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Ayan
22nd November 2004, 19:34
... or not.



This is a little something I found, when browsing random sites.
Yeah it's a long one, but imo worth reading.
Sort of hilarious - writings of highschool students.



The inhabitants of Egypt were called mummies. They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot. The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere, so certain areas of the dessert are cultivated by irritation.
The Egyptians built the Pyramids in the shape of a huge triangular cube. The Pramids are a range of mountains between France and Spain. The Bible is full of interesting caricatures. In the first book of the Bible, Guinesses, Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree. One of their children, Cain, asked "Am I my brother's son?" God asked Abraham to sacrifice Issac on Mount Montezuma. Jacob, son of Issac, stole his brother's birthmark. Jacob was a partiarch who brought up his twelve sons to be partiarchs, but they did not take to it. One of Jacob's sons, Joseph, gave refuse to the Israelites.
Pharaoh forced the Hebrew slaves to make bread without straw. Moses led them to the Red Sea, where they made unleavened bread, which is bread made without any ingredients. Afterwards, Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the ten commandments. David was a Hebrew king skilled at playing the liar. He fought with the Philatelists, a race of people who lived in Biblical times. Solomon, one of David's sons, had 500 wives and 500 porcupines.
Without the Greeks, we wouldn't have history. The Greeks invented three kinds of columns - Corinthian, Doric and Ironic. They also had myths. A myth is a female moth. One myth says that the mother of Achilles dipped him in the River Stynx until he became intolerable. Achilles appears in "The Illiad", by Homer. Homer also wrote the "Oddity", in which Penelope was the last hardship that Ulysses endured on his journey. Actually, Homer was not written by Homer but by another man of that name.
Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock.
In the Olympic Games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled the biscuits, and threw the java. The reward to the victor was a coral wreath. The government of Athen was democratic because the people took the law into their own hands.



There were no wars in Greece, as the mountains were so high that they couldn't climb over to see what their neighbors were doing. When they fought the Parisians, the Greeks were outnumbered because the Persians had more men. Eventually, the Romans conquered the Geeks. History call people Romans because they never stayed in one place for very long. At Roman banquets, the guests wore garlic in their hair. Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. The Ides of March killed him because they thought he was going to be made king. Nero was a cruel tyrany who would torture his poor subjects by playing the fiddle to them.
Then came the Middle Ages. King Alfred conquered the Dames, King Arthur lived in the Age of Shivery, King Harlod mustarded his troops before the Battle of Hastings, Joan of Arc was cannonized by George Bernard Shaw, and the victims of the Black Death grew boobs on their necks. Finally, the Magna Carta provided that no free man should be hanged twice for the same offense. In midevil times most of the people were alliterate. The greatest writer of the time was Chaucer, who wrote many poems and verse and also wrote literature. Another tale tells of William Tell, who shot an arrow through an apple while standing on his son's head.
The Renaissance was an age in which more individuals felt the value of their human being. Martin Luther was nailed to the church door at Wittenberg for selling papal indulgences. He died a horrible death, being excommunicated by a bull. It was the painter Donatello's interest in the female nude that made him the father of the Renaissance. It was an age of great inventions and discoveries.
Gutenberg invented the Bible. Sir Walter Raleigh is a historical figure because he invented cigarettes. Another important invention was the circulation of blood. Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100-foot clipper.




The government of England was a limited mockery. Henry VIII found walking difficult because he had an abbess on his knee. Queen Elizabeth was the "Virgin Queen." As a queen she was a success. When Elizabeth exposed herself before her troops, they all shouted "hurrah." Then her navy went out and defeated the Spanish Armadillo.
The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespear. Shakespear never made much money and is famous only because of his plays. He lived in Windsor with his merry wives, writing tragedies, comedies and errors. In one of Shakespear's famous plays, Hamlet rations out his situation by relieving himself in a long soliloquy. In another, Lady Macbeth tries to convince Macbeth to kill the King by attacking his manhood. Romeo and Juliet are an example of a heroic couplet. Writing at the same time as Shakespear was Miquel Cervantes. He wrote "Donkey Hote". The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote "Paradise Lost." Then his wife dies and he wrote "Paradise Regained."



