Well, I work at a mail order office supply company…and we get some very stupid questions…these are two right off the top of my head…that we get a lot!!
“How many pens are in a dozen?”
&
“What is the difference between white & clear labels?”
-LiZa JaNe
We keep a list of “interesting” questions at our reference desk. Things I personally have been asked:
Do you have the book “Jane Eerie”?
I need information on the bionic plague.
Do you have a copy of “How to Kill a Mockingbird”?
Or, my favorite, until someone tops it. This was a high school/college age student.
Do you have five books on Shakespeare? I have to do a report on an American author.
Not knowing who Shakespeare was - that takes the bacon!
A few favorites of mine- absolutely true, I swear to God (and Satan)
How do I type a Roman numeral IV on the computer?
The Thinkpad? Is that the one that you “think” what you want it to do and it does it?
When I had my spinal surgery. (a complete spinal fusion- two 18 inch rods plus pins and hooks and all sorts of shit)
“Did it hurt?”
Hmmmmmmm…no- it was like a warm fuzzy holiday!
and, no lie…TODAY in class. A woman with a new laptop computer. I’m explaining how to save things to the hard drive. She says “won’t that make my computer a lot heavier to save all that stuff on it?”
Wow. That ain’t even the half of it.
Some mornings it just doesn’t seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.
http://www.angelfire.com/ny3/zettecity/index.html
Somebody told me this one a while back –
College biology class and the discussion was about the make-up of human ejaculate.
Young female: “If there are so many sugars in it, how come it tastes salty?”
on the teacher mistakes: i once won $10 from a teacher who insisted that pro tempore was right after VP in the order of succession. and i was right
I was walking down the street when something caught my eye… and dragged it 15 feet.–Emo Phillips
Someone said to me, “Make yourself a sandwich.” Well, if I could make myself a sandwich, I wouldn’t make myself a sandwich. I’d make myself a horny 18-year-old billionaire.
** WARNING !! URBAN LEGEND ALERT !!! **
ChiefScott,
You might wanna check out this link:
http://www.snopes.com/college/sex/salty.htm
Funny as it is, true it may be not.
Best Regards,
The O.S.D.U.L.P.
(Official Straight Dope Urban Legend Police - or Unofficial, for that matter: U.S.D.U.L.P.)
Presiding Officer:
Coldfire
“You know how complex women are”
My high school geography teacher didn’t know how to pronouce the Hawaiian island of Oahu.
I was in 9th grade and I’m pretty sure I knew more about geography than him.
Nothing better than a good public school education!
I figured as much ColdFire – hence my preface.
Gotta take a day or two to peruse Snopes, though.