Those are a bitch to put out. When I was in Fire Camp, at the end of the week, we had to put out a gas tank, a dumpster and a car with our teams. The dumpster was by far the easiest, but it retains heat - we had to cool the thing thouroughly before we were "finished."

Nah, man. It's all good. The only thing is that people frown on double posting here - ie, posting twice in quick succession. We wanna hear your input, though just hit the edit button and fit it into one post.

At my school, they did, which is why he won. He became pretty damn popular after that day though.

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Science fact: everything can be improved with musical numbers. Everything.

Not really movie-worthy, but my high school graduation ceremony was better than yours, and let me tell you why.

We were going through the evening, the same hollow words and motions that always fill these things--I don't know why we, as a culture, assign days as "important" and then strip them of all soul, but we do. Finally, near the end of the ceremony, the valedictorian stepped up to the podium... and began to give a totally different speech from the one he had printed in our program. He smiled, acknowledging our principal, who was quietly flipping out in the back. "The speech in the program is okay," he went on, "but generic. Besides," his grin widened, "what's the point of giving this speech... if you already know what I'm going to say?"

He continued, discussing his experiences over the previous for years and recognizing each of his friends. He also threw in a few references to "Mr. Roboto," being that he was a Styx fan and sometimes implied to be a robot because he was just so smart. "But I'm not," he said. One by one, he began to remove all the medals and decals decorating his gown, placing them on the podium in front, and slowly removed his hat, placing it with the pile. "I'm Mike." With that, Mike left his assorted decorations on the podium and silently returned to his seat.

EDIT: There was also the year a riot broke out at the spring celebration, but that happened on like the only day I've ever gone to bed early. Nevertheless the less, the pictures have been archived online for posterity:

http://www.rofflehaus.com/w/images/t...iot_mayhem.jpg

My friend Matt had a pretty cool speech but that is one of the coolest graduation speeches I have ever heard of.

Man for our high school graduation we just got our certificates handed to us then spent the rest of the day drinking on school grounds and playing pranks on the lower years which were still in class.
Not nearly as theatrical.

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I have a great good-feeling kind of movie moment in my life:

Quite a few years ago, two little boys got on a plane from The Philippines to America, about 4 or 5 years old each. One was blind and one was deaf and they were both going over to America as special needs adoptions. At that time, I remember my sister-in-law's best friend was adopting a special needs child from The Philippines, and she was told there was a blind boy and a deaf boy that she could choose from, and she chose the deaf boy. The blind boy went to a totally different family, who, after a year or so, ended up having to be removed from the family because of abuse and other such things (apparently they didn't want the blind boy they had adopted. :shifty:) The blind boy's private agency then had only a few weeks to find a new family before having to send the child back to the orphanage in The Philippines. The private agency so happened to be run by my dad's coworker, who told my dad the whole story, who told my brother and sister-in-law the whole story, who had been considering having children. In a leap of faith, they ended up adopting him. Since my sister-in-law's best friend adopted the other boy that had come over with my nephew, the two were reunited and are best friends today.

I think it's pretty damn sweet. There's something really poetic about watching two best friends, one blind and one deaf, playing together. They make a good pair.

Eh. Ours had a sarcastic, misanthropic midget explaining how after that day we were on our own to protect ourselves from the ravenous wolves that roam our suburban town, amongst other things.

My animals just preformed a movie type scene.

1 dog, 1 cat, 1 treat.

Golden Retriever named Zoey was getting a treat tossed to her for no real reason. The devious cat named Optimus Prime jumped in the way of the treat, grabbed it when it landed on the ground and ran off.

Zoey, seeing the cat run away with her treat gave chase. They ran around the living room for a bit till Optimus got up high where Zoey couldn't get him. as he ate the treat while making sure zoey could see him eat it, he used his tail to knock things down at the dog. I should really have punished him, but it was to damn funny and the things weren't breakable.

Now the dog planned a revenge and wandered off after getting things dropped on her. She came back with Optimus's blanket and the proceded to chew and slobber all over it. I guess it pissed him off cause he jumped off the shelving and onto the dogs back and Zoey chased her around the house again till Optimus hid in the bath sink. Zoey eventually got bored trying to get the cat and wandered away.

Wow! It's like a real live Tom and Jerry moment!