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Wednesday, April 25, 2007 - 2:13amSanction this postReply
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And he deserved that A+ That is freakin hilarious

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Wednesday, April 25, 2007 - 5:32amSanction this postReply
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LMAO!  That's too funny!  Wonder what Teresa has to say on the matter.  Thanks for the laugh on a Wednesday morning.

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Wednesday, April 25, 2007 - 7:21pmSanction this postReply
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This joke was old before the internet was invented.  Limiting ourselves to the internet:
Dr. Schambaugh, of the University of
Oklahoma School of Chemical Engineering,
Final Exam question for May of 1997.
A thermodynamics professor had written ...
http://www.ntgateway.com/weblog/BanyanSynop.pdf
A retiring professor of Physical Chemistry was setting his last exam for a graduate course in statistical thermodynamics. Being a bit bored, and having a wry sense of humor...
http://paul.merton.ox.ac.uk/science/thermodynamics.html
also
http://www.psc.edu/~deerfiel/Jokes/pchem.html
Ms. Teresa Banyan
www.team-ninja.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=9945
"Teresa" no last name and a chemistry mid-term at the University of Washington.
http://www.nuclearglory.com/php-bin/forums/view_topic.php?id=1039&forum_id=3

(No girl in this version...)
>Physics Story
>A true story.  A thermodynamics professor had written a take home exam
>for his graduate students.  It had one question:
http://gdl.msu.edu/~vanhoose/humor/0587.html
Michigan Science Teachers call her "Anna" and follow that freezing over thing but not so far as the other versions.
http://www.msta-mich.org/cgi-bin/newsletter_article.cgi?ArticleID=79

If you fell for this as being the verified answer to a real question on an actual  exam in recent history, then you are gullible.  It has all the trappings of an urban legend.
The leading Urban Legend website has a page about this exam question:
http://www.snopes.com/college/exam/hell.asp


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Wednesday, April 25, 2007 - 9:21pmSanction this postReply
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Marotta, who cares if it is new or old?  And it isn't about "gullible" because it doesn't matter if it is true or just a story.

People love it because it is a funny question, brilliantly answered in a humorous fashion.  It is a story with charm and warmth.  It is a small and delightful celebration of intelligence and creativity.   Why do you imagine you would want to puncture that?


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Thursday, April 26, 2007 - 8:58amSanction this postReply
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A REALLY SAD STORY

This really happened.  There were these two kids, a boy and girl and they fell in love, but killed themselves.  Here's what happened.  See, they came from different blocks in the same Central Park neighborhood and like the one block, it was all capitalists, like, you know, objectivists, mostly marketing people, sales managers, folks like that and the other was monarchists, old school New England types who were into real estate and banking and not actively, they just sat on their money while other people managed it for them.  Well, there had been some bloodletting on Wall Street, with real estate trusts taking a hit and then the technology stocks got beat up.  Well, the capitalists blamed the monarchists for hiding their losses with inflation, but the monarchists blamed the capitalists for upsetting society with globalism and it all played out in the stock market where guys were always biting their thumbs at each other and yelling things.  Well, this boy capitalist named Reiman and his frieds, they decided to crash a big party given by the monarchists.  It was a charity fundraiser for Oxfam and everyone was in disguise. and Reiman and Mercator and the guys were hanging out and that's when he saw Julianna, the prettiest girl in the monarchist block.  Well, he hung out afterwards and met her and they fell in love.  But they were underage.  So, they went to another state and got married.  But her Dad found out and tried to annul it.  So, she pretended to kill herself.  And they buried her.  Well, Raiman, like, he saw the funeral, you know, so he went to the cemetary and when he saw that it was true, he killed himself.  That's when Julianna woke up and found him dead.  She was like totally bummed out, you know, like who wouldn't be?  So, she killed herself, too, and it was really sad.  Well, the Merchant Prince, Bloomspan, said that all were punished, but he just meant that the kids were dead, no one like went to jail or anything.


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Monday, May 7, 2007 - 6:19pmSanction this postReply
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Steve, is being fooled into believing that this old chestnut is truly a student's response necessary to finding it amusing?

Ted

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