2 Nov 2008
Ugh!
wrote a long blog, hit post and poof it was gone. All gone 
Well, I’m done typing for today. One hour of my life. Poof gone. Nothing to show for it.
Ok, two hours later and I’m going to give this a second go.
Curbside: The Boring History
The Twenty Men Who Formed Curbside
Curbside started out like most other places as a piece of farmland owned by twenty farmers who wanted to live by their own rules and away from cities and society. They originally hated one another and all wanted to be better than the other. A group of Natives started to steal things from them along with other marauders and criminals. They decided to form their own city Waterdeep, as they wanted a name with a little caution as well there was a river five feet long and ten feet deep that ran about twenty miles an hour. One slip and you’d be sent downriver bashing your head and vital organs on every sharp rock along the way.
With a name like Waterdeep many criminals came to the small town. The twenty men weren’t exactly holy men themselves decided to shape their own rules and laws. A land outside federal and provincial laws. People started calling it Curbside as it was on the edge of lawlessness, on the edge of prosperity, precariously between rich and poor.
Shh! A phone call from the future on Radio Triple J!!
Aah, forget it that’s enough for today anyway.
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Curbside History 2
Wednesday
The twenty leaders of Curbside were all male and discovered that making a school would give them a government grant. They swiftly realized that no government official would actually go out to the middle of nowhere to see how the money was really spent.
The school was really more like an odd three story mall mostly classrooms and a gym, but also a casino, church and whorehouse. They got cheap labourers in to do most of the work and got donations from other business leaders of the community. The school only taught boys, not because it was a boys school, but because women were yet to be called persons under the law, and no young women had ever asked to enter school so none were ever present in the classes.
Later, five women would build the first all girls school to make a point that girls were better than boys. Although their school was built with cheap labourers they were unable to get good architects. Male architects didn’t like women talking down to them and paying a cheap wage without a discount on a nearby whorehouse. This forced the girls school to add two extra wings, one for teaching girls how to become nurses and one wing dedicated solely to dealing with patients building both the school and the hospital.
The original school became a boys school only to distinguish itself further from the girls. The boys school was much bigger and constantly expanding into different academics and trading practices, while the girls school five miles away through a park was always in a state of disrepair until some nuns and wichens took over some of the jobs. The five women who started the girls school continued to hate the Curbside Founding Fathers and their boys school and the rivalry continued.
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