The questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XIII

[aimeeandbeatles]

Could be a reference to learning through experience rather than schooling (as in Clint Eastwood in that film where he says he was educated at 'Heartbreak Ridge', later revealed to be a place in Korea where he won a Medal of Hono(u)r) with regard to volcanoes?

Ohhh... I was dumb ... try googling it with quotation marks. Turns out it was a joke

 

[Flying Pig]

Ohhh... I was dumb ... try googling it with quotation marks. Turns out it was a joke

Window licker! That article also has references to 'university of please yourself'!

 

[Tee Kay]

Anyone here interested in restarting a CFC-based Model UN?

 

[civplayah]

I VMed Methos about restarting Model Parliament yesterday. We could do UN, too.

 

[Tee Kay]

If we do UN I'd like a significant number of participants. A model UN with, say, five people is no fun.

 

[Ajidica]

What exactly is the model UN?

 

[Tee Kay]

You research a country, then RP as a diplomat of that country at a mock United Nations.

 

[madviking]

MUN is a cult at my school...

 

[Ajidica]

Could be interesting. If you get enough people I'll give it a go. What is the general time commitment?

 

[W|M]

This is similar to a MUN: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=362995 I'd like to be in an OT one, though.

 

[Joecoolyo]

Hmm... could be fun.

I would join if it was started up

 

[civplayah]

I started a social group about it, in accordance with Methos' request. If we get enough interest, he said we can start it up again. http://forums.civfanatics.com/group.php?groupid=308

 

[Tekee]

Hey my little mangoes I got a question for y'all.
What was the dumbest course you ever seen/taken in University?
The dumbest I ever seen but didn't take was called "Witchcraft"

 

[civplayah]

Honestly, Witchcraft would have been a fun course to take.

 

[Tekee]

Honestly, Witchcraft would have been a fun course to take.

dude did they offer you witchcraft in your university? :O
Must be a popular course.

 

[cardgame]

A waste of money... but yeah, might be fun.

 

[Lord Baal]

"The History of Athens under Pericles."

Honestly, why would I take a 6-month course in Athenian history over a period of about 50 years, when all I really need to do is read Thucydides and Xenophon to get the same information? More, actually, considering Pericles died in the second year of the Pelopponessian War.

 

[Dachs]

Hopefully you won't get the same information as you would in Thukydides if your professor is any good, because Thukydides is about as reliable on Perikles as Shelby Foote is on Nathan Bedford Forrest or as Talleyrand is on himself in his memoirs.

 

[Lord Baal]

Hopefully you won't get the same information as you would in Thukydides if your professor is any good, because Thukydides is about as reliable on Perikles as Shelby Foote is on Nathan Bedford Forrest or as Talleyrand is on himself in his memoirs.

I found he reported Pericles' actions reliably, he just didn't have a clue about the effects of such actions. Namely, complete disaster, rather than the god-like awesomeness that Thucydides seemed to think would result from Pericles' actions.

 

[Arakhor]

Isn't it a bit snobby to spell Greek names with Ks rather than Cs? I think it's rather like pronouncing Anglicised Latin phrase in a Latinate fashion, rather than an English one.