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- Path: sparky!uunet!uunet.ca!xenitec!looking!funny-request
- Message-ID: <S4cc.3fae@looking.on.ca>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 19:30:03 EST
- Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
- From: warren-matthew@cs.yale.edu (Matthew S. 'Opie' Warren)
- Subject: Overeager Achiever
- Keywords: original, chuckle, true
- Approved: funny@clarinet.com
- Lines: 35
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- A true story; happened right here, not apocryphal.
-
- In my college dorm we play 'Assassin,' like lots of students. Unlike most
- people, though, we use Silly String(tm) instead of water pistols, so that
- if you hit your target there's never an argument about whether you really
- hit them because, well, they're covered with Silly String(tm).
-
- But for those two weeks you carry your Silly String(tm) everywhere, even
- into classrooms where you're automatically safe. So, there I was in this
- Psychology class with my friend, and we were kind of holding our Silly
- String at the ready while the professor lectured.
-
- The class was Psychology of Group Behavior, and the professor was talking
- out our next assignment, which concerned group norms. (Group norms are
- the unspoken rules of a group, i.e. you don't grab someone else's
- dining-hall tray and start eating off it). She was telling us the project,
- which is to violate a group norm blatantly and intentionally, and then
- write a little two-page paper about it.
-
- And my crazy friend gets up, walks down the aisle and gets up on the stage
- with the professor, and proceeds to cover her in Silly String(tm).
- Needless to say everyone figured out what was going on, and the applause
- brought down the house.
-
- He only got a B-plus on the paper, though. Go figure.
-
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- Matthew S. "Opie" Warren warren-matthew@yale.edu
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