Hacker News
new
|
past
|
comments
|
ask
|
show
|
jobs
|
submit
login
litoE
on Jan 1, 2022
|
parent
|
context
|
favorite
| on:
If – A Poem by Rudyard Kipling
When I was in 7th grade in 1959 our punishment for misbehaviour was having to return to school on a Saturday afternoon and write out Kipling's "If" two or three hundred times in longhand.
Blammar
on Jan 1, 2022
[–]
Perhaps the number of repetitions has grown over time in your embellished memory. Even at 5 minutes per writing and 200 times, that's 16+ hours.
sswaner
on Jan 1, 2022
|
parent
[–]
Or perhaps litoE was frequently punished, accumulating hundreds of copies....
Guidelines
|
FAQ
|
Lists
|
API
|
Security
|
Legal
|
Apply to YC
|
Contact
Search:
