Creative answers on exams
Found these while trolling the web today; had to save them – good for a laugh some other day
Can we buy a little happiness everyday
Every day is a blur, every day is another churn of the machine, every day is another fleeting memory, everyday is another sad story. I recently befriended a girl and almost instantly envied her because she seemed to derive happiness from the smallest and most trivial things that most of us so nonchalantly wave away. […]
Blaming the market turmoil on FAS 157
What a blast from the past. FASB is finally issuing new guidance about market-to-market accounting rules after much finger pointing from both the Congress and the Wall St wonks. Almost a year ago, there was a big furor by Blackstone’s Schwartzman about the potential dangers of FAS 157 and the blogosphere debated about it pretty […]
Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Si
is now stuck in my head. The seven basic notes of classical music are the 101 of all basic music learning, yet I have never heard of them till last week when I was asked to memorize them till I could sing every song in these syllables. The first thing that came to my mind […]
The Bozon Threat
A couple of decades ago, public health officials noted an increasing and alarming phenomenon. Smart people who had spent a lot of time with stupid people were turning stupid. Permanently. This was seen as a significant problem. Investigation revealed that stupid people emit a small, lightweight particle that travels in irregular motions like a fly […]
Bank Nationalization….Been there, done that
Today AIG sounded more like ‘Americans in Grief’ than ‘America’s International Grandiose’. Both WSJ and NYT had front page articles covering the big bad wolf and how it was consuming our hard-earned dollars faster than we can say kaboom. There is a large public debate on whether nationalization of banks and financial institutions is a […]