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(Message started by: grungy on Dec 9^th, 2006, 2:40am)

Title: What is Risk?
Post by grungy on Dec 9^th, 2006, 2:40am

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?

Title: Re: What is Risk?
Post by towr on Dec 9^th, 2006, 5:23am

[hide]This.[/hide]

Or something to that effect ([hide]Some insult might have been thrown in for good measure[/hide]).
I can never quite remember the punchline to these sort of things.

Title: Re: What is Risk?
Post by TheNumberScott on Dec 9^th, 2006, 10:53am

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."

Title: Re: What is Risk?
Post by cchris on Dec 9^th, 2006, 11:06am

[hide]Telling the teacher to go **** themselves.[/hide]

Title: Re: What is Risk?
Post by Grimbal on Dec 9^th, 2006, 7:38pm

He [hide] signed by his name: Bush.[/hide]

Title: Re: What is Risk?
Post by Iceman on Dec 10^th, 2006, 10:50am

He wrote [hide]one[/hide].

Or he wrote [hide]me[/hide], because that is his [hide]name[/hide].

Or he wrote [hide]game[/hide]. Do you like that [hide]game[/hide]?

Or he wrote [hide]wife[/hide]: quite a risk there.

Or he wrote [hide]risk[/hide], because [hide]risk equals risk[/hide]. 8)

Title: Re: What is Risk?
Post by flamingdragon on Dec 10^th, 2006, 10:03pm

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. 8)

Title: Re: What is Risk?
Post by grungy on Dec 12^th, 2006, 12:58am

Yeah, swearing or saying 'this' was the right answer... I like the swearing concept, but 'this' is the right answer.

Title: Re: What is Risk?
Post by hiyathere on Dec 13^th, 2006, 11:17am

I have another idea. I would say "game", because there is a board game called risk.

Title: Re: What is Risk?
Post by flamingdragon on Dec 13^th, 2006, 4:05pm

on 12/10/06 at 10:50:57, Iceman wrote:

Or he wrote [hide]game[/hide]. Do you like that [hide]game[/hide]?

Thats a good one. ::)

Title: Re: What is Risk?
Post by Grimbal on Dec 14^th, 2006, 8:09am

Maybe he wrote the name of the secret love of his married teacher.