I briefly thought to change the story to Arts guy, it would still be as funny and avoid the stereotype. And then I thought, why not tell what actually happened.

1. It's a math joke. Why have you lumped engineers and doctors together? The amount and depth of the math studied by those two groups is entirely different.

2. We didn't think we were superior to eveybody (remember now, the professor was an Artsman) just the dizzy girl in the front row.

3. "Engineering students and doctors and other professional degrees can't even balance their own checkbook" - citation needed.

True Story: -Engineers at my school had to take 15 units of Arts courses as part of their studies, and Economics 100 was one of the popular choices. We had an Econ 100 class that matched a hole in the 3rd year mech and EE schedule, as a result we had about 2/3 engineers and 1/3 Arts students.

One day the prof, a very smart man with a subtle sense of humor, drew a graph of some function on the board. He drew the x and y axes, a straight line with a 45 degree slope and labelled the x intercept "a" and the y intercept "b". One of the girls from Arts puts up her hand and says "I don't think it should be that steep". The prof erases the line, redraws it half as steep and labels the x intercept "a" and the y intercept "b". "How's that" he says."Much better" says Arts girl.

Every engineer in the place falls over laughing. We laugh even harder as we see the confused look on Arts girl's face as she tries to figure out what's so damned funny. The prof never cracks a smile.

toe the line. Not tow, toe. TOE. ok, thanks.

In Japan and Canada, private citizens aren't allowed to even own handguns.

Don't know about Japan but Canadians are most definitely allowed to own handguns. "Them gophers aren't gonna shoot themselves"

In case of Sonic Attack on your district, follow these rules.....

If you are making love it is imperative to bring all bodies to orgasm simultaneously
Do not waste time blocking your ears.
Do not waste time seeking a soundproof shelter.
Try to get as far away from the sonic source as possible,
but do not panic.....

Use your wheels. It is what they are for.
Small babies may be placed inside the special cocoons,
which should be left if possible, in a shelter.
Do not attempt to use your own limbs.
If no wheels are available, metal, not organic, limbs should be employed whenever possible.....
Remember, in the case of Sonic Attack, Survival means every man for himself.
Statistically more people survive if they think only of themselves.
Do not attempt to rescue friends, relatives, loved ones.
You have only a few seconds to escape.
Use those seconds sensibly or you will inevitably die.
Do not panic.
Think only of yourself....

These are the first signs of Sonic Attack:
You will notice small objects, such as ornaments, oscillating.
You will notice a vibration in your diaphragm.
You will hear a distant hissing in your ears.
You will feel dizzy.
You will feel the need to vomit.
There will be bleeding from orifices.
There will be an ache in the pelvic region.
You may be subject to fits of hysterical shouting, or even laughter.

These are all sign of imminent Sonic destruction.
Your only real protection is flight.
If you are less than ten years old, then remain in your shelter and use your cocoon.
But remember:
You can help no-one else, No-one else, No-one else......

Here they have a news crawler saying that the Bank of Canada is going to lower interests or something, but they abbreviate it BOC and I always wonder why the Blue Oyster Cult is setting financial policy.

I mostly don't reply to AC rants, but in this case you are 100% correct. The content on the linked page takes up less than 10% of the width of my screen.

your spellchecker accidentally replaced humiliation with humility just before you posted.

Time is an illusion, Life is but time, Steep is the mountain which we climb.

Holocaust

The Small Hours

Either you have bad noisy power or really horrible wiring or the worst luck ever. I have CFLs in some of my outside fixtures that I haven't changed in seven years.

"by and large they want a hollywood ending as opposed to the artistic ending, which is what their real problem with it is" - 100% entirely incorrect. We don't want a "happy" ending. Nobody seriously expected to see Shepard and Garrus on a beach somewhere drinking mai tais at the end. We know shepard's destiny is destroy the reapers at the cost of her (his) own life. Sure as hell we don't want a hollywood ending. We want an ending that 1. doesn't introduce a blue glowing deus ex machina child 5 minutes before the end of the game. 2. Allows our choices as a player to have some effect (Choose Krogans or Salarians, Choose Geth or Quarians, no difference) 3. Makes sense 4. provides a proper denoument, instead of absolutely everything blows up, normandy crashes, farmboy asks for another shepard story?? WTF??) What happens to galactic civilization? Did we actually save it or did the mass relay explosions wipe out everything and everyone we knew? 5. Doesn't feel like it was hastily cobbled together in about 5 minutes and pasted on without any thought.

No, the smectic tubes are older.

Thank you for the Cracked link. I laughed so hard my sides ache.

Not one word of your post is true...Sorry.