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Plus, a roundup of the unceasing wordal news and spinoffs. A thousand Porsches are on fire

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Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

So you know that quote that gets thrown around a lot from the early 19th century of some adult saying, students today depend upon paper too much. They don't know how to

write on a slate without getting chalk dust all over themselves. They can't clean a slate properly.

What will they do when they run out a paper?

End quote.

It gets passed around a lot as a real quote dating back to 1815, but it actually first appeared in a

1978 issue of a mathematics journal, alongside a series of other quotes written in the same structure,

saying that students can't prepare

bark anymore and depend on their slates too much, and then students depend too much on ink,

and they don't know how to sharpen a pencil with a knife, and students don't know how to make

their own ink, and then they depend too much on fountain pens. Even though the slate quote

in particular gets passed around as a real quote by all accounts the

whole batch of them were satirical but the point that it was making still stands some people have a

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