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- From: cougar@acm.rpi.edu (Erik Collin)
- Subject: Confuse-a-Prof
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 01:16:49 GMT
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- One day I arrived early for chemistry class. I hid all the erasers except
- one in to which a stuck a straight pin. I tied a thin fishing line to the
- pin and put the eraser at one end of the tray under the blackboard and ran
- the fishing line down the length of the tray, up to the ceiling and over
- to my seat. When class began I gave a few tugs on the line and the eraser
- started its travels across the tray. Of course everyone but the prof
- noticed and there were giggles from around the class. By the time the
- Prof was ready to erase something the eraser had moved about three feet
- from its original position and everyone was waiting for the poor Prof to
- make a grab for it. When the big moment came the Prof reached for where
- the eraser had first been (seems he saw it when he first came in and assumed
- it hadn't moved). After a moment of hesitation he made a grab for the eraser
- and I pulled on the line. The timing was perfect and the eraser zipped from
- its resting place an instant before the Prof would have gotten it. After
- another moment of hesitation he pounced on it catching me unprepared. He
- picked it up and gave it a thorough going over but in picking it up the
- straight pin was pulled out and he couldn't find anything unusual with it.
- The Prof seemed to just shrug it off but the rest of us thought it was great.
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