Re: Stupid Professor Tricks

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From: l... Robert Lane A.
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 1990 16:56

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In article <21...@milton.acs.washington.edu> dig...@milton.acs.washington.edu (Chuck Bigham) writes:
   In article <1990Feb28.2...@athena.mit.edu> ers...@athena.mit.edu (Ellen R. Spertus) writes:
   >
   >My year was one of the first that most of the papers were word
   >processed.  The teacher told us the department was considering making
   >students turn in the floppy disk they did their work on.  He couldn't
   >understand why the students thought this idea was funny.

   Okay, I'll bite.

   Why was this funny?

It's funny if they wanted the floppy disks to keep the students from
sharing their work with each other or with students who take the class
in the future.  Can you say *backup*?  I knew you could. :-)

Come to think of it, it's downright *hilarious* if they expected to
actually _read_ all of the floppies they would get!

Lane
l...@usl.edu

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