Kissing the mirror
March 19th, 2009
According to a news report, a certain private school in Victoria, BC recently was faced with a unique problem.
A number of year 12 girls were beginning to use lipstick and would put it on in the bathroom. That was fine, but after they put on their lipstick they would press their lips to the mirror leaving dozens of little lip prints. Every night, the maintenance man would remove them and the next day the girls would put them back.
Finally the principal decided that something had to be done. She called all the girls to the bathroom and met them there with the maintenance man. She explained that all these lip prints were causing a major problem for the custodian who had to clean the mirrors every night.
To demonstrate how difficult it had been to clean the mirrors, she asked the maintenance man to show the girls how much effort was required. He took out a long handled squeegee, dipped it in the toilet, and cleaned the mirror with it. Since then, there have been no lip prints on the mirror.
There are teachers, and then there are educators.
March 20th, 2009 at 11:25 am
That would definitely make a lasting impression on me. Funny stuff.
March 20th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
That is funny, really made me laugh.
March 20th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
This is hilarious, and quite true. It’s good to see these shining examples of educators in the American education system.
- Rev.
March 20th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
@Patrick:
Doesn’t the post say that this happened in Victoria, BC, as in British Columbia, which is I thought was in Canada? Now, I know that many people consider Canada to be the US’ 51st state, but we should at least wait till the Canadian body’s cold and before calling BC part of the American system… ahh the American educational system showing the fruits of it’s labor…
March 20th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
America extends from the northern shore of greenland to the south tip of chile.
March 20th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
To be fair there is no unified American system of education. Hopefully there never will be (NWO)
March 20th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Check snopes. This is FAKE.
March 20th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
@Demi
Does it matter if it’s fake?
March 20th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
haha, funny
March 20th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
kiss my mirror!
March 20th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
Canada is not America! This is a true(real) story. The janitor obviously didn’t clean the mirror with toilet water until the demonstration.
March 20th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
@Demi
I did check snopes, and it inconclusive, loser
Snopes usually has a green true or a red fake but this has neither, and more to the point parts of it are true and this *COULD* of happened.
http://www.snopes.com/risque/juvenile/lipstick.asp
March 21st, 2009 at 6:07 am
Owned :b
March 21st, 2009 at 7:59 am
Actually… Anyone who knows their geography, can intelligently say that Canada is a part of America.
Just like Mexico, Chile and Cuba to name a few.
You think I’m wrong? Check a map, what continents are these countries on? Yes, that is right.. North America and South America.
So Canada is part of America, just not the United States of America.
March 21st, 2009 at 11:11 am
there is no mention of America in the story. So leave it to the Canadians to go off half cocked
March 21st, 2009 at 2:35 pm
daaaaang – it wasn’t in the story; it was in Patrick’s response on March 20th that the America education system popped up. Still, thanks for your comment.
March 21st, 2009 at 3:47 pm
haha. Although this isn’t true, because it’s just a silly joke that my dad told me years ago… when I was a kid. Sooooo. Good on you for spreading the joke.
March 21st, 2009 at 7:54 pm
Where is this Canada place you are all going on about?
March 22nd, 2009 at 8:56 am
This is a very old story. I was told this by my sister back at least 30 years ago. Still effective though, I know it would work today.
March 22nd, 2009 at 9:40 am
hilarious!
expected something but not so!
good post.
March 22nd, 2009 at 11:38 am
Haha, this happened to me in middle school too (we had a week-long running sketch show that we put lipstick on for).
It was in Minnesota, though. I guess its a common solution.
March 23rd, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Funny and good! Saw one recently like that involving a copier, a woman’s lips and a man’s posterior. The best lessons are the difficult ones.
March 23rd, 2009 at 11:54 pm
This is an interesting story. Cleaning the lip mark is interesting. I like it.
March 24th, 2009 at 8:15 am
when he said ‘american education system’ there is no way he meant anything other than the education system in the united states. We may be part of the americas (North or South), but the school system in canada is canadian, the school system in chile is chilean, the system in mexico is mexican, etc.
the only time the appelation “american” would be used the way we are talking about it is referring to the system in the usa.
quit thinking you’re clever for avoiding a negative comment – accept a mistake made and don’t do it again.
March 25th, 2009 at 6:26 am
Ho, ho, lovely. The girls learnt a life’s lesson.
