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Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform => The Troubled Teen Industry => Topic started by: Rachael on May 06, 2007, 11:31:49 PM

Title: Raps...
Post by: Rachael on May 06, 2007, 11:31:49 PM

What the hell does the word mean? The entire time I was in program no one could explain to me what it meant, and that annoyed me to no end.

Is it an acronym, abbreviation of something else?

Thoughts, anyone?



Rachael

Title: Raps...
Post by: irvbulldogs72 on May 06, 2007, 11:48:12 PM

******

Title: Raps...
Post by: psy on May 07, 2007, 02:00:37 AM

Dammit... I knew the answer to this question but I forgot...

Likewise, at Benchmark it was "groups" and "workshops"...  Much easier.  However, I interchange terminology when talking to ex-CEDU-ites...

Raps is the same term in both Straight Inc. and CEDU interestingly enough.  At Benchmark they used to call them "raps" but changed after nearby CEDU started to get a bad "rap"   8-)

Why does Carlbrook and Benchmark use much of the same terminology?
Straight and CEDU?

Answer:  It's a small world for program staff.

Title: Raps...
Post by: try another castle on May 07, 2007, 08:47:00 AM

I'm making a guess, here.

My guess is that the reason Mel called CEDU groups "raps" was because "rap" was a common term in the 60s that meant "talk". "Hey, man, what's up? Let's rap."

Title: Raps...
Post by: Rumpofsteelskin on May 07, 2007, 08:51:37 AM

Yo, somebody say rap?  8-)

Title: Raps...
Post by: 69 on May 07, 2007, 10:08:38 PM

Rap music has some good beat to it.

Title: Raps...
Post by: Antigen on May 08, 2007, 01:31:41 AM

Ok, kiddies, I'm really dating myself here. But Castle's right. Further, Rap is slang for rapport.

Title: Raps...
Post by: Rachael on May 08, 2007, 01:55:06 AM

huh....

well I guess I know why no one in my dear old program could have told me that....

rapport is entirely too intellectual a word - you'd have to be way in your head to even think it



Rachael

Title: Raps...
Post by: psy on May 08, 2007, 02:47:36 AM

Quote from: ""Antigen's Ghost""

Ok, kiddies, I'm really dating myself here. But Castle's right. Further, Rap is slang for rapport.

Oh you gotta be fucking kidding me.. Does everything in program have to do with hypnosis, cults, or flat out quackery.

Title: Raps...
Post by: try another castle on May 08, 2007, 02:51:59 AM

Quote from: ""Antigen's Ghost""

Ok, kiddies, I'm really dating myself here. But Castle's right. Further, Rap is slang for rapport.

Hell, I'm dating myself even though I wasn't even alive then.

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Oh you gotta be fucking kidding me.. Does everything in program have to do with hypnosis, cults, or flat out quackery.

And hippies.