During the Renaissance America began. Christopher Columbus was a great navigator who discovered America while cursing about the Atlantic. His ships were called the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Fe. Later the Pilgrims crossed the Ocean, and the was called the Pilgrim's Progress. When they landed at Plymouth Rock, they were greeted by Indians, who came down the hill rolling their was hoops before them. The Indian squabs carried porposies on their back. Many of the Indian heroes were killed, along with their cabooses, which proved very fatal to them. The winter of 1620 was a hard one for the settlers. Many people died and many babies were born. Captain John Smith was responsible for all this.
One of the causes of the Revolutionary Wars was the English put tacks in their tea. Also, the colonists would send their pacels through the post without stamps. During the War, Red Coats and Paul Revere was throwing balls over stone walls. The dogs were barking and the peacocks crowing. Finally, the colonists won the War and no longer had to pay for taxis.
Delegates from the original thirteen states formed the Contented Congress. Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the Declaration of Independence. Franklin had gone to Boston carrying all his clothes in his pocket and a loaf of bread under each arm. He invented electricity by rubbing cats backwards and declared "a horse divided against itself cannot stand." Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead. George Washington married Matha Curtis and in due time became the Father of Our Country. Them the Constitution of the United States was adopted to secure domestic hostility. Under the Constitution the people enjoyed the right to keep bare arms.



Abraham Lincoln became America's greatest Precedent. Lincoln's mother died in infancy, and he was born in a log cabin which he built with his own hands. When Lincoln was President, he wore only a tall silk hat. He said, "In onion there is strength." Abraham Lincoln write the Gettysburg address while traveling from Washington to Gettysburg on the back of an envelope. He also signed the Emasculation Proclamation, and the Fourteenth Amendment gave the ex- Negroes citizenship. But the Clue Clux Clan would torcher and lynch the ex- Negroes and other innocent victims. On the night of April 14, 1865, Lincoln went to the theater and got shot in his seat by one of the actors in a moving picture show. The believed assinator was John Wilkes Booth, a supposedly insane actor. This ruined Booth's career.



Meanwhile in Europe, the enlightenment was a reasonable time. Voltare invented electricity and also wrote a book called "Candy". Gravity was invented by Issac Walton. It is chiefly noticeable in the Autumn, when the apples are falling off the trees. l Bach was the most famous composer in the world, and so was Handel. Handel was half German, half Italian and half English. He was very large. Bach died from 1750 to the present. Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he wrote loud music. He took long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling for him. Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died for this.
France was in a very serious state. The French Revolution was accomplished before it happened. The Marseillaise was the theme song of the French Revolution, and it catapulted into Napoleon. During the Napoleonic Wars, the crowned heads of Europe were trembling in their shoes. Then the Spanish gorrilas came down from the hills and nipped at Napoleon's flanks. Napoleon became ill with bladder problems and was very tense and unrestrained. He wanted an heir to inheret his power, but since Josephine was a baroness, she couldn't bear him any children.
The sun never set on the British Empire because the British Empire is in the East and the sun sets in the West. Queen Victoria was the longest queen. She sat on a thorn for 63 years. Her reclining years and finally the end of her life were exemplatory of a great personality. Her death was the final event which ended her reign.
The nineteenth century was a time of many great inventions and thoughts. The invention of the steamboat caused a network of rivers to spring up. Cyrus McCormick invented the McCormick Raper, which did the work of a hundred men.
Samuel Morse invented a code for telepathy. Louis Pastuer discovered a cure for rabbis. Charles Darwin was a naturailst who wrote the "Organ of the Species".
Madman Curie discovered radium.
Karl Marx became one of the Marx Brothers.
The First World War, cause by the assignation of the Arch-Duck by a surf, ushered in a new error in the anals of human history.



