Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 1:02 am
don't worry be happy
Now for the most appropriate question for this thread, Kiri...
Why?
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Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2003 12:21 am
Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2003 1:43 am
Because.
Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2003 12:27 pm
Kiri wins.
Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2003 12:37 pm
How?
Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2003 1:50 pm
"There are three recognizable stages in sapient evolution, comprising the how, why and where questions. These can be easiest explained by illuminating questions: How do we digest food? Why does that work? and Where should we eat lunch?"
-highly paraphrased, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
-highly paraphrased, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 3:26 am
LOLxorex wrote:hey kiri, i have a why question too. why are my nipples a different color from the rest of my body? thanks!
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 2:11 pm
Why not?Stars wrote:Now for the most appropriate question for this thread, Kiri...
Why?
I dunno if this is true or not, but i heard of someone who took philosophy at University of Marlyand. One of his essays on the final exam was "Why?". All he wrote was why not and he got an A.
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 5:40 pm
I'm doing it because if I didn't, scav would.
Legend: A philosophy professor gives a final exam consisting entirely of a single word: "Why?" One student answers "Why not?" and receives an 'A'.
Variations:
* In a
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different version of this legend one student receives a top grade for responding simply "Because."
* Another version involves a philosophy instructor who, for a final examination, places a chair at the front of the room and challenges the class to prove it exists. One student receives an 'A' for writing "What chair?"
* Yet another similar legend has a professor ask his class to define 'courage.' The highest grade is awarded to the student who hands in his exam after writing nothing more than "This is." (In some variations of this version, the student who receives the top mark is the one who turns in a blank sheet of paper.)
Origins: On Why ask why? one level, this tale could be seen as a sort of braggadocio legend: a professor presents his class with an exceedingly difficult question to answer for their final exam, and the student who has the nerve to provide a clever, simple answer receives an easy 'A' on the test. (This point is made even more explicitly in the variant where the class is asked to define 'courage.') Another possible interpretation of this legend is as a wry commentary on the sciolism of academia. What is a more profound subject for the true scholar to contemplate, after all, than the basic question of meaning and existence? The student's flippant response (and his receiving a top mark for same) underscores the notion that a 'solid education' is sometimes an ornately decorated empty shell.
http://www.snopes.com/college/exam/oneword.asp
Legend: A philosophy professor gives a final exam consisting entirely of a single word: "Why?" One student answers "Why not?" and receives an 'A'.
Variations:
* In a
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different version of this legend one student receives a top grade for responding simply "Because."
* Another version involves a philosophy instructor who, for a final examination, places a chair at the front of the room and challenges the class to prove it exists. One student receives an 'A' for writing "What chair?"
* Yet another similar legend has a professor ask his class to define 'courage.' The highest grade is awarded to the student who hands in his exam after writing nothing more than "This is." (In some variations of this version, the student who receives the top mark is the one who turns in a blank sheet of paper.)
Origins: On Why ask why? one level, this tale could be seen as a sort of braggadocio legend: a professor presents his class with an exceedingly difficult question to answer for their final exam, and the student who has the nerve to provide a clever, simple answer receives an easy 'A' on the test. (This point is made even more explicitly in the variant where the class is asked to define 'courage.') Another possible interpretation of this legend is as a wry commentary on the sciolism of academia. What is a more profound subject for the true scholar to contemplate, after all, than the basic question of meaning and existence? The student's flippant response (and his receiving a top mark for same) underscores the notion that a 'solid education' is sometimes an ornately decorated empty shell.
http://www.snopes.com/college/exam/oneword.asp
Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2003 9:37 am
hence why i said i didn't know if it was true or not 
I had a feeling it was one of those urban legend thingies
I had a feeling it was one of those urban legend thingies
Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 9:23 am
Grass appears green because all of the colors in the rainbow are absorbed into the leaves of the grass except green.
The Sun, the Moon, the planets, and the stars all rise in the east and set in the west. And that's because Earth spins -- toward the east.
Probably because her husband is in Iraq and she is too busy taking care of the little one at the moment.
Because that's your personal prefrence.
Because it's fun and the people here rock.
....to all those other why's, just because.
The Sun, the Moon, the planets, and the stars all rise in the east and set in the west. And that's because Earth spins -- toward the east.
Probably because her husband is in Iraq and she is too busy taking care of the little one at the moment.
Because that's your personal prefrence.
Because it's fun and the people here rock.
....to all those other why's, just because.
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 10:17 am
because someone said so.
because they wanted to.
because they wanted to.
Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 8:00 pm
y 
Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 3:08 pm
because there's a little man under it doing a jig
Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 10:55 pm
That makes me feel really guilty about using Draino...