[Hostage]

THIS STUDENT RECEIVED AN A+.

[Keith in Iowa]

This has been around in various forms for years...and I still get a chuckle out of it. :)

[Jet Jaguar]

That’s pretty good!

[aft_lizard]

http://www.snopes.com/college/exam/hell.asp

[Keith in Iowa]

Then there's the mathmatical proof that women are evil:

Ok ...ok

Everyone knows Women are Time and Money

Women = Time x Money

Everyone knows Time IS Money

Time = Money

Therefore:
Women = Money x Money (or money squared)

Everyone knows Money is the root of all evil

Money = Square root of all Evil = (all Evil)^0.5

Therefore:
Women = The square of the square root of {all evil}

Women = ((all Evil)^0.5)2

The square of the square root of anything is simply equal to itself....

Therefore Women = all Evil

Mathematical proof....

[Publius]

Many operas end like Tosca with the sudden descent of the hero to some nether realm. Don Giovanni, however, (as in Zeffirelli's production for Covent Garden), tends simply to disappear amid whirling clouds of stage smoke as the chorus of off-stage demons promise him worse torments below. In Vienna, however, Cesare Siepi ended his admirable interpretation standing on a stagelift which, as so often happens, stuck halfway down, leaving his head and shoulders visible to the audience but not the rest of him. The technicians' efforts merely revealed the operation of one of the great laws governing opera disasters -- that the most that can be hoped for is to restore the status quo ante -- that is, they merely brought him back up again. Siepi then amazed the public by refusing simply to walk off and with courageous professionalism challenged the lift operator to a second attempt. Of course exactly the same thing happened, and amid the shocked silence of the Staatsoper a single voice rang out -- it is said in Italian -- "Oh my God, how wonderful -- hell is full."
-- from Great Operatic Disasters, by Hugh Vickers

[Hostage]

Actually I wouldn’t have given an A+ to this student because he failed to relate his conclusion to Gore’s Global Warming.

[Mr. Bird]

While a fun story, I think it’s been attributed to a gazillion students at various schools. Nothing like my friend’s Econ final on which he tried to fake his way through “coupon slippage”.

[mad_as_he$$]

Urban legend.

[Radix]

The title of this thread is actually older than the material in it.

Fun stuff the first time around.

I didn’t read it all here, but at a glance, it looks different from the article I read a while back, which was beyond funny, and brilliant.

If a student received an A+ for this, plagiarism, then the grading Professor should be tarred and feathered, unless it was the original.

My memory is not good enough to be sure that this is the same material.

[metmom]

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THIS STUDENT RECEIVED AN A+.

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[Dumpster Baby]

[Professional Engineer]

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