St. Mark’s Students Demonstrate Lack of Common Sense
There are dozens of St. Mark’s kids walking through the Arts District right now, where it is approximately 27 degrees. That’s below the temperature at which water freezes. And to a man, they are all wearing shorts. I’m just saying, Cistercian kids would have enough sense to wear long pants. Go, Hawks!
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19 comments
Those boys NEVER wear pants, no matter what. They have an unwritten rule that they only wear the shorts, regardless of the weather.
Marksmen are a hardy breed. Sometimes foolhardy, perhaps, but hardy nonetheless.
Of course they’re wearing shorts! It’s a St. Mark’s tradition, but I wouldn’t expect a Cistercian man to grasp the little things that make St. Mark’s Dallas’ finest school…
@Jim
Did you mean to write “Scotsmen?”
Penance? Mortification of the flesh?
Cistercian men don’t bother with St. Mark’s minutiae
Oh boy! A my private school is not near as dorky as your private school thread! Yay!
I’m curious to now if the distance of the photo is a result of Tim’s weighing the advisability of photographing groups of children with his need for private school oneupsmanship.
@Peterk — Rogers does. Evidently. (A tip of the hat to Duane Thomas.)
@Chris Hansen: Eh? The photo resulted from my fumbling with my iPhone. The next shot I took, as I got closer the boys, was of the sidewalk. But there’s nothing wrong with taking pictures of people on the street — morally or legally.
Oh Tim, you are in Dallas. The only thing more likely to get you lynched than taking pictures of young girls in shorts is taking pictures of boys in shorts.
BTW my dawg in this fight is a senior at Casady. He’ll be at TCU next year we hope.
@Chris Hansen: I don’t now, do you now?
Touchy touchy. My apologies to both the upright moral brigade and the grammar police for my clear failure to be funny.
Yeah, Tim, if you’re going to risk arrest, at least take pictures of young girls in shorts.
And go for a judge, not a jury — no matter what your idiot overpriced lawyer says.
You kinda said it yourself in your headline – “to a man – shorts”, “boys in long pants”
and there you have it.
Cistercian huh? Forever relegated to red-headed stepchild status of dallas private schools. tucked away somewhere outside of dallas, nobody really knows these people. Without sports, it would be hard to say if cistercian even exists. does anybody REALLY know anybody from cistercian? an odd mob they are.
Because St. Mark’s guys are hardasses their getting labeled as having no common sense? Tell that to 95% of NFL players who never wear sleeves on game days in the snow. And by the way, to quote your own magazine from a few years back in the private schools issue, “Cistercian kids are socially awkward.” Pow.
@Benji Riverview: You really know how to cut a guy, don’t you? That one hurt. [slumps shoulders, kicks at dirt]
It is a little strange that the wee lads wear shorts in cold weather. As far as Benji Riverview’s comments, sure, the analogy works until you consider that the school kids in shorts, in downtown Dallas, were probably not playing sports. In fact, they were probably told not to run. So there you have it, those bare stalks sticking out and no rugby field in sight.
Kilts would make sense–if they were Scots. But they’re (probably) not. The common sense factor falls on the adults who make the rules. Is it so hard to have long pants on standby for cold days?