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Title: Are you smarter than than an Kentucky 8th grader from 1912?
Post by: Himu on September 11, 2013, 05:15:55 PM
This test is going viral. It's from a high school entrance exam in 1912 and it's stumping people.

http://www.bullittcountyhistory.com/bchistory/schoolexam1912.html
Title: Re: Are you smarter than than an Kentucky 8th grader from 1912?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on September 11, 2013, 05:20:10 PM
Sure that's not just the test they gave black kids?  :gurl
Title: Re: Are you smarter than than an Kentucky 8th grader from 1912?
Post by: Steve Contra on September 11, 2013, 05:21:31 PM
In 8th grade I could've answered most of those just fine.  I've forgotten how to diagram a sentence because why the fuck would I ever need to do that.

Also I guarantee I'm way less racist then anyone who took that test.

Shit, PD might be right :sabu
Title: Re: Are you smarter than than an Kentucky 8th grader from 1912?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on September 11, 2013, 05:23:20 PM
Diagramming sentences in cursive  :beli

English classes sucked as a kid.
Title: Re: Are you smarter than than an Kentucky 8th grader from 1912?
Post by: Great Rumbler on September 11, 2013, 05:31:37 PM
I'd ace that in a heartbeat...after feverishly cramming the night before.
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Post by: archnemesis on September 11, 2013, 05:35:22 PM
Apparently, eneeavor is a misspelling of endeavor. That was the first thing that stumped me. The only thing difficult about the arithmetic part is the imperial units. I would get 90% of the grammar wrong and 90% of the geography right. Physiology is easy peasy. Civil government is very focused on Kentucky and America. I know the answers to the general questions. The history part is really interesting. I should look up the correct answers to that section.
Title: Re: Are you smarter than than an Kentucky 8th grader from 1912?
Post by: Himu on September 11, 2013, 06:01:34 PM
If I was taught this stuff in a school setting, I'd ace this shit. But I haven't been in school in years so fuck it. :sabu
Title: Re: Are you smarter than than an Kentucky 8th grader from 1912?
Post by: nudemacusers on September 11, 2013, 07:04:36 PM
no but i can beat the fuck out of a 8th grader with my fists.



(assuming it's a poor and malnourished 8th grader)
Title: Re: Are you smarter than than an Kentucky 8th grader from 1912?
Post by: Joe Molotov on September 11, 2013, 08:03:00 PM
Quote from: nudemacusers on September 11, 2013, 07:04:36 PM
no but i can beat the fuck out of a 8th grader with my fists.



(assuming it's a poor and malnourished 8th grader)

I don't know if I could beat an 8th grader in a fist fight, but if the opportunity ever presented itself, God help me I'd try.
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Post by: tehjaybo on September 12, 2013, 04:49:05 AM
The Kentucky Education System, hard at work.  :smug

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Title: Re: Are you smarter than than an Kentucky 8th grader from 1912?
Post by: nudemacusers on September 12, 2013, 08:32:11 AM
Quote from: Joe Molotov on September 11, 2013, 08:03:00 PM
Quote from: nudemacusers on September 11, 2013, 07:04:36 PM
no but i can beat the fuck out of a 8th grader with my fists.



(assuming it's a poor and malnourished 8th grader)


I don't know if I could beat an 8th grader in a fist fight, but if the opportunity ever presented itself, God help me I'd try.
that's why i had to qualify, they make these kids big nowadays
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Post by: hampster on September 12, 2013, 09:02:26 AM
If that 8th grader is so smart lets see him operate a computer :smug

Title: Re: Are you smarter than than an Kentucky 8th grader from 1912?
Post by: hampster on September 12, 2013, 09:14:07 AM
Pluto :tocry
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Post by: nudemacusers on September 12, 2013, 09:32:26 AM
fuck pluto and fuck charon
Title: Re: Are you smarter than than an Kentucky 8th grader from 1912?
Post by: Joe Molotov on September 12, 2013, 11:35:16 AM
Pluto got plutoed.
Title: Re: Are you smarter than than an Kentucky 8th grader from 1912?
Post by: CajoleJuice on September 12, 2013, 12:11:18 PM
Quote from: Joe Molotov on September 12, 2013, 11:35:16 AM
Pluto got plutoed.

god, i forgot about this hahaha
Title: Re: Are you smarter than than an Kentucky 8th grader from 1912?
Post by: Himu on September 12, 2013, 12:12:51 PM
plutoed died before its time
Title: Re: Are you smarter than than an Kentucky 8th grader from 1912?
Post by: hampster on September 12, 2013, 01:36:22 PM
I saw on twitter that Pluto is considered a planet in the new PS3 game, puppeteer :aah
Title: Re: Are you smarter than than an Kentucky 8th grader from 1912?
Post by: Steve Contra on September 12, 2013, 01:44:33 PM
Sorry, if half the country gets to deny climate change and evolution I can still call Pluto a planet.
Title: Re: Are you smarter than than an Kentucky 8th grader from 1912?
Post by: nudemacusers on September 12, 2013, 01:50:00 PM
Quote from: Steve Contra on September 12, 2013, 01:44:33 PM
Sorry, if half the country gets to deny climate change and evolution I can still call Pluto a planet.
And if you get to call pluto a planet then I want to deny feathers on dinosaurs.