March 26th, 2009 at 12:33 am
Cartainly a good story but an old one.
March 26th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
nothing is new under the sun but every story has to be told over and over again for the millions of babies that are born everyday.
March 26th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Actually, some ten years ago we told our students in a south Texas middle school this same story, that our janitor cleaned the mirrow by dipping a mop in the toilets. I think it was apocryphal even then. Still, a great story.
March 26th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
“mirror”
March 26th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
That’s a great one!
I like it a lot!!
Way too funny!!!
March 26th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
O
March 26th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
O-BOY THAT SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
March 28th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
That’s a great. So its proved teachers are teachers and students are students
March 28th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
Haha.. where I come from, noone would have bothered cleaning it.
March 28th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
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March 28th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
…and that’s good lesson.
March 28th, 2009 at 11:32 pm
Ha ha… copying and pasting. I can see why this blog is so popular.
March 28th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
Brilliant!
March 29th, 2009 at 12:35 am
[citation needed] WHICH NEWS REPORT?????
March 29th, 2009 at 12:56 am
@MARK
DID YOU JUST FUCKING SAY COULD OF HAPPENED, YOU FUCKING BITCH!
DON’T YOU EVER FUCKING SAY THAT AGAIN. IT IS ‘COULD HAVE’. WHAT . THE . FUCK . IS . COULD . OF???
WHAT IS IT? IS THAT HOW YOU SAY IT???? IS THAT HOW YOU VERBALLY SPEAK IT MOTHERFUCKER????
March 29th, 2009 at 2:21 am
This is false: http://www.snopes.com/risque/juvenile/lipstick.asp. Also, I’m from victoria, and this has not been posted by any news sources; moreover, knowing many year-twelves in the private schools here, I would have likely heard of such an incident. Please cite the source which published this allegedly “newsworthy” gossip from my city.
March 29th, 2009 at 3:53 am
believe me, this stuff does happen. The schools have only so many custodians that do most of the work within the school, like bathrooms, taking care of the yard work, fixing things that need minor repairing, etc.
They take that brush from the toilet to the sink to the mirror, maybe not in that order, but yes, it is done. Not saying that all school’s do it, but I’ve seen the custodians do it that way. (no I’m not a custodian)
Hey it was said that, your desk top is 40 times germier than the toilet seat.
March 29th, 2009 at 5:02 am
Really old story. My aunt–a middle school counselor and VP since the 90s has been telling that story for years.
March 29th, 2009 at 5:22 am
Yeah, this might me just an urban legend, except that When I was in grade 7, this was a problem in my school in Ontario, Canada. Our teacher, an ex-hockey player (of course) told the story of the janitors cleaning the urinals in the boys room, then moving on the the girls’ mirrors using the same urinal rag.
True or not, it did stop the lipstick marks.
March 29th, 2009 at 6:15 am
@Mark March 20
The term is could have happened….not could of happened Geez what school did you attend ……
March 29th, 2009 at 8:44 am
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March 31st, 2009 at 5:27 am
@ CYRUS
WATCH YOUR FUCKING MOUTH . . JUST WATCH IT.
WHO THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? THE DEFENDER OF LINGUISTIC ACCURACIES???
FUCK YOURSELF WITH AS FUCKING RUSTY RAKE YOU FUCKING FUCK FACE ARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
March 31st, 2009 at 1:33 pm
Haha I love it!
April 4th, 2009 at 11:51 pm
I really hate when jokes start with anything about a “news report”. It ruins the whole thing. I heard this joke as a child many times. Seriously, if you just stop trying to say every joke is true, the jokes will be just as funny.
April 5th, 2009 at 11:33 am
“America” is also used as a generic term, world-wide, for the U.S. People don’t usually say “America” when they mean Canada or Mexico, etc. We’re called Americans all around the world and I think it’s pretty well established that if someone in England says Americans, they mean U.S. citizens and not Mexicans or Canadians.
April 8th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
That is soooo funny! that sounds just like my old skool, kids would go downstairs and put makup on, or text on their phones… Good times!
May 30th, 2009 at 12:17 am
I get it! All girls are trained to be whores! Funny!
July 13th, 2009 at 2:57 am
Reading this was the first thing that me literally laugh out loud today. Awesome!