What plague do you wish on your enemies?

I take attendance by asking students a question.

What plague do you wish on your enemies? (previously 2016 2017)

Many people wished "kindness" or "none" or "peace" or "probably nothing, that's too mean for me :)". They were very nice with a potentially mean question. Kudos to them!

Some were traditional: "locusts", "the bubonic kind", "small plague", "big plague", "black plague", "Swat plague", "the worst kind".

Other people went more devious and unusual: "almost going to sneeze feeling", "inability to not forgive", "inability to be punctual", "balding", "chronic toe-stubbing", "no more printer ink", "constantly stepping on Legos", "saying everything they're thinking". The Most Sinister Award goes to "loss of hope :)". Yikes.


This post's theme word is eucrasia (n), "a normal state of health; physical well-being." Contrast eucrasia with dyscrasia to figure out if you've been cursed with a plague!

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I take attendance by asking the students a question.

A _________ walks into a bar. The bartender says, "________". (previously 2016 2017)

The basic was "A sad horse walks into a bar. The bartender says, "Why the long face?""

Many people said "A person walks into a bar." The follow-up bartender lines were:

• "you look like you need a drink"
• "hey"
• "woof"
• "hello"
• "what's up"

There were some unconventional ones: "fish/what's up", "bear/bear", "lemon/hi", "chicken/how'd you cross the road?", "duck/no", "mushroom/hey fun guy", "horse/hay".

I appreciated "A Turing Machine walks into a bar. The bartender says, "Am I also a TM?"" And I found this reasonable for our setting: "A university walks into a bar. The bartender say,s "you are an institution that perpetuates privilege".

Today's Professorial Raised Eyebrow Award goes to the several students who wrote each other, by name, in to the prompt.

This post' s theme word is flapdoodle (n), "nonsense". Sometimes the prompts elicit only flapdoodle.