[PRL] Pop quiz

Richard Cobbe cobbe at ccs.neu.edu
Thu Mar 10 19:10:34 EST 2005


On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 06:58:15PM -0500, Carl Eastlund wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:53:35 -0500, Richard Cobbe <cobbe at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 06:23:05PM -0500, Mitchell Wand wrote:
> > > As another in a sequence of occasional quizzes on pop culture, I'm
> > > asking the following question:
> > >
> > > Do you know who Pinky and The Brain [who appear in the comic strip on
> > > my door] are?
> > >
> > > This poll open to all members of the PRL.
> > 
> > They're ...
> 
> By replying to all with a full explanation, Richard, you have pretty
> much changed everyone else's answer to "yes", you know.

I'm sorry; I'd assumed that if Mitch had wanted this to be kept secret,
he'd have indicated such.  (Conducting a pop quiz by email is strange
enough that I don't think one could infer much from that.  (And that
should satisfy the hair-splitters in the lab.))

Chalk it up to a bad communications day on my part.

Richard



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