. It's watching a sports program with your young child and hearing the host blurt, "A______!" Tim Tutt, a single, third-grade teacher in Des Moines, calls himself "a liberal, anticensorship person." But he was furious when he visited a website for his students and up popped an ad with a sexy blond. "Boy, did I lose control of the class for a moment," he says. "Then...
Then, Farkes will tell you what, precisely, the catcher just can’t bring himself to blurt out—what most in the Ivy League have long been afraid...
...instance, as a second-semester class begins, a professor will ask the jittery rabble for questions about the course. Invariably one among us will blurt it out: “Will this class be making accommodations for thesis-writing seniors...
...amount of mail from boys. I think if the character is kidlike enough, and in this case sort of naughty in a lot of innocent ways, boys like that. I think kids like to read about other kids who are normal, who make mistakes and get in trouble and blurt things out. And of course they love humor, so that's just almost too easy sometimes...
...spontaneous. [Laughs.] I tended to find myself ever so amusing. And I wanted to share. So I tended to blurt out. I was sent to the principal's office in first grade. But I wasn't a bad kid. If teachers looked back, they wouldn't remember me with harshness...