And I'm petty sure this whole thing would be cooler, when devided into two sepperate posts.

Petsku1
22nd November 2004, 21:41
heh yea ive read a few of these before.

I would only like to see the teachers face expressions after these kinda answers. :mrgreen:

ArlettyFan
22nd November 2004, 22:15
haha these are funny. If you like this, you would like www.maddox.xmission.com he picks apart e-mails that are very poorly writen. :cheesy:

EDIT after some reading of these, i have to say, some of these look pretty fabricated. On some accounts, it looks like an outright attempt at humor, there is no way, in some cases, anyone can be that dumb.

AKMS
23rd November 2004, 02:15
Ayan,
thx for info.. smths I can translate this text and probably will die from exhaustion :mrgreen:

tern
23rd November 2004, 04:32
School doesn't neccessarily make you smarter, on my way past Student Union Building to class today people were wearing foil hats on their heads and holding up signs. I laughed at them.

IronRodent
23rd November 2004, 06:19
School does make you smarter. Kids who go to school are not necessarily smart.

Piece Of Paradise
23rd November 2004, 09:16
Schools can only help you to be smarter only if you want to.

ArlettyFan
23rd November 2004, 09:50
School doesn't neccessarily make you smarter, on my way past Student Union Building to class today people were wearing foil hats on their heads and holding up signs. I laughed at them.

Actually, it is a known fact that wearing foil on your head does make you a little smarter. It allows radiation to seep into your brain opening up hormones in it that make you knowledgable. Also, the signs are to reflect more sunlight onto each others' heads.

I would be standing out there with foil on my head all day if i got the chance.

tern
23rd November 2004, 10:23
Post a pic of you standing in public with foil hat on. Then I will respect you or something.

Piece Of Paradise
23rd November 2004, 12:01
Actually, it is a known fact that wearing foil on your head does make you a little smarter. It allows radiation to seep into your brain opening up hormones in it that make you knowledgable. Also, the signs are to reflect more sunlight onto each others' heads.

I would be standing out there with foil on my head all day if i got the chance.

You might as well go to the Chernobyl power plant as the radiation there is off the scale. That way you won't look stupid wearing foil on your head.

Orion
23rd November 2004, 16:56
School does make you smarter. Kids who go to school are not necessarily smart.

Yup, but that's why they are going there in the first place. The biggest problem with school imo, is that the classes are so damn boring. Why is it that students want to make schoool more exciting and not the teachers; highschool teachers are the worst. In university, it's different, you pay to listen to the lectures and hope that you can hear the prof or at least that his/her lectures are presented lively; that's my experience at UNI. I bet that if classes were more interesting, people would get higher grades.

AKMS
24th November 2004, 02:07
Aha! too many bodies sleeps on back rows )) smth I write and my head slowly slip down... down... boom! Where I am?? Little delay and go to sleep again... :mrgreen:
I think some fun actions are necessary... or maybe striptease show? :cheesy:

Orion
24th November 2004, 03:04
Now, you would make a great professor; at least more classes would be interesting.

AKMS
24th November 2004, 03:15
yeah... maybe when I finish university (IF :evil: ).. and you can join, of course :mrgreen:

Orion
24th November 2004, 04:27
I will be there for sure, count on it

loveherfromusa
24th November 2004, 12:19
Back to the first post - Most people who are the original posters say that these are composite answers. No one person authored any large part of it. I had a student answer that the 4 states of matter were: Oregon, Washington, California and Idaho. If someone got this information from several teachers or had many years experience, I believe that they could all be real.

There is a web site where professors share their experiences with cheaters. Some very funny attempts at cheating.

I once answered that the C.C.C. (Civilian Conservation Corps) was the Clobber Coolidge Commission. The teacher was too tired (or what?) and counted it as correct. That was intentional on my part just to see what would happen.

One of the problems is that there are people who think that New Mexico is a part of Mexico and that Canada is part of the US, etc., etc., etc.

