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Pat_B
LOL... oh, yeah. I was forced to take a college class in the fall of 1971 where the topic was the "end of the world was coming due to global cooling by 1985." I argued with that professor sooo much, he told me he would give me a 4.0 grade if I would just stop attending the class.
PS: I was right... it never happened, and I saw him again in 1995 on an August afternoon when the bank thermometer said it was 98 degrees. I asked him how he was staying warm in his igloo every night, and he looked at me funny. I said, "Oh, the global cooling is killing me, I have enough firewood for two more nights, and after that, I would be out stalking other igloos for heat."
Oddly enough, he didn't find that funny.
I'm all for protecting the earth, but the catastrophic predictions are nothing but fear-mongering. I take keeping the Great Lakes as pristine as possible, and I was always cleaning up the trash idiots were dumping in the Hiawatha National Forest, but the earth will still be turning long after the Second Coming.
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BigV
on August 20, 2022 at 8:30 AM
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I passed freshman algebra with a "D" which my teacher said was
a gift to himself. He said he knew math bored me, that I would never get a passing grade if he made me take it again, and since he was the school's only math teacher, he decided to do us both a favor. 
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Pat_B
on August 20, 2022 at 7:50 AM
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Sea_Gypsy
on August 19, 2022 at 8:31 PM
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