Grade 8 Exam

[MountainMan]

Well, a few things we've learned since then is that if more people fail to answer more questions correctly, we must be making the questions too hard. We also make it easier to pass by lowering the bar and requiring fewer correct answers to pass, besides, we also find that it is too traumatic for these young minds to stress out at the thought of passing of failing, so we can stop using red pencils to point out the error of their ways and we can just eliminate that threshold all together. If we grade them on how fast they can send a text message, or attempting to read one while driving at 60 miles an hour, I'm sure there'd be 95% passing that test.

Ahhh, one more "bit of evidence" that evolution does exist, and that the species "Homo Sapiens" is going extinct, and being replaced by the species "Homo Stupidicus". While genetic testing hasn't yet been done, it's quite possible that Congressman Weiner is a member of this new species hock:
6 What is punctuation?
" Damn the torpedoes !, Full speed ahead ! " ~~Adm. David Glasgow Farragut

However , .......... Some historians believe that he was misquoted, and what he actually said was,
" Damn !! The torpedoes !!! Full speed ahead !!!!
It's all in the punctuation --- then, of course, there's Victor Borge's "punctuation" ( if you're old enough to remember that )

"Thhhpppppt! Click! Gulp! Quork! Step on it!"