Seriously fuck science for that.
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Post by: nudemacusers on September 12, 2013, 01:54:41 PM
Quote from: Eschaton on September 12, 2013, 01:53:04 PM
Feathered dinosaurs are cool though
don't make me digitally murder you
Title: Re: Are you smarter than than an Kentucky 8th grader from 1912?
Post by: Steve Contra on September 12, 2013, 02:12:44 PM
Yeah we have shit with feathers already, they're called birds.  Back in your hole, science

 :ufup
Title: Re: Are you smarter than than an Kentucky 8th grader from 1912?
Post by: nudemacusers on September 12, 2013, 02:15:53 PM
:what :trash
Title: Re: Are you smarter than than an Kentucky 8th grader from 1912?
Post by: Diunx on September 12, 2013, 02:26:02 PM
Quote from: Eschaton on September 12, 2013, 01:53:04 PM
Feathered dinosaurs are cool though



:supergay
Title: Re: Are you smarter than than an Kentucky 8th grader from 1912?
Post by: Mupepe on September 12, 2013, 02:28:08 PM
Quote from: Eschaton on September 12, 2013, 02:13:50 PM
:whew :leon

(http://www.newscientist.com/data/galleries/finding-feathered-fossils/00354b459f6.jpg)
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-R0dGJYRUXBE/TxV7xi5KN5I/AAAAAAAAAN8/nh6D-kO4eVs/s1600/jurassicpark37.PNG)
Looks more like a six foot turkey.
Title: Re: Are you smarter than than an Kentucky 8th grader from 1912?
Post by: Joe Molotov on September 12, 2013, 02:28:21 PM
Quote from: Eschaton on September 12, 2013, 02:13:50 PM
:whew :leon

(http://www.newscientist.com/data/galleries/finding-feathered-fossils/00354b459f6.jpg)

looks like something from the FurCon 2013 vendor area. :yuck
Title: Re: Are you smarter than than an Kentucky 8th grader from 1912?
Post by: Steve Contra on September 12, 2013, 02:30:17 PM
Hey look it's a giant bird and not a scaly killing machine.  Fuck that.

 :paul
Title: Re: Are you smarter than than an Kentucky 8th grader from 1912?
Post by: nudemacusers on September 12, 2013, 02:30:56 PM
oh and raban, don't think I am overlooking that like :ufup
Title: Re: Are you smarter than than an Kentucky 8th grader from 1912?
Post by: Steve Contra on September 12, 2013, 02:34:24 PM
If dinosaurs had feathers Jurassic Park would have been a heartwarming comedy about a family trying to open America's first fried Dinosaur restaurant. 
Title: Re: Are you smarter than than an Kentucky 8th grader from 1912?
Post by: nudemacusers on September 12, 2013, 02:39:10 PM
Quote from: Eschaton on September 12, 2013, 02:36:51 PM
all i read is a bunch of old people being angry about the truth :heh
what part of supreme mathematics is feathered dinosaurs?
Title: Re: Are you smarter than than an Kentucky 8th grader from 1912?
Post by: Raban on September 12, 2013, 02:42:51 PM
Feathered dinosaurs > you
Title: Re: Are you smarter than than an Kentucky 8th grader from 1912?
Post by: Joe Molotov on September 12, 2013, 02:45:43 PM
 :supergay
Title: Re: Are you smarter than than an Kentucky 8th grader from 1912?
Post by: Raban on September 12, 2013, 03:03:06 PM
so huggable :heart
Title: Re: Are you smarter than than an Kentucky 8th grader from 1912?
Post by: Himu on September 12, 2013, 03:05:17 PM
Dinosaurs with feathers :(
Title: Re: Are you smarter than than an Kentucky 8th grader from 1912?
Post by: nudemacusers on September 12, 2013, 03:14:39 PM
(http://www.cartoonscrapbook.com/01pics-L/extreme-dinosaurs_L21.jpg)

Dinosaurs on couches strapped with rockets eating whole grain snacks >> pussy ass feathered bitches
Title: Re: Are you smarter than than an Kentucky 8th grader from 1912?
Post by: Himu on September 12, 2013, 03:16:46 PM
dude, a dinosaur would look like a pokemon with or without feathers.
Title: Re: Are you smarter than than an Kentucky 8th grader from 1912?
Post by: brawndolicious on September 12, 2013, 04:03:13 PM
The history and verbal questions are actually pretty challenging, right?