Conclusion: I think most of the first post could be true answers - just from many people over a long period of time.

If you ever watch Jay Leno on the Tonight Show, he has a segment called "Jay Walking". He goes out on the streets and asks people questions that most should know. The results are funny and scary.

ArlettyFan
24th November 2004, 22:48
haha, canada part of U.S.? I can imagine this mistake happening, and it's funny to imagine. Makes sense, we always screw up other countries geographicallyl like that too.

I think in a previous post i forgot that Amsterdam was Holland...

AKMS
25th November 2004, 01:24
btw some people thinks that USA - it's whole world :lol:

loveherfromusa
25th November 2004, 14:23
btw some people thinks that USA - it's whole world :lol:

It isn't? :cry: :wink:

tern
25th November 2004, 21:31
btw some people thinks that USA - it's whole world :lol:

It isn't? :cry: :wink:

But Bush always told me...

AKMS
26th November 2004, 03:45
forget it, guys! USSR returned. We just joked. :mrgreen:

IronRodent
26th November 2004, 07:25
If you ever watch Jay Leno on the Tonight Show, he has a segment called "Jay Walking". He goes out on the streets and asks people questions that most should know. The results are funny and scary.

The more I watch that, the more I think that's it's set-up. At least some of it. Either those people are being paid to act stupid or they're willingly doing it on purpose just to get on TV. It's beyond incredible to see what seemingly normal people have no knowledge of, so much so that I have come to a conclusion that it mustn't be real. It cannot. What civilized person in the western world would NOT know where the Eiffel Tower is???

loveherfromusa
26th November 2004, 14:36
If you ever watch Jay Leno on the Tonight Show, he has a segment called "Jay Walking". He goes out on the streets and asks people questions that most should know. The results are funny and scary.

The more I watch that, the more I think that's it's set-up. At least some of it. Either those people are being paid to act stupid or they're willingly doing it on purpose just to get on TV. It's beyond incredible to see what seemingly normal people have no knowledge of, so much so that I have come to a conclusion that it mustn't be real. It cannot. What civilized person in the western world would NOT know where the Eiffel Tower is???

The Eiffel what?

I think the main setup is that of all the video he gets from the street, he only shows the worst. But you are right, if recent TV is any reflection on society, then anyone could be paid enough to act that stupid. If given enough money I might even be able to pretend that actors could become governors or presidents.

tern
28th November 2004, 04:42
If you ever watch Jay Leno on the Tonight Show, he has a segment called "Jay Walking". He goes out on the streets and asks people questions that most should know. The results are funny and scary.


Have you ever seen "street smarts" on TV? Even stupider people, and they use the same ones through the whole show so it's really pathetic.

Melodramatic
28th November 2004, 20:03
School does make you smarter. Kids who go to school are not necessarily smart.

Yeah, they're not necessarily smart... which reminds me of Ayan alot. Golden stars for bright boys & girls.

Ayan
28th November 2004, 20:04
School does make you smarter. Kids who go to school are not necessarily smart.

Yeah, they're not necessarily smart... which reminds me of Ayan alot.
Good job, you missed the point of the original quote. Please continue.

tern
28th November 2004, 23:46
Let's let Melo and Ayan start a thread where they can put each other down without the rest of us being misled into thinking it's a discussion thread. Just a thought to consider... Though I'd definitely appreciate it.

Piece Of Paradise
4th December 2004, 11:25
Let's let Melo and Ayan start a thread where they can put each other down without the rest of us being misled into thinking it's a discussion thread. Just a thought to consider... Though I'd definitely appreciate it.

Don't you think that it will aggravate the problem and not solve it? Or do you enjoy them doing it?

tern
4th December 2004, 22:57
I really don't like to see it. That way I'd be forewarned of having to read it. Though, I just hope they'd put their differences aside on here at least.

