[lit-ideas] Re: The Meaning of Life: Isn't there a wikipedia article on that?
- From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:26:10 -0700
Julie Krueger wrote:
[a lot of weird questions]
Would you pass? Are you smarter than an eighth grader?
Pass? Smarter than? If you'll permit me to observe, this seems to imply
that if one passes one is smarter than an eighth grader, which seems to
be based on the assumption that no eighth graders will pass (or that if
any eighth grader does pass, he or she is as smart as a fish but no
smarter).
(It also seems to imply that there are 'right' responses to these ditzy
'questions,' although almost every one of them could be construed in
god-knows-how-many different ways, as Donal has already opined.)
Robert Paul,
relatively untested
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