I have five or six days coming up without really clear plans and was thinking about some of the really great lessons from school. Or useful stuff that doesn't really fit anywhere else. For example I learned in a college journalism class that US currency is exactly 6" in length. With the tolerances that it is manufactured under, it is more accurate at 6" than any cheap ruler you may buy at the store. Of course it isn't really practicle for measuing say 2 5/8ths but for whole numbers, it works very well.

 

Anyone else remember something they learned in school that was like that?

My microeconomics professor taught us the Rule of Diminishing Marginal Returns through drinking.

I have a structural geology textbook that illustrates a trace element substitution by having a cow in a parking space.

 

I also once had a physics textbook that included the phrase "The largest escalator in the free world".

I have five or six days coming up without really clear plans and was thinking about some of the really great lessons from school. Or useful stuff that doesn't really fit anywhere else. For example I learned in a college journalism class that US currency is exactly 6" in length. With the tolerances that it is manufactured under, it is more accurate at 6" than any cheap ruler you may buy at the store. Of course it isn't really practicle for measuing say 2 5/8ths but for whole numbers, it works very well.

 

Anyone else remember something they learned in school that was like that?

 

That's a really handy engineer/technician's trick in the field.

That's a really handy engineer/technician's trick in the field.

 

 

I may have used that more than anything else I have learned in school.

My English teacher wrote this on the board one day and told somebody to try and read it. I have no idea what the actual lesson we were supposed learn was but I've always remembered it for some reason.

 

mr ducks

mr not ducks

osmr

cdedbd wings?

lib

mr ducks

 

Translation:

 

It's supposed to be 2 rednecks talking to each other.

 

em are ducks

em are not ducks

oh (ye)s em are

see dee iddy biddy wings?

well I be

em are ducks

My English teacher wrote this on the board one day and told somebody to try and read it. I have no idea what the actual lesson we were supposed learn was but I've always remembered it for some reason.

 

mr ducks

mr not ducks

osmr

cdedbd wings?

lib

mr ducks

 

Translation:

 

It's supposed to be 2 rednecks talking to each other.

 

em are ducks

em are not ducks

oh (ye)s em are

see dee iddy biddy wings?

well I be

em are ducks

 

das rayces!