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I'm not sure I get why the people making comments on that page think it's so funny, saying they are engineers and scientists etc so it makes them laugh, as if they're really intelligent - the jokes I mean. Unless I'm too stupid and there's an uber meaning I'm missing out on.
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Mal, I think it all started with someone mentioning that they are an engineer, and seemingly implying that it was [b:4c961814db]because [/b:4c961814db]they are an engineer that they could find it funny, and they all joined in saying "oh, yeah, good job I'm a genius rocket scientist or I wouldn't get these..." being sarcastic...
Now[b:4c961814db][i:4c961814db] I [/i:4c961814db][/b:4c961814db]couldn't possibly laugh at these, because they are exactly how my brain works when I have to deal with maths. Throughout my Computer Science degree, I had an average of 1.5/20 in Maths, it was one of the most important subjects. Good job it was good at all the rest, I still managed to acheive an over all average of 15.5/20 even with those crappy marks in maths... :cooler: |
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I'm the same mal....
they are funny but the comments are the funniest...oh I'd have to have a degree in this to be able to do it that just made me laugh considering I'm in one of the lowest maths classes in my school and understood most of it. |
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Good one - These sort of things have been going on since mathematics was invented, and any engineer/scientist or teacher has been there at some stage.
I was sent a jpeg of one student's solution around 2003 that shows why they should of took up art not calculus. The final answer was hilariously creative, and I had much sympathy with it. I'll dig around my hard drive - I know I kept a copy but I don't know how to put it up here. |
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Those were great, I loved the find the X question, I had a similar question on an exam today, I wish I'd have seen this before the exam
I've seen a few like that first hand, one person when asked to show their working out drew a little pickture of himseld in the exam sat at the desk a friend of mine was in a test when a friend of his wrote that nemises was an arch-enemy of spiderman in the comic dureing a science exam. I wrote a note to my RE examiner in GCSEs thanking them for takeing the time to mark my paper, but other than that I havn't done anything like that. |
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I too thought those answers weren't stupid, but creative. i mean, if you're going to drive the test against the next wall, you can at least get some fun out of the situation.
Thanks, for the link, I've spread it around in my family. |
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These are great
![]() Remind me of a guy I know who decided to flunk his religion, and answered Questions hilariously, eg "What are two questions that human beings try to answer over the course of their life?" Ans"Why are we here and how do they get the figs in the fig rolls" |
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My brother took his 11th grade IQ test in a rather unique way, he just filled in the little ovals in whatever patterns appealed to him. He later told me he didn't think the school had any business knowing how intelligient he was. The guidance councilor drove all the way out to our farm to talk to my folks about it. He told mom no one in the history of the school had ever scored lower on that test. They knew he hadn't lost his head and they really didn't have any way of forcing him to retake the test. It is on his [i:903322db82] permanent record[/i:903322db82].
This was a kid that cut a railroad car of pulp timber all by himself and sold it and had it transported it to the railstation in town when he was 14 because he was aware the railroad was abandoning the line going through our town and he wanted to be able to say that he had cut a car load of pulp. I can't say he is completely intelligient because I'm his big sister and he still drives me nuts sometimes after almost 42 years, but in some ways I think he's the smartest one of the family. ( ' ,') "don't eat green potatoes" (> >) Last words of Mrs. Bertha Sperling @( )_ )_ |
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