Piece Of Paradise
5th December 2004, 09:40
Forum rule no. 7:

7. Behavior Towards Others: Since we all come from different walks of life, it is inevitable that we all have different opinions and points of view. Here at Alizée-Forum, we want to honor that by giving everyone an equal opportunity to let themselves be heard without fear of being ridiculed or cast aside just because they are different. Every member has the right to be able to express his or her opinion, whether it is positive or negative, as long as it is posted in a respectful manner, without any intent to provoke, insult, or flame other members. Speak to others as you would wish they speak to you. If you disagree with another person’s opinion, explain, in a civil manner, why you disagree and don’t just resort to name-calling just because you think that person is wrong. And even though we all come here because we are, in some capacity, fans of Alizée, that does not necessarily mean we all share the same opinions about her. Be respectful of other people’s opinions and we’ll all be better off for it.

The suggestion you gave is not an option, I'm afraid. I guess they need to learn to accomodate each other's views before this feud stops.

Ayan
5th December 2004, 15:47
...as long as it is posted in a respectful manner, without any intent to provoke, insult, or flame other members.
Now isn't that a cool rule. I'm sure when people read Melo's first post in this thread, they all agree that it is my fault. It always is, right? And I'm sure calling me names and after my reply say that I'm a dictator is my fault too... bwhahaha.

Geez. This thread died a week ago, why was it even necessary to bump it. (nothing personal pop )

Piece Of Paradise
12th December 2004, 11:46
Well, unlike you I only have access to a computer on the weekends. If you have read my posts you would know that I only post on a Saturday or Sunday. During weekdays I don't have access to one and I don't want to say why. So it can't be helped.

Hope you don't take offence Ayan.

tern
12th December 2004, 13:27
[quote="pieceofparadise"]....I don't have access to one and I don't want to say why. So it can't be helped.quote]

Obviously it's classified, no matter.

loveherfromusa
13th December 2004, 00:42
Forum rule no. 7:

7. Behavior Towards Others: .... stops.

I do think, however, that people should be able to take some criticism and deal with it as part of a discussion and not a put down. If someone says I'm full of shit, I'd need to agree that my eyes are brown, but there would be nowhere to go in a discussion with that. If someone tells me why they think I'm fecally enhanced, I should be able to discuss it. Someone can be so sensitive that they miss out on good verbal sparring. If it's mean, at least keep it meaningful.

DavidAlizée
13th December 2004, 00:55
what is the problem here, i mean Ayan and melo are just having a dissagrement. Thats all. If we all thought the same way, what a boring world it would be. I havn excatly seen any serious attacking here. You should visit other forums to see how they go on at eachother. Let them dissagree, everyone has an opinion!

loveherfromusa
13th December 2004, 12:29
what is the problem here, i mean Ayan and melo are just having a dissagrement. Thats all. If we all thought the same way, what a boring world it would be. I havn excatly seen any serious attacking here. You should visit other forums to see how they go on at eachother. Let them dissagree, everyone has an opinion!

Yes, same as my point, but put a different (maybe better) way. The MF forum is much worse. I spent a few days on a Mandy Moore forum, but had to stop due to the useless crap they were throwing at each other. Let the conflicts happen - more interesting. The Jerry Springer type of idiocy, however, is junk.

DavidAlizée
13th December 2004, 12:37
Mandy moore omg, she was nice back when candy was released lol. Ive never been a member of the Mf forum, i visit it time to time to have a laugh at those nutters. If conflicts are not resolved, then it just goes to PM, msn, aim.. and are never resolved.

loveherfromusa
13th December 2004, 12:44
Mandy moore omg, she was nice back when candy was released lol. Ive never been a member of the Mf forum, i visit it time to time to have a laugh at those nutters. If conflicts are not resolved, then it just goes to PM, msn, aim.. and are never resolved.

If you think conflicts must be resolved, prepare yourself for a lifetime of disillusionment. Conflicts can and should stay unresolved as long as the attempts at resolution are interesting and meaningful. Many conflicts can be resolved because there is a correct answer that can be shared and its exposition will be accepted by all of the debaters.