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College student explains hell

post #1 of 19
3/9/10 at 6:45am
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post #2 of 19
3/9/10 at 7:19am
There's nothing like a good old joke.
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post #3 of 19
3/9/10 at 7:47am
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post #4 of 19
3/9/10 at 9:07am
R.f.o.l.! One of the best jokes I read in a long time...
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post #5 of 19
3/9/10 at 9:23am
I'll scan a really university chemistry question .
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post #6 of 19
3/9/10 at 9:39am
awesome
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post #7 of 19
3/9/10 at 9:42am
It's a classic.
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post #8 of 19
3/9/10 at 11:25am
Wonder how many bonus points he got.
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post #9 of 19
3/9/10 at 11:55am
Hahaha That's some great chemistry there. Definitely deserves a Nomination for a Nobel Prize.
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post #10 of 19
3/9/10 at 12:38pm
LOL! Awesome.
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post #11 of 19
3/9/10 at 4:22pm
Quite old but it still makes me smile every time I read it.
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post #12 of 19
3/9/10 at 4:26pm
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Originally Posted by EnOYiN View Post
Quite old but it still makes me smile every time I read it.
Agree
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post #13 of 19
3/9/10 at 4:27pm
i've never seen this before but its hilarious. did not see that coming
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post #14 of 19
3/9/10 at 4:41pm
"Hell" is also a verb. In the old days, if you did not have a root cellar, fruits & veggies could be stored in a trench. Say you wanted to store a potato crop, you would dig a trench, line the bottom with straw, lay down a layer of spuds, put more straw on top of that, and cover it with dirt. As long as the spuds were below the frost line, you could dig down and get some for a meal. It was called helling the potatoes. I don't know if the verb form is exothermic or endothermic...
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post #15 of 19
3/9/10 at 5:46pm
It reminds me of a story I heard Clement Freud tell on the radio a while ago. I am paraphrasing, but here goes.

A gentleman in his final year of a physics degree was appealing about the results of an exam, where he was asked a question, answered correctly, and was given no correct.

The question had been 'how would you gauge the height of a skyscraper, using a barometer?". He had replied that he would take the barometer to the top of the skyscraper, tie to it a piece of string, and lower it to the bottom. When the barometer touched the ground he would measure the string, (adding to it the length of the barometer) and get his answer.

He appealed against the decision to give him no credit for this answer, and so he was given a viva exam. When he appeared a second time, he said "It's not that simple. I could go to the top of the skyscraper, and drop the barometer, and with an accurate stopwatch, time how long it took to fall. Or... I could take the baromentric pressure at the base of the building, and again at the top, and do some calculation. On consideration, however, what I think I would do is go to the building manager, and say 'If you tell me the height of this building, I will give you this barometer!' "

I paraphrase, and don't have his comic timing, but it's another good one.
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