[ale] Am I the only one that is laughing out load at thisquestion?

[Tom Freeman]

On 03/12/2008 11:09:52 AM, Jeff Lightner wrote:
> They did actually have physics and advanced math at my High School
> and
> the last one (my Senior year) actually had a "DP" department but I
> didn't have time for that class.
> 
> In college they taught me a sub-course on "computer augmented
> accounting" which essentially just taught me how to use a key punch
> machine - it was the last time I ever saw a key punch machine.
> 
> Instructors love it when you interact.   The TA I had at University
> of
> Houston once bemoaned the use of "so" as an adverb.  He said: "There
> is
> no value in saying a lake is 'so' deep when we can tell how deep it
> is."
> I responded: "Yes, but you have to use a SOnar to do it."

And you should be PUNished for that! 8-)

Thank you for the word play

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Jim
> Lynch
> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 10:05 AM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] Am I the only one that is laughing out load at
> thisquestion?
> 
> Mike Harrison wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> >
> >   
> > They are, but I was dealing with a science teacher that barely kept
> one 
> > chapter ahead in the book.. almost 30 years ago. I also was ranting
> then 
> > about Neutrinos and other stuff. It's really only so memorable to 
> me
> 
> > because it's when I really grok'd that most teachers merely 
> occupied
> 
> > space and time. I had some good teachers, but they were few.
> >   
> 
> I was taught in 4th grade that the phases of the moon were caused by
> the
> 
> shadow of the earth falling on the moon's face.  When I suggested she
> 
> look up the definition of an eclipse, she promptly sent me to the
> office
> 
> and I spent the day on a ladder in the hallway outside of the
> classroom 
> wearing a dunce cap.  Needless to say from that point on, my view of 
> education was a bit jaundiced.  Everyone wondered why I hated school
> so 
> much but when I'd try to tell them, they didn't seem to care or 
> didn't
> 
> believe me.
> 
> Jim.