IgnoranceI once was in a programming class where the task was "build a calculator". A student did one with buttons 1, 2, 3 all the way up to about 25 and then ran out of space on the screen. We've asked this before but liked it so much we're asking again: What's the best example of ignorance you've encountered?
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 30 Aug 2012, 12:30)
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I used to work with someone who insisted that the phrase was "taking things to the eighth degree". Apparently you say that because "eight is a high number".
Spent some time laughing at my boyfriend in the pub tonight because he thinks Bradley Wiggins is the Wikileaks whistleblower. He also thinks the Tate Modern houses a fine collection of art by Kevin Bacon.
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The conventional phrase is nth degreebut being that Masons and cops can both give you the 3rd degree, the 8th degree seems like a logical extension.
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Likewise, don't spend too much time painting something,it's not the Sixteenth Chapel, after all.
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Squilliam but . . . . *I'm* the one with all the talent!, Thu 6 Sep 2012, 1:26,
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