Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Both of these are essentially variations on the urban legend that first cropped up in the late 60s - 1970 - around the time of student strikes, cancelled finals, etc. A philosophy professor at Brown, as I recall the story, walked into class on the morning of the finals and simply wrote, "Why?" on the black board. A student wrote "Why not?" and got an A.....riiiiiight....:-) B. D. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Gregory Goh Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 10:40 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: [Leica] Too Serious This story reminds me of the one I heard about the professor asking the students a question "What is courage?" The one who got an "A" was the one who wrote 2 words and handed his answer in. His answer was "This is" Greg >From: Photo Phreak <leicam4pro@yahoo.com> >Subject: [Leica] too serious again >Message-ID: <20020419014533.12280.qmail@web21301.mail.yahoo.com> >References: > >An eccentric philosophy professor gave a one question final >exam after a semester dealing with a broad array of >topics. > >The class was already seated and ready to go when the >professor picked up his chair, plopped it on his desk and wrote on >the board: "Using everything we have learned this semester, >prove that this chair does not exist." > >Fingers flew, erasers erased, notebooks were filled in >furious fashion. Some students wrote over 30 pages in one hour >attempting to refute the existence of the chair. One member >of the class however, was up and finished in less than a >minute. > >Weeks later when the grades were posted, the rest of the >group wondered how he could have gotten an A when he had barely >written anything at all. His answer consisted of two words: > >"What chair?" _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html