Slog - Comments on Chemistry Mid-Term. Is Hell Exothermic or Endothermic?

Comment by RUShur

RUShur — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:12:41 -0800

This is older than old, Josh.

(At least in net terms.)

Comment by Emma Leigh

Emma Leigh — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:13:34 -0800

Congratulations!!! You are our 1,000,000,000th visitor!!!
http://www.snopes.com/college/exam/hell.asp

Comment by Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:25:01 -0800

Dude, I don't want to be a dick but this has to be close to 10 years old.

Heh.

Comment by Noa

Noa — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:26:24 -0800

WELCOME TO TEH INTERNETS!!!!

Comment by vooodooo84

vooodooo84 — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:35:59 -0800

Its a series of tubes

Comment by Abby

Abby — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:44:30 -0800

You mean it's not a truck?

Comment by Josh Feit

Josh Feit — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:44:34 -0800

Sorry you guys. Hadn't seen it before. I think it's fun to read.

Comment by spock

spock — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:49:59 -0800

An anti-religious bore is as boring as a religious bore.

Since you seem to be having trouble looking things up on snopes.com, I will help you out:

http://www.snopes.com/college/exam/hell.asp

Origins: The piece quoted above likely began as a humor post to the newsgroup rec.humor in 1997. Its roots, however, are far older ... a story found in a 1962 book (reprinted from a 1960 magazine) is a mathematical "proof" that heaven is hotter than hell...

Comment by Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:50:21 -0800

I think this may have been the very first email I ever received back in 1996 (not counting the one I sent to myself to test if my email was working).

Apology accepted.

Comment by Mr. Poe

Mr. Poe — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:57:36 -0800

I've never seen this before, actually. It's pretty lame.

Comment by Big Sven

Big Sven — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:33:22 -0800

An atheist engineer pal of mine had a paper copy of this on his cube wall in 1991.

Comment by takes a bow

takes a bow — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:39:37 -0800

If this isn�t a hoax, will the UW student who wrote this perfect theorem please stand up and take a bow.

That's me. Not my best work, but it was enough to get me an A.

Comment by Anon

Anon — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:06:55 -0800

Mr. Feit and Mr. Poe, have I told you about the time I tried to use a $2 bill at Taco Bell...

Comment by OR Matt

OR Matt — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:55:28 -0800

It's a fossil foward

Comment by Colin

Colin — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:41:01 -0800

I think the Nigerian prince wrote it. The one with all the money but no bank account.

Comment by grumpypants

grumpypants — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 06:56:55 -0800

Colin:
I think it was actually Burlap Boy.

Comment by violet_dagrinder

violet_dagrinder — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:24:57 -0800

It's exothermic.

Comment by RUShur

RUShur — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:30:46 -0800

Hai guyz

Did u hear that if u forwrd this thred to 10 people, Microsoft will give u a free copy of Windows 95?

It's true!

Comment by Greg

Greg — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:49:31 -0800

Okay, guys, this needs to stop. If the Stranger staff can't be bothered to keep up with the various internet fads and hoaxes, at least spare us the annoyance of reading about them again and again years later.

Comment by ray

ray — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:52:41 -0800

i work in the main office at the uw chemistry department, and we get this email at least once a quarter from people asking to verify its validity.

obviously, this never happened at uw.

Comment by Judah

Judah — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:57:49 -0800

My chemistry prof at Evergreen read this to my class in 1990.

Comment by Gomez

Gomez — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:01:25 -0800

As for whether or not this meme is old, let�s look at the different memes that exist in the world today.

Some of these memes are circulated through e-mail in the form of chain letters. Since there are more than one variety of these chain e-mails and since people have been stating for years to colleagues that this e-mails are reviled and will lead to deletion, we can surmise that chain e-mails are old meme.

Likewise, when others uninformed personae such as yourself post them, the memes in turn can age exponentially...

Comment by Josh Feit

Josh Feit — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:09:38 -0800

Sorry for the great inconvenience, y'all.

Comment by tango and bash

tango and bash — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:13:41 -0800

Please tell me more of this fascinating com-poo-ter.

Comment by Will in Seattle

Will in Seattle — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:00:01 -0800

It's a closed loop.

The act of measuring would alter it, anyway.

Comment by Gomez

Gomez — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:03:02 -0800

23. Inconvenience? I say not, Josh. I found great entertainment value in this whole exercise!

Comment by Professor Meme

Professor Meme — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:45:19 -0800

@22- you seem to love the word "meme".

Comment by un

un — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:28:12 -0800

Gomez thinks meme is academic somehow. (it is, but not in his little OMGLOL way).

also Gomez is always rude and angry because he is a very rare breed of asian.

FAT.

Comment by Gomez

Gomez — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:49:33 -0800

But HOW... FAT... AM I?

Comment by wile_e_quixote

wile_e_quixote — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:15:10 -0800

Now that Josh has posted a years old internet joke that I first saw on rec.humor.funny back in the 1990s perhaps we can get Charles Mudede to smoke a bunch of dope and then write a really long and incomprehensible slog piece on what it all means that includes pictures of whatever hot woman he's currently wanking over. That would be perfect.