Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith for November 17, 2014
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Transcript:
Dad, what's a deus ex machina? Deus means God and machina means machine. So, taken together, it means God used to date a robot, but they're broken up now. Later... Damnit dad! Was it worth it? The answer to that question will always be yes.
Apart from grading them down, teachers actually are amused by bogus answers like this, and compare them for laughs in the teacher’s lounge..In high school, we had one poor, clueless history teacher that didn’t catch us in fake footnotes. We would make up quotations from non-existent books by non-existent authors, using actual names from students in other classes. .I myself was once "Sir (my name) III, noted British historian. I know it was a mean thing to do, and I cringe when I think of it.