"Sryn" <sryn@yahoo.DELETETHIS.com> wrote in message
news:2qtbv7F13s43pU1@uni-berlin.de...
>
> "Michael Cash" <mikecash@buggerallspammers.com> wrote in message
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> > On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 09:49:59 +0900, Brett Robson
> > <deep_m_m@hotmail.com> brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>Kevin Gowen wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Yeah yeah yeah. "I'm so smart, I just can't take tests"
> >>>
> >>> This is the world's smallest violin.
> >>>
> >>
> >>Lucky Newton and Einstein didn't have to take tests.
> >
> > They didn't?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Michael Cash
> >
> > "I am sorry, Mr. Cash, but we are unable to accept your rap sheet in
lieu
> > of
> > a high school transcript."
> >
> > Dr. Howard Sprague
> > Dean of Admissions
> > Mount Pilot College
>
> If I'm not mistaken, Einstein failed his German College entrance exam
first
> (only?) time round.  Don't know anything about Newton, but I think he
might
> have lived in a time (England; China had structured exams since their
> society became highly civilised, c.f. rest of the world) where 'exams'
were
> not that as highly polished and systematic as they are now.
>
> Then again, this might have been a whoosh.

Except that not having to take tests and failing them are two very different
things.