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Post by divasahm on Apr 28, 2010 13:19:41 GMT -4
I know I've shared this story before, but... One of my best friends was in the business school at UT--very competitive and cut-throat. She hated it--her dad wanted her to get a business degree so she could handle the family business, but she really wanted to transfer to the communications school. They made a deal--if she could maintain a B average for her junior year in the business school, he would not only support her transfer to the comm school, but he'd pay for any additional hours she'd need to complete that degree. So. She's taking the final in her toughest class, and she desperately needs an A to make the B average overall that she promised her dad. She does her best, but doesn't feel too confident. She gets to the last page of the test, which reads: EXTRA CREDIT - 10 POINTS (or, an entire letter grade) Question: What is the airspeed velocity of a laden sparrow? The professor was the faculty sponsor of The Royal Order of Pythons, the campus fan club. Out of the 300+ students who took that exam, exactly 2 got the correct answer, and my friend was one of them. Two years later she received her BS in radio/television/film and is now happily running the family business. Anyone know the answer?  |
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Post by Ripley on Apr 28, 2010 13:33:47 GMT -4
Which? An African swallow or a European swallow?
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Post by kateln on Apr 28, 2010 13:45:22 GMT -4
Dammit, Ripley got it first.
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Post by FotoStoreSheila on Apr 28, 2010 15:07:15 GMT -4
The most-quoted movie in our house, though, is The Money Pit. "Oh, thank God it's you, honey ... an hour ago I thought the Care Bears were here." Hubby likes to insult people by calling them a duck fart. I've been quoting this movie for 20 years! If I've been out in the hot sun all day, or even if I'm really hungry, I will say that I'm seeing 'Care Bears'. Only my mom and sister know this is code for delirium and/or exhaustion. Whenever my sister and I are having cocktails at an inappropriate hour (well before 5 pm), we'll say "Here it is nearly _ o'clock, you must be parched". And I say "Don't make it worse by lying!" at least twice a day. |
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Post by Lisa Miller on Apr 28, 2010 17:12:25 GMT -4
The most-quoted movie in our house, though, is The Money Pit. "Oh, thank God it's you, honey ... an hour ago I thought the Care Bears were here." Hubby likes to insult people by calling them a duck fart. I've been quoting this movie for 20 years! If I've been out in the hot sun all day, or even if I'm really hungry, I will say that I'm seeing 'Care Bears'. Only my mom and sister know this is code for delirium and/or exhaustion. Whenever my sister and I are having cocktails at an inappropriate hour (well before 5 pm), we'll say "Here it is nearly _ o'clock, you must be parched". And I say "Don't make it worse by lying!" at least twice a day. I don't know how many times I've come home from work, knowing I've got a pile of laundry waiting for me or something needs to be fixed and said to myself, "Ahh. Home crap home." I love The Money Pit. |
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Post by e c0li on Apr 28, 2010 17:17:15 GMT -4
Whenever I don't understand a document I'm reading (which happens a lot) I say "what is this? A center for ANTS?!" ala Derek Zoolander.
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Post by Shalamar on Apr 28, 2010 20:52:39 GMT -4
The name "Tim" has been forever ruined, unless of course the guy introduces himself as "Some call me ... Tim".
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2010 21:06:16 GMT -4
Whenever I don't understand a document I'm reading (which happens a lot) I say "what is this? A center for ANTS?!" ala Derek Zoolander. ;D In our family it's a lot of "I think I'm getting the black lung, pa" whenever someone has a cough. |
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Post by Shanmac on Apr 28, 2010 21:34:41 GMT -4
The most-quoted movie in our house, though, is The Money Pit. "Oh, thank God it's you, honey ... an hour ago I thought the Care Bears were here." Hubby likes to insult people by calling them a duck fart. I've been quoting this movie for 20 years! If I've been out in the hot sun all day, or even if I'm really hungry, I will say that I'm seeing 'Care Bears'. Only my mom and sister know this is code for delirium and/or exhaustion. Whenever my sister and I are having cocktails at an inappropriate hour (well before 5 pm), we'll say "Here it is nearly _ o'clock, you must be parched". And I say "Don't make it worse by lying!" at least twice a day. We also threaten each other by quoting the scene where Walter asks Benny for money: "I'll NOT LIKE YOU anymore!" We are fond, too, of yelling, "I want NOTHING blue! NOTHING!" when one of us get something wrong. I said the "you must be parched" quote to my uncle once when I was a kid (seriously, it was 11 a.m. and he was in the kitchen drinking whiskey!) and my mom was like,"You are not watching that movie anymore." I say this all the time, usually when I come home and see that hubby (who is wonderful, but a slob) has once again trashed a room I just cleaned. That movie is just loaded with fun, useful quotes. |
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Post by Lisa Miller on Apr 29, 2010 14:00:50 GMT -4
I live in hurricane central and we lost a bunch of trees in 2005 so this Money Pit quote got used A LOT:
"We have weak trees."
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