[130] in Humor
HUMOR: bonkistry
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (abennett@MIT.EDU)
Wed Mar 9 15:10:27 1994
From: abennett@MIT.EDU
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 94 15:07:23 EST
This one has been around so long, I think it may be an Urban Legend, or a
Computer Legend, or whatever.
-Drew
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 1994 21:54:04 -0700
From: Espacionaute Spiff domaine! <matossian@aries.colorado.edu>
Forwarded By: Vernon Lee <vernon@zycad.com>
From: John Carter <bonehead>
I tell you -- I *live* to amuse you...
John
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Introductory Chemistry at Duke has been taught for about a zillion
years by Professor Bonk (really), and his course is semi-affectionately
known as "Bonkistry." He has been around forever, so I wouldn't put it
past him to come up with something like this. Anyway, one year there were
these two guys who were taking Chemistry and who did pretty well on all
of the quizzes and the midterms and labs, etc., such that going into the final
they had a solid A.
These two friends were so confident going into the final that the weekend
before finals week (even though the Chem final was on Monday), they decided
to go up to UVirginia and party with some friends up there. So they did this
and had a great time. However, with their hangovers and everything, they
overslept all day Sunday and didn't make it back to Duke until early monday
morning. Rather than taking the final then, what they did was to find
Professor Bonk after the final and explain to him why they missed the final.
They told him that they went up to UVa for the weekend, and had planned to
come back in time to study, but that they had a flat tire on the way back and
didn't have a spare and couldn't get help for a long time and so were late
getting back to campus. Bonk thought this over and then agreed that they
could make up the final on the following day. The two guys were elated and
relieved.
So, they studied that night and went in the next day at the time that Bonk had
told them. He placed them in separate rooms and handed each of them a test
booklet and told them to begin. They looked at the first problem, which was
something simple about molarity and solutions and was worth 5 points. "Cool"
they thought, "this is going to be easy." They did that problem and then
turned the page. They were unprepared, however, for what they saw on the next
page. It said:
(95 points) Which tire?
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