"P.G.Hamer" wrote:
>
> dennis roberts wrote:
>
> > there just is no good way to argue against the original choice C ... IN THE
> > CONTEXT OF THE STEM OF THE QUESTION
>
> I am reminded of the joke article that contains many `politically incorrect'
> answers to the exam question "given a barometer how do you measure
> the height of a tower".
>
> A point I only realised recently is that many of these spoof answers could
> give a more accurate answer than the `textbook' method.
>
> Peter
>
> The first few that I remember.
>
> 1) Drop the barameter and time its fall.
>
> 2) Tie it to a long piece of string and use it as a lead-line, measuring the
> length of the string.
>
> 3) Tie it to a long piece of string and use it as a lead-line, measuring the
> period of the resultant pendulum.
My own favorite: tell the janitor that you will give him a barometer if
he can tell you how tall the building is.
I *presume* that "politically incorrect" above means "nonstandard", not
"involving stereotypes of gender, religion, ethnicity, sexual
orientation, or hair color". The idea of a whole subgenre of "Scottish
Barometer Jokes" or "Blonde Barometer Jokes" is just too mind-boggling.
<grin>
-Robert Dawson
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