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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cpm9ball, post: 1189202, member: 24633&quot;]Don&#039;t feel too bad, guys. Here is a true tale I related to one of the other contestants..........</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">This contest was as much a lesson in following directions as anything else. My high school and college years were in the 60&#039;s. Obviously, there were no computers or even calculators. If you needed research, you had to go to the library and search the &quot;stacks&quot; for what you needed, and mathematical computations had to be performed with either a slide rule or in longhand. Naturally, the dictionary was your best friend.</span></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">I still remember a mid-term exam my Econ 101 professor gave us back in 1966. It was 25 questions, and knowing his grading scale, you had to answer 20 correctly (80%) to get a passing grade. The test paper began with the usual instructions............&quot;read everything before doing anything&quot;. Most of the kids went right to work answering the questions, but if you had read everything first as you were instructed, you would have arrived at #25 which directed you to sign the top of your paper and you were finished. There were only 5 of us who followed the instructions, and the rest of the class failed.</span></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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