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grungy
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What is Risk?
« on: Dec 9th, 2006, 2:40am » |
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There was once a college that offered a class on probability applied to the real world.
The class was relatively easy, but there was a catch. There were no homework assignments or tests, but there was a final exam that would have only one question on it.
When everyone received the test it was a blank sheet of paper with a solitary question on it: "What is risk?"
Most students were able to pass, but only one student received 100% for the class! Even stranger was that he only wrote down one word!
What did he write?
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towr
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Re: What is Risk?
« Reply #1 on: Dec 9th, 2006, 5:23am » |
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This.
Or something to that effect (Some insult might have been thrown in for good measure).
I can never quite remember the punchline to these sort of things.
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TheNumberScott
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Re: What is Risk?
« Reply #2 on: Dec 9th, 2006, 10:53am » |
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I heard it with courage, instead of risk.
If I had been the teacher, I wouldn't have given him 100% though. I would have written "It sure is. F."
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cchris
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Re: What is Risk?
« Reply #3 on: Dec 9th, 2006, 11:06am » |
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Telling the teacher to go **** themselves.
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Re: What is Risk?
« Reply #4 on: Dec 9th, 2006, 7:38pm » |
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He signed by his name: Bush.
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Re: What is Risk?
« Reply #5 on: Dec 10th, 2006, 10:50am » |
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He wrote one.
Or he wrote me, because that is his name.
Or he wrote game. Do you like that game?
Or he wrote wife: quite a risk there.
Or he wrote risk, because risk equals risk. 
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Re: What is Risk?
« Reply #6 on: Dec 10th, 2006, 10:03pm » |
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Who doesn't like that game, Iceman?
And he could also have put normal things that aren't that big of a risk yet still minor risks such as: Driving, boxing/any other sport, snowboarding, or flying. In fact, even "existing" or "living" is risking death.
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"The fool doth think he is wise, yet the wise man knoweth himself to be a fool"
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grungy
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Re: What is Risk?
« Reply #7 on: Dec 12th, 2006, 12:58am » |
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Yeah, swearing or saying 'this' was the right answer... I like the swearing concept, but 'this' is the right answer.
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Re: What is Risk?
« Reply #8 on: Dec 13th, 2006, 11:17am » |
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I have another idea. I would say "game", because there is a board game called risk.
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(thinks to self) Time for my speech to these college kids.
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Re: What is Risk?
« Reply #9 on: Dec 13th, 2006, 4:05pm » |
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on Dec 10th, 2006, 10:50am, Iceman wrote:
Or he wrote game. Do you like that game?
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Thats a good one. 
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"The fool doth think he is wise, yet the wise man knoweth himself to be a fool"
"He who commands the past, commands the future. He who commands the future, commands the past."
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Re: What is Risk?
« Reply #10 on: Dec 14th, 2006, 8:09am » |
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Maybe he wrote the name of the secret love of his married teacher.
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