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They all suddenly wanted to give her the "fingertip test."

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<i>zzzzinggg!!!</i>

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Dad puritys her long time.

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Bitch, look what you've done now, you little slut!

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She drove me to Qum!

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But can we all even squeeze into a limousine?

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Oh God, does this mean I will have to somehow screw up the courage to (gulp) <i>ask someone</i> to be my <i>date?</i>

I'll wear my best tuxedo t-shirt.</i>

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Point taken. I think that when it is used here, the term is meant as shorthand for a particular subset of students and, even more specifically, their parents. The kids after all are still growing and therefore cannot be expected to be fully-formed and completely knowledgeable yet. The adults have no such excuse.

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Oh, hell, when my step-daughter was in high school, I had impure thoughts about her girl friends all the fucking time. But, they were, you know, <i>thoughts</i>. They didn't paralyze me, or turn me into a psychopath. Jeezus, try being adults, home-skooling dads.

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Apparently, it's somewhere beyond "Dad" grade.

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Well done.

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There was a decent X-Files episode sort of like that.

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I hadn't even thought about that, but yeah. "The dads on the balcony." What the flying fuck? I had two sons and a step-daughter, and I had no more desire to "monitor" their proms than my parents did to monitor mine. Eww.

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Did you have a homeschooler prom?

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God bless the American Taliban, they're well down the road to throwing acid in a teenage girl's face

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