Phantasy Star: Fringes of Algo

by **SparkyIII** » Tue Feb 5, '08, 10:58 pm

Kaloes wrote:this crap is getting ridiculous.. soon we'll be walking in the streets and then (Poot) the cops will pull us off the street and arrest us for causing damage to the earth..

I pretty much died laughing here.
"IT WAS AN ACCIDENT!"
Yeah yeah, tell it to the judge...
Judge: I hereby stentence you to.....*pfft*
Baliff: GET HER!!!

by **Silver_Surfer1** » Wed Feb 13, '08, 9:00 pm

I read the following story yesterday, and found it hard to believe. I suppose it's true, but how the guy ever pulled it off, is beyond belief. What do you think?

http://www.10news.com/news/15274005/detail.html

by **SparkyIII** » Wed Feb 13, '08, 11:11 pm

Cheaters. He would have never made it through my class had I been a teacher.

by **Thoul** » Thu Feb 14, '08, 4:02 am

It's really hard to believe that he was able to get by in all those classes just by cheating. I suppose when you do it that much, you become really good at hiding it. It's amazing that no one ever picked up on it in all that time.

by **Rudo** » Thu Feb 14, '08, 4:56 am

This takes the cake. If he failed anybody, they ought to sue the pants off him.
Don't teachers have to pass a test or exam of some type to get a teacher's certificate? How'd he manage to pass that with not being able to read? And, why tell about all of it now? I bet he's got a book deal lined up or something.

by **Thoul** » Thu Feb 14, '08, 11:05 pm

IIRC, the article said he already had two books published. He probably cheated on the teacher's exam, if he had to take on back then.

by **Tsunami** » Fri Feb 15, '08, 2:41 am

Personally, I think it's a load of BS. If he can't read, then how could he take the tests in the first place? Chances are, he'd have to know the material as well to even get good scores. I somehow doubt that he managed all this with cheating and dumb luck. In school, I can see it being the case, but you have to go to college to be a teacher, yes? Then again, since this guy's old, then it makes me question what the standards were back then, which could also effect how believable this is.

by **Thoul** » Sun Feb 17, '08, 7:26 pm

Remember the guy who was declared dead? Here's a similar story that is a little closer to home for those of us in the US:
http://www.wsmv.com/news/15315424/detail.html

by **Wolf Bird** » Sun Feb 17, '08, 8:34 pm

Ahh, love the bureaucratic red tape that causes crap like this to happen. One little mistake made, it'll cause problems for YEARS.

by **Thoul** » Mon Feb 25, '08, 9:26 pm

Here's a silly one. A lot of companies have jumped on the Wii bandwagon by making custom controllers for the system. I've seen everything from tennis rackets to golf clubs to pots and pans. Most at least seem to have some kind of uniqueness to them, but not these:
http://ces.cnet.com/8301-13855_1-984532 ... l?tag=more

Seriously, who's going to need that many light guns?

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