• Point vs. plane

      03/30/2013
      Austin Frakt

    Via @mamajoan:

    The sign was posted at MIT, of course.

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    • by robert aylward on March 30th, 2013 at 10:30

      The old joke about the young man at the grocery store in the 10 items or less line with a basket-full of groceries. The clerk says to the young man: “You must be a student at MIT or Harvard?” “How did you know”, asked the young man. “Because you either can’t read or can’t count”, replied the clerk.

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    • by Weiwen on March 30th, 2013 at 16:41

      And of course, we have to ask why the sign is facing the way it is. The photo is taken from the inside, looking out.

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      • by Austin Frakt on March 31st, 2013 at 07:11

        My guess: It was posted at a party. Alcohol was permitted at the party, but not permitted to be carried around campus.

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        • by Weiwen on March 31st, 2013 at 11:10

          OK, so the position of the sign implies that at MIT, it’s some kind of bizarro world where hordes of drunk people stumble out of labs, rather than hordes of drunk people bumbling into labs from the main campus. Wouldn’t you expect it to be more the latter?

          Heck, maybe not. It’s been some time since I’ve been in school. But if I were at MIT, I’d be more likely to knock a few beers back at the Cambridge Brewing Company and then stagger into some engineering lab.

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          • by Austin Frakt on March 31st, 2013 at 14:58

            Huh? As I was trying to convey, it was likely posted at a party in a building, e.g., a graduation event. Alcohol permitted at the event but not wandering about campus.

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            • by Weiwen on April 1st, 2013 at 10:15

              It was a joke. Unfortunately, my sense of humor leans deadpan, which doesn’t carry well over the Internets.

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