There’s dumb, and then there’s really dumb
Today Jim offered us an interlude of comments put on student’s report cards. It’s alleged these all genuinely have been written in New York, and all I can say is that they obviously get around, and have been around. My guess is some of them appeared on Zwingli’s report card from his theology teacher. However, they’re all good insults, and one of them was new to me.
They put me in mind of a small stocking-filler I got at Christmas, which, from a variety of quiz shows, gave a number of (genuine) examples of people and situations where Mr Brain had clearly left the building. Here are a few of my favourites.
Q. Name a film starring Bob Hoskins that is also the name of a famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci.
A. Who Framed Roger Rabbit?Q. Which ‘J’ is a major figure in the New Testament whose mother is often called the Blessed Virgin Mary?
A. Pass.Q. In clubs and societies, what word for a dark-coloured spherical object means to veto?
A. Pardon?
Q. (repeats) In clubs and societies, what word for a dark-coloured spherical object means to veto?
A. Custard.Q. What language was the Koran originally written in?
A. Er … Hebrew.
February 29th, 2008 at 12:02 am
It wasn’t Zwingli who got bad marks- but Aquinas. What a doofus that one was! No wonder his nickname was ‘The Ox”.
Besides- I think sometimes that you are the modern equivalent of the ‘Evil Priest’ famous from the DSS as the foe of the Righteous Teacher. And I only say this because you have said mean things about Z. You nasty Luthero-Aquinan-Barthian heretic.
February 29th, 2008 at 12:21 am
Put out the bait and watch the fish rise
February 29th, 2008 at 1:35 am
Well that’s really depraved… ;-P
March 4th, 2008 at 1:20 am
Not being a Hoskins fan, I couldn’t tell you the first answer. And the penultimate one, I don’t know either, because I don’t belong to any clubs or societies. I might be able to guess, but my answer would be just that: a guess.
The answers given are so obviously wrong that the student must have known they were wrong. S/he was just trying to give a deliberately wrong answer, to signal that s/he didn’t know (with hints of sarcasm), and to move on to some other question.
(”Who invented the Stations of the Cross?” -”Oh for the love of… okay, fine. Mel Gibson. Next question PLEASE”)
March 4th, 2008 at 11:27 am
These are TV quizzes for prizes, not exam questions.