Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/18

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Subject: [Leica] Too Serious
From: "Gregory Goh" <gregorygoh@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 02:40:04 +0000

This story reminds me of the one I heard about the professor asking the 
students a question "What is courage?"
The one who got an "A" was the one who wrote 2 words and handed his answer 
in.
His answer was "This is"

Greg

>From: Photo Phreak <leicam4pro@yahoo.com>
>Subject: [Leica] too serious again
>Message-ID: <20020419014533.12280.qmail@web21301.mail.yahoo.com>
>References:
>
>An eccentric philosophy professor gave a one question final
>exam after a semester dealing with a  broad array of
>topics.
>
>The class was already seated and ready to go when the
>professor picked up his chair, plopped it on his desk and wrote on
>the board: "Using everything we have learned this semester,
>prove that this chair does  not exist."
>
>Fingers flew, erasers erased, notebooks were filled in
>furious fashion. Some students wrote over 30 pages in one hour
>attempting to refute the existence of the chair. One member
>of the class however, was up and finished in less than a
>minute.
>
>Weeks later when the grades were posted, the rest of the
>group wondered how he could have gotten an A when he had barely
>written anything at all. His answer consisted of two words:
>
>"What chair?"



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