Monday, September 9, 2019

What is the sound of one hand clapping?

I take attendance by asking the students a question.

What is the sound of one hand clapping? (previously: 2017 2016)

  • tap?
  • skrrt
  • snap
  • slap
  • crakc!
  • yes
  • uwu
  • whoosh
  • a hand puppet
  • nothingness
  • the sound of silence
  • emptiness
  • category mistake
  • nothing sadness (2 votes)
  • no sound
  • owo
  • a snap?
  • uwu

This post's theme word is potch (v tr), "to slap or spank," or (n) "a slap or spanking." A solo potch is silent patter?

Why did the chicken cross the road?

I take attendance by asking the students a question.

Why did the chicken cross the road? (previously: 2017 2016)

  • idk
  • no idea
  • not sure
  • I don't know
  • I don't know
  • why not?
  • exercize!
  • to cry
  • the chicken saw a sale
  • Because why wouldn't it?
  • to find its friends
  • can't I just say "to get to the other side"?
  • to lay an egg
  • to chase innocent children
  • Colonel Sanders was in pursuit
  • it wanted a Popeye's chicken sandwich on the other side
  • to run away from the Chic-Fil-A
  • you tell me
  • or did it?
  • because the chicken has no free will
  • determinism
  • because it wanted to
  • to be part of The Beatles
  • to solve algorithms problems
The "non sequitur" award goes to "cuz 7 is a prime".


This post's theme word is slue (v intr), "to turn, swing, or slide in a particular direction" or (n), "such a turn, swing or slide." The chicken sped across the road and slued into the neighbor's coop!