# "Isn't it pretty to think so?" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 6, 2021, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-it-pretty-to-think-so/939464 "2021-04-06T01:58:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2021, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-it-pretty-to-think-so/939464/21 "2021-04-14T04:11:55Z")
The lil’wrekker minored in theatre. I tried to tell her jobs were scarce. So she studied english/ lit Girl is a dynamo in Shakespeare. She’ll teach. Eventually. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2021, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-it-pretty-to-think-so/939464/22 "2021-04-14T04:27:45Z")
I still sometimes think about being a meteorologist. From about age 5 or 6, until age 17, I was set on being a television meteorologist. Then, at some point during my junior year of high school, I looked at the coursework requirements for a meteorology degree at the University of Wisconsin. “That is a helluva lot of high-level math and physics…maybe I’ll go into marketing.” 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2021, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-it-pretty-to-think-so/939464/23 "2021-04-14T05:14:59Z")
How much math does it take to say it’s storming? Look out the window. @kenobi_65 I would believe you as the weather guy. The one I watch is an alien come to suck out my brain out. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2021, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-it-pretty-to-think-so/939464/24 "2021-04-14T05:21:13Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > How much math does it take to say it’s storming? Not much math to say it; it takes the math (and physics) to understand the mathematical models that the Weather Service uses. I predicted a tornado when I was 8 years old. We lived about 30 miles west of Chicago; I was watching the noon news, and the weatherman said that the wind in downtown Chicago was coming out of the northeast. I went outside, and the wind in my neighborhood was coming out of the southwest. I announced to my mother that, due to this, there would be a tornado. Later that afternoon, there was, indeed, a tornado warning issued for a few miles away, for a small funnel cloud. My mom was impressed. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2021, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-it-pretty-to-think-so/939464/25 "2021-04-14T05:29:16Z")
Hey, I’m impressed. That is a cool thing to have happened. My Baby was 8mos old when a big tornado came thru here. She had cried all afternoon. The lil’wrekker still has ear problems when the weather is iffy. I tell her all the time she missed her calling. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2021, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-it-pretty-to-think-so/939464/26 "2021-04-14T21:07:39Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > The lil’wrekker minored in theatre. I tried to tell her jobs were scarce. So she studied english/ lit > Girl is a dynamo in Shakespeare. > She’ll teach. Eventually. Flashback to my college days: Both the Theatre and English Departments had classes in Shakespeare. The English Department’s approach toward Shakespeare was that it was _literature_ i.e. something to be read, whereas of course to the Theatre Department Shakespeare was something to be _performed_. Somehow I ended up taking both classes, and the English professor was very condescending whenever I dared to express an opinion that conflicted with his view of how Shakespeare should be interpreted. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-it-pretty-to-think-so/939464.md?page=1)