Quote from: The Business on September 12, 2013, 03:55:53 PM
I envy the kids growing up in a feathered dinosaur world. When they see birds (which are reptiles these days, by the way) they will see little dinosaurs in a way we never did as kids. That's awesome.

I've never seen a full size model of a T-rex or something with feathers on it. Their feathers are probably huge.
Title: Re: Are you smarter than than an Kentucky 8th grader from 1912?
Post by: Steve Contra on September 12, 2013, 04:06:27 PM
Quote from: The Business on September 12, 2013, 03:55:53 PM
I envy the kids growing up in a feathered dinosaur world. When they see birds (which are reptiles these days, by the way) they will see little dinosaurs in a way we never did as kids. That's awesome.
Nah, they'll see birds, and they'll be all "no way am I putting lasers and rockets on that"

(http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2011/01/dino20riders-660x495.jpg)
Title: Re: Are you smarter than than an Kentucky 8th grader from 1912?
Post by: Diunx on September 12, 2013, 04:09:50 PM
Yep, sorry figgots but birds will never be cool, don't care how many goats they grab and drop.

:bow Lizards :bow2
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Post by: brawndolicious on September 12, 2013, 04:13:00 PM
Feathers provide a much better sense of scale than rockets and goats.
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Post by: chronovore on September 12, 2013, 11:45:01 PM
Next, someone'll be telling me Sleestaks had feathers, too.
Title: Re: Are you smarter than than an Kentucky 8th grader from 1912?
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on September 13, 2013, 03:50:24 AM
Dinosaurs had feathers? All of them or just some?

Title: Re: Are you smarter than than an Kentucky 8th grader from 1912?
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on September 13, 2013, 03:50:58 AM
Quote from: Steve Contra on September 12, 2013, 04:06:27 PM
(http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2011/01/dino20riders-660x495.jpg)

I have this on VHS at my parents home dudes
Title: Re: Are you smarter than than an Kentucky 8th grader from 1912?
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on September 13, 2013, 03:53:17 AM
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Feathered everything: just how many dinosaurs had feathers?

Recent discoveries point to the possibility that a great many, maybe even most, non-avian dinosaurs had feathers or something similar as part of their body covering. Dr Dave Hone


 :banplz

http://www.theguardian.com/science/lost-worlds/2013/jun/10/dinosaurs-fossils
Title: Re: Are you smarter than than an Kentucky 8th grader from 1912?
Post by: archnemesis on September 13, 2013, 04:11:18 AM
Only some dinosaurs had feathers and they might have had a different function and look compared to the feathers you see on modern dinosaurs (birds).
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Post by: Dickie Dee on September 13, 2013, 07:42:22 AM
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Once insulating feathers had evolved in theropod dinosaurs, there was nothing to prevent sexual selection from taking over and driving the process even further. As yet, we know very little about the color of dinosaur feathers, but it's a sure bet that some species sported bright greens, reds and oranges, probably in a sexually dimorphic fashion (i.e., the males were more brightly colored than the females, or vice versa).


:supergay
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Post by: Mupepe on September 13, 2013, 07:43:41 AM
So basically giant peacocks.  Fucking gay.
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Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on September 13, 2013, 08:20:46 PM
Now that we've established the fact that dinosaurs are for fegs, how about the recent discovery of a fossil of a bus sized crocodile that lived in Venezuela: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/armadillo-as-big-as-a-car-vs-bussized-croc-12000-fossils-found-in-venezuelan-oil-pit-8802595.html
Title: Re: Are you smarter than than an Kentucky 8th grader from 1912?
Post by: Himu on September 13, 2013, 08:25:14 PM
Quote from: Mary Tyler Whore on September 13, 2013, 08:20:46 PM
Now that we've established the fact that dinosaurs are for fegs, how about the recent discovery of a fossil of a bus sized crocodile that lived in Venezuela: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/armadillo-as-big-as-a-car-vs-bussized-croc-12000-fossils-found-in-venezuelan-oil-pit-8802595.html

yeah that report made me rage cuz there was no pic, but then again they're probably licensed to nat geo or some museum who bought the remains.
Title: Re: Are you smarter than than an Kentucky 8th grader from 1912?
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on September 13, 2013, 08:27:34 PM
Apparently they discovered some fossils of it in the Sahara a decade ago:

(http://thegreencuttingboard.blogspot.com/Prehistoric-croc.jpg)
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1615000/images/_1619458_supercroc150.jpg)
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Post by: Barry Egan on September 14, 2013, 12:08:48 AM
imagine if that epic fucking crocodile had feathers on it.  It would be a travesty.