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Not The Reason

by Paul Taylor on September 20, 2016 at 11:21 pm
Story: Wapsi-Archive
Characters: Abbie, Berdine
Location: Gryphon High

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Discussion (29) ¬

  1. BarerMender
    September 20, 2016, 11:38 pm | # | Reply

    I’m on nins and peedles. Or, as Florence King likes to say, I’m on “tender hooks.”

    • Jaelithe
      September 20, 2016, 11:43 pm | # | Reply

      It’s “tenterhooks”. Originally used for hanging wool on a frame.

      • BarerMender
        September 21, 2016, 9:58 pm | #

        I know what tenterhooks are, you puddin’head. If I’d meant to say tenterhooks, I bloody well would have said tenterhooks.

      • Jaelithe
        September 22, 2016, 10:23 am | #

        Considering the propensity of people on the Internet to spell phonetically when they don’t know the actual word or phrase, my correction was not out of line. I feel that the name-calling was quite uncalled-for.

      • PlayaSinNombre
        September 25, 2016, 3:24 pm | #

        BarMen included quotation marks, & a source… since you are reading this on a machine hooked up to the intrawebz… & apparently couldn’t be bothered to do 5 second search for Florence King… before criticizing, I don’t think naming you “puddin’head” was uncalled-for.

    • EvilKiru
      September 21, 2016, 1:52 am | # | Reply

      “tenterhooks”

      • CptNerd
        September 21, 2016, 11:10 am | #

        You need to read Florence King.

    • Fogel
      September 21, 2016, 1:08 pm | # | Reply

      I think tender hooks sound less painfull: I choose those.

      • PlayaSinNombre
        September 25, 2016, 3:19 pm | #

        Okay, you have chosen the hooks designed to be attached to your tender bits…. is that your final answer?

  2. Golnor
    September 20, 2016, 11:42 pm | # | Reply

    The penny’s still flying for me.

    • scantrontb
      September 21, 2016, 12:34 am | # | Reply

      that “penny” is doing a DAMN Fine impression of Sputnik to ME… the ONLY thing i can think of is that Devyn’s gay and that Abbie and all the other girls AREN’T… and that threw things for a loop in Devyn’s mind… and it’s only NOW that Abbie caught on??! maybe?

      • Gyrre
        September 21, 2016, 12:45 am | #

        And moreover that Devyn may have a crush on Abbey.

      • Zalrein
        September 21, 2016, 1:42 am | #

        I don’t know, I’m leaning Asexuality myself, Gryphon High seems pretty chill about people scoring other then 1.0 on the Kinsley Scale. Plus giving the promiscuity of Devyn’s relatives, it would be the cause of drama, and when speculating Wapsi Square.. always assume MAXIMUM DRAMA!!!

      • Reegsi
        September 21, 2016, 6:12 am | #

        I doubt shes asexual. She never has around guys, but she sure blushes alot around girls. Plus how flustered she was after that ‘talk’ with Atsali.

      • Guesticus
        September 21, 2016, 2:51 pm | #

        Same here: if she wasn’t angry about Dean being objectified, then maybe she was jealous of the attention he was getting?

  3. fairportfan
    September 21, 2016, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    Been a while since we’ve seen Berdine.

    • Guesticus
      September 21, 2016, 2:50 pm | # | Reply

      Dang, almost forgot that Dette was a twin

  4. Tricia
    September 21, 2016, 6:14 am | # | Reply

    I’m thinking that Devyn just realized that her threshold for sexual excitement is in a different location than her peers. Can’t say why she wasn’t reacting like the others, but it does make it interesting to see what comes of it.

  5. TazManiac
    September 21, 2016, 7:58 am | # | Reply

    I’m gonna say she likes the Sub, but it wasn’t fun and games for her, ‘dis might be Sear-ee-ous!’…

    • Michael Birks
      September 22, 2016, 4:53 am | # | Reply

      It could have Seer-ee-our, given the family of who she’s talking to here.

  6. Ren
    September 21, 2016, 8:36 am | # | Reply

    Hrmmm…

  7. HowNowBrownCow
    September 21, 2016, 10:18 am | # | Reply

    I’m just glad no one got sent to the hell dimension this time

  8. Naldru
    September 21, 2016, 2:01 pm | # | Reply

    I believe that the idea is that the substitute teacher wants to teach and be seen as a teacher and treated as a teacher. The communal “doe eyes” was the same as a cat call. They were acting that way because they viewed him as a hunk, not as a teacher. If you enter the combination of objectified and meaning in Google, it defines objectify as “degrade to the status of a mere object”. If people viewed Devyn as simply a very scary girl who sends people to hell rather than as a person, Devyn would be upset. If they made the feeling apparent through their actions, she would be very upset.

  9. Centaur71
    September 21, 2016, 10:51 pm | # | Reply

    T the risk of sounding stupid, what’s a penny-drop moment? I never heard of it…

    • BarerMender
      September 21, 2016, 11:03 pm | # | Reply

      I’m guessing it refers to old fashioned pay phones. You’d put a coin in and make your call, and the coin would eventually drop into the lock box, indicating your time was almost over and you’d need to deposit another coin to keep talking. Except, at 67, I’m not old enough to remember when a payphone cost a penny. It might be a reference to some other kind of machine, or to something British.

      • BarerMender
        September 21, 2016, 11:06 pm | #

        Well, Internet says the phrase goes back to at least 1939, so it could refer to a pay phone. In any case, it indicates a belated realization.

    • The Quantum Magician
      September 22, 2016, 12:33 pm | # | Reply

      I believe it’s from the old Penny Arcade machines. In the early 1930’s (-ish), arcades had mechanical machines for amusement (picture boxing, bowling, pool, pinball, etc.) For the machine to be functional, you had to put a penny in. When the “penny dropped”, the machine worked. In this case, the machine is your thought process.

      • BarerMender
        September 23, 2016, 12:49 pm | #

        The arcade machine doesn’t bring in the idea of delay, though, like the phone does.

      • Guesticus
        September 24, 2016, 1:06 am | #

        Yes, that fairly much is it: when the penny dropped the machine whirs into ‘life’, and in the most common sense, it is your brain finally kicking into gear

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