How is this possible?

[MicroBob]

some schools give 4.2 or 4.5 or something for A+ I think.

You guys have never heard of this?

Maybe there are some schools that have 5.0 as the perfect score. I think I heard of this too but I'm not certain.

[BigSoonerFan]

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Marine Crops Drops Student After Essay
Friday, April 27, 2007 9:21 PM EDT
The Associated Press
By MEGAN REICHGOT

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what i don't get is, did they mispell corps here or did you quote it wrong or something?

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The thread is titled, "How is this possible?"

I thought that title referred to the AP misspelling "Marine Corps".


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He didn't. Apparently AP did.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070428/...essay_arrest_3

[xxThe_Lebowskixx]

So he wrote an essay about killing people, so now he isnt allowed to join the marines and "defend america" code for kill people?

[KreellKeiser]

He writes a violent essay and is therefore unqualified to go kill people on behalf of his country.

Makes perfect sense.

Anyone know "Alice's Restaurant" by Arlo Guthrie?

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And I went up there, I said, "Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I
wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and
guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill,
KILL, KILL." And I started jumpin up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL," and
he started jumpin up and down with me and we was both jumping up and down
yelling, "KILL, KILL." And the sargent came over, pinned a medal on me,
sent me down the hall, said, "You're our boy."

Didn't feel too good about it.

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...and I turned over the piece of paper, and there, there on the
other side, in the middle of the other side, away from everything else on
the other side, in parentheses, capital letters, quotated, read the
following words:

("KID, HAVE YOU REHABILITATED YOURSELF?")

I went over to the sargent, said, "Sargeant, you got a lot a damn gall to
ask me if I've rehabilitated myself, I mean, I mean, I mean that just, I'm
sittin' here on the bench, I mean I'm sittin here on the Group W bench
'cause you want to know if I'm moral enough join the army, burn women,
kids, houses and villages after bein' a litterbug." He looked at me and
said, "Kid, we don't like your kind, and we're gonna send you fingerprints
off to Washington."

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[[Phill]]

Ironically the last person the Marines want is someone predisposed to killing without hesitation.