Posted on 08/25/2014 11:19:44 AM PDT by econjack
A difficult math question. One would hope that these two did not finish high school. If they did, public education needs to refund our money.
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How long to go 80 miles at 80MPH? Approximately 1 hour 15 minutes. 1 hour for the drive, and about 15 minutes to be issued a speeding ticket. <^..^>
I taught at a university and had two of the star basketball players in my Intro to Econ class. Two weeks before the final, they came in and asked for their copy of the final. I pointed out that the final wasn't for two more weeks, and they said they knew that but they always got a copy of the final "to study" before they took it. I said "Not in my class you don't." Two minutes later, a senior faculty member came in and said I should give it to them "because they are unprivileged". I told him that, if I did that, employers would quickly learn that graduates from &%^$ University don't know squat and what you are advocating would kill any chance of future graduates of getting a job with that company." He stomped off in a huff.
I never once again had a varsity athlete in any of my classes.
You cheated and got that off the Common Core Teachers’ manual, didn’t you?
"Here are some of the differences between the different types of blood vessels.
(1) Arteries have thicker walls than do veins.
(2) Veins have valves to prevent backflow of blood.
(3) Capillaries have walls only a cell layer thick to make it easy for things to diffuse.
OK, class. Which type of blood vessel would most likely be involved in gas exchange? Remember, that means diffusing through a membrane."
A bunch of blank stares.
The North Pole?
How fast is Train B going?
Actually, the crazy geniuses of BBC's "Top Gear" did that challenge with racing a dog-sled team (Hammond - passenger) against a Toyota Hilux/Tacoma driven by Clarkson & May (2007). The route was from Resolute, Nunavut, Canada to the GPS located Magnetic North Pole ( 78°35′7″N 104°11′9″W ) as determined in 1996. The Toyota (Sponsor) won by reaching within a mile of the destination.
In the post-broadcast reaction, "The BBC Trust" criticized Clarkson for drinking while driving (Gin & Tonics) and Greenpeace decried the episode as "highly irresponsible" and “Perhaps Clarkson and his cronies felt that climate change wasn’t destroying the Arctic quick enough, so they decided to do this."
Any show that draws Greenpeace ire is a good one in my books!
Just make sure you're doing it in the far right lane. No, even better would be to drive that slow on the shoulder.
Cap’s?
Where you can visit 12 timezones by doing an about-face.
My uncle was a traveling salesman with a route which included Houston, Dallas, OK City, and Galveston. That’s a lot of highway driving. I took the tour with him once as a teen-ager, and he would pass the time by reading highways signs, advertisements, and billboards out loud and backward. He’d been doing it for years and could read a newspaper backward as quickly as I could forward.
Coooooorrect! Go to the head of that class.
I just asked my mother, who is in the latter stages of Alzheimer’s, the question. She furrowed her brow and did take about five seconds to answer (she probably thought I was trying to trick her) but she gave one answer with no caveats ... “An hour.” lol
WOOPS ahaha there it IS!!
Was it an African or European sparrow going 80 miles per hour?
The Idiocracy is here, folks.
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