My professor gave us a link to an article on academic honesty and suggested we read it. When we came to class today, he asked those who had read it what their thoughts were. The first girl who raised her hand said:
“The one thing that striked me was the whole cheating thing, that if you cheat in college, you’ll never get nowhere in life.”
I don’t think not cheating is going to make any difference for you in that department, honey.
Evidently, there may have been a bear. Matt has provided some possible proof. It also may have pierced the boat. This issue could not be solved with a paddle. That is, of course, unless it was an exactly paddle sized hole. But that chance is exactly one in a million…
Something struck me last night about the phrase “up a creek without a paddle,” and strangely enough, one of my professors used it today in class.
The phrase is used as a euphemism for a situation that is less than satisfactory. In other words, you’re fucked. The context is established as negative. Therefore “up a creek” implies being at a location at which you would rather not be, and would therefore imply, logically speaking, that you would rather be down a creek.
Water flows downstream.Something struck me last night about the phrase “up a creek without a paddle,” and strangely enough, one of my professors used it today in class.
The phrase is used as a euphemism for a situation that is less than satisfactory. In other words, you’re fucked. The context is established as negative. Therefore “up a creek” implies being at a location at which you would rather not be, and would therefore imply, logically speaking, that you would rather be down a creek.
Water flows downstream.
Getting from up a creek to down a creek would therefore involve sitting back and letting gravity and nature do the work. The only reason you might need a paddle is for steering purposes, I suppose, in the event that it was a rocky creek or a winding creek. But then there is the fact that “creek” is defined as a “stream, brook or minor tributary to a river,” and while such a thing could be rocky or winding, it does not bring to mind the likelihood of being very fast flowing. You could simply reach out and push yourself away from a protruding rock or off of a sandy bank on the edge of a curve.
I would suppose, then, that I would rather enjoy being up a creek without a paddle. It would allow for some relaxation and time to enjoy the scenery around me, rather than getting a rather extensive workout paddling up the creek against the current.
Though, if you weren’t paying attention, you might be lost in watching nature and not realise that you’ve come upon a waterfall. But to have come upon a waterfall, you would still have had to have floated from up the creek to down the creek, and once again… It is not the up the creek part in which the lack of the paddle was a problem. It’s the down the creek part where you’ll likely think that the decision not to turn around when you left home for the the trip in the first place, remembered that you forgot to pack the paddle, and figured, Hey. Who needs a paddle.
Getting from up a creek to down a creek would therefore involve sitting back and letting gravity and nature do the work. The only reason you might need a paddle is for steering purposes, I suppose, in the event that it was a rocky creek or a winding creek. But then there is the fact that “creek” is defined as a “stream, brook or minor tributary to a river,” and while such a thing could be rocky or winding, it does not bring to mind the likelihood of being very fast flowing. You could simply reach out and push yourself away from a protruding rock or off of a sandy bank on the edge of a curve.
I would suppose, then, that I would rather enjoy being up a creek without a paddle. It would allow for some relaxation and time to enjoy the scenery around me, rather than getting a rather extensive workout paddling up the creek against the current.
Though, if you weren’t paying attention, you might be lost in watching nature and not realise that you’ve come upon a waterfall. But to have come upon a waterfall, you would still have had to have floated from up the creek to down the creek, and once again… It is not the up the creek part in which the lack of the paddle was a problem. It’s the down the creek part where you’ll likely think that the decision not to turn around when you left home for the the trip in the first place, remembered that you forgot to pack the paddle, and figured, Hey. Who needs a paddle.
Welcome zee ubuntu… Only in linux… Come to linux, we’ve got ubuntu…
Welcome zee coders… Only for linux… Got ubuntu and coders, only in linux…
Forget windows!
Linux, oh linux… Where the gnome is, and the packages!
Linux, linux, linux!
Linux, come to linux, can ya believe it?
Breezy badgers, breezy badgers, breezy badgers, breezy badgers, breezy badgers, breezy badgers…
Hoary, hoary!
Breezy badgers, breezy badgers, breezy badgers, breezy badgers, breezy badgers, breezy badgers…
Hoary, hoary!
Breezy badgers, breezy badgers, breezy badgers, breezy badgers, breezy badgers, breezy badgers…
Gnooooome, gnooome… oh, it’s gnooome…
Everyone loves ubuntu linux, ‘cus the things that it does are ever so clever!
Look at it now, disappearing gentoo! Where is gentoo? Not compiling right now!
Taking a bow, it’s ubuntu linux, naked Debian for the masses, it is!
Look at it there with it’s easy to use synaptic.
And with a little click…
Ya ya, ya! It’s updated!
Ya ya, ya! It’s updated!
Updated from it’s endless repository…
What can you find… In the universe dimensions…
Packages, packages, packages, packages…
Everyone loves Magical Trevor!
It’s a jungle out there. Let Ubuntu Linux be your tour guide for the Holy crap, Linux! Tours. Just keep all desktops, laptops and PDAs inside the Open Source until the proprietary software has come to a complete stop. Thank you for choosing linux, and have a great day!
The local news anchor is talking about an execution style hit, a group of kids trapped under ground, and some guy doing something terrible to his infant child, and she says it all with a generally superficial contentedness and ends it with a smile.
Okay….
Sure she’s a news anchor, but come on. The press sensationlises everything else, but they give you a smile when talking about murder, fatal accidents and serious child abuse.
“TONIGHT AT 11: THE PRESIDENT KISSED SOMEONE, OMG THE HUMANITY!!!” *scream*
“Tonight at 11: A man was killed execution style, a group of kids died, and a man killed his baby.” *smile*
