Re: Things that make me go WTF?

On 13 Dec 2006 15:34:54 GMT, Paul Martin <pm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in <slrneo07cr.4b9.pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
In article <m10vn21n9v7e8rkthduoo6po308u0chu8s@xxxxxxx>,
Kevin wrote:

I couldn't hack the 1895 8th grade exam in Salinas, Kansas.
http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/saline/society/exam.html

I must be missing something about barber shops...

"8. Any teacher who smokes, uses liquor in any form, frequents pool or
public halls, or gets shaved in a barber shop will give good reason to
suspect his worth, intention, integrity and honesty."

The "shaved in a barber shop" clause could have a number of different
motivations. Barber shops may at the time and place have been places
in which idlers and neer-do-wells typically congregated; the school
board may have thought that a teacher who paid someone else to shave
him was wasteful of his money, and hence not of sufficiently good
moral quality; other (specify):______________________________________.

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I did write and prove correct a 20-line program in January, but I made
the mistake of testing it on our VAX and it had an error, which two
weeks of searching didn't uncover, so there went one publication out the
window. - David Gries, 1980
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