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Article #2126Re: Haven't we had enough
From: Harrison Bergeron
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 00:00
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Mark Weinstock, woody@interactive.net
>You think this scares you? I was listening to Howard Stern this morning
Actually, from what little I've seen of Howard, I think his
point a lot of times is to point these sorts of unbelievable
realities out.
>(that's not hte part that should scare you <g>). They were "interviewing"
>someone at the Yankees parade. They asked her tough questions like...
>
>Where is Big Ben?
>Where is Munich?
>How many people in a quartet?
>How many inches in a yard?
>What day is added to the year in a leap year?
>Who fought in the Civil War?
>
>This is a native-born American citizen. She didn't know ANY of these. And
>she has the same voting power as the rest of us. This scares me.
>
I'm not that surprised, really. Try asking someone to
add 1/2 and 1/3. I mean people that made it out of
junior high.
>On the positive side, she did know the capital of New York, and how many
>sides in a rectangle.
>
That insprired me to come up with a voter test. So,
here's my suggestion for a question letting you into the
voting booth (actually 2 questions):
1) How many regular polyhedrons are there?
2) Name them.
--
semon@comp.tamu.edu |Consistency is the last refuge of
Steinberger: |the unimaginative.
State of the Instrument | --Oscar Wilde
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10e1e4,e4506ffe12f9682a X-Google-Attributes: gid10e1e4,public X-Google-Thread: 115d61,e4506ffe12f9682a X-Google-Attributes: gid115d61,public X-Google-Thread: f6e0e,e4506ffe12f9682a X-Google-Attributes: gidf6e0e,public X-Google-Thread: 105e42,e4506ffe12f9682a X-Google-Attributes: gid105e42,public X-Google-Thread: f7d58,e4506ffe12f9682a X-Google-Attributes: gidf7d58,public X-Google-Thread: 100eae,e4506ffe12f9682a X-Google-Attributes: gid100eae,public X-Google-Thread: 1083f1,e4506ffe12f9682a X-Google-Attributes: gid1083f1,public X-Google-Thread: fab07,e4506ffe12f9682a X-Google-Attributes: gidfab07,public From: root@davids.psyberlink.net (Harrison Bergeron) Subject: Re: Haven't we had enough Date: 1996/11/05 Message-ID: <slrn57urp3.1rg.root@davids.psyberlink.net> X-Deja-AN: 194635663 references: <54eqfm$332@news.internetmci.com> <326c2602.75398733@news.edge.net> <32752b79.3566390@news.xroads.com> <54ltas$7ie@News.IDT.NET> <3276383C.31AE@shell.liberty.com> <3276BEE7.2A2A@conknet.com> <5580t5$2boa$1@news-s01.ca.us.ibm.net> <3277CA41.3E74@agcs.com> <3277D62A.48BC@agcs.com> <3277DD88.48AF@aud.alcatel.com> <3278B28F.41DD@oxy.com> <327B694D.3A0C@tulsa.com> <327E1E62.3B43@agcs.com> <tq1fyI5Jo2DR092yn@interactive.net> organization: hexagonal closest packing reply-to: semon@comp.tamu.edu newsgroups: ak.general,alabama.general,aol.neighborhood.az.phoenix.general,aol.neighborhood.il.chicago.general,aol.neighborhood.in.indianapolis.general,aol.neighborhood.ny.general,aol.neighborhood.ny.new-york.general,atl.general,austin.general,az.general,ba.general,ca.general,co.cos.general,co.fort-collins.general,co.general,compuserve.general,dc.general,delaware.general,dfw.general,fl.general,houston.general,il.general,kc.general,ky.general,la.general,lex.general,md.general,memphis.general,miami.general,m