Stupid Question Hall of Fame: The Week of 02/23

The Stupid Question Hall of Fame is back again, ready to embarrass the kids who cheapen your degree. Remember the rules – If you send in the absolute stupidest, you get a free BustedTee. Read all five and cast your vote. And, if you heard something stupid in class this week, send it to me at CollegeHumor.com/StupidQuestions.

• A) SCADSubmitted by Brady

  While working on a problem in which we had to find the total pounds per square foot of water…
  
  Genius: How many lbs are in a pound?
  
  Professor: The same number of ins in an inch.
  

• B) Lawrence UniversitySubmitted by Nick

  Professor was talking about castration of young boys in the Baroque Period in order to make them sing better.
  
  Scholar: “How did cutting off their heads make them sing better?”
  

• C) Olympic CollegeSubmitted by Nick

  Professor: So basically, if the half-life of Cesium-137 is twenty years, it doesn’t matter if you have 10 pounds or 10 tons. In twenty years, half of it’s gone.
  
  Valedictorian: Isn’t that the stuff they use in Carbon dating?
  
  Professor: That’s carbon.

• D) HACCSubmitted by Kurt

  Professor: In a right triangle with a 30 degree angle the side ratios are always 1, 2, and the square root of 3.
  The Brilliance: So, 2 is always twice 1?

• E) SPUSubmitted by Kevin

  Talking about our evolutionary ancestors…
  
  Lil’ Einstein: Do you think the different skull shapes and things that we find are just from different races or something?