Saw this quote on Now That’s Nifty:
Whenever someone says “I’m not book smart, but I’m street smart,”
all I hear is “I’m not real smart, but I’m imaginary smart.”
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And then there’s this from the same site:
Researchers from the University of Toledo have reported the first ever case of someone using the internet while asleep
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She then composed and sent three emails. Each was in a random mix of upper and lower cases, not well formatted and written in strange language.
Are they sure she was really asleep? That sounds pretty normal for what you see on the Internet.
October 28th, 2009 - 6:37 am
I received an e-mail like that from a student. The time-stamp was 8:35 pm so I doubt the student in question was e-mailing while sleeping.
I really like that intelligence quotation. I remember being told by some of my less- highly-achieving peers that “Einstein was a C student,” meaning, I suppose, that they figured they were brilliant and I was just a dumb sheep who did what the teachers said. They didn’t realize, of course, that Einstein was a certified genius who just worked poorly in the school system, whereas they were merely slackers.
I also had my share of people claiming, “You people may be book smart, but you lack common sense.” Uh-huh. That must be why I’m not in debt and have never wrecked my car.
October 29th, 2009 - 12:51 pm
We book-smart men generally have common sense… right up until we come into contact with these strange alien lifeforms known as “women”.
I blame the hair rays.
October 31st, 2009 - 8:21 pm
Check for pawprints on the keyboard.