15th October 2005, 11:18 PM
Anyone ever have teachers that attempted to get class interest by compairing whatever they were teaching to sports, at all possible times, regardless of whether the analogy even made sense?
I seem to recall a history teacher trying to get the class interested in the battles of ancient Rome by comparing the soldiers of Rome to football players. Basically he actually had a chart comparing all the equipment of a football player to the equipment of a soldier, right down to calling the football a sword.
...no dice...
Sorry, but a game player can in no way ever dare to compare themselves to an actual soldier. The "enemy" in any sport is not actually attempting to KILL them. They are just attempting to score a point. Also, in a sport, anything goes does not slide, not with that referee guy there. In a war, all is fair as they say. Seriously, you stick a football player in the middle of a battlefield and, unless the guy also happens to be a soldier, he's pretty much dead. And last I checked, you don't toss a sword back and forth in a game of keep away in battle.
MI4 may not have been as good, but you are forgetting his final transformation into the politician demon zombie ghost pirate. I'm pretty sure him being a politician really was intended as a "this is the worst form yet!" type of joke.
Also he had a giant robot.
But then there's the mystical ninja with his own giant robot. Impactoooo!
I seem to recall a history teacher trying to get the class interested in the battles of ancient Rome by comparing the soldiers of Rome to football players. Basically he actually had a chart comparing all the equipment of a football player to the equipment of a soldier, right down to calling the football a sword.
...no dice...
Sorry, but a game player can in no way ever dare to compare themselves to an actual soldier. The "enemy" in any sport is not actually attempting to KILL them. They are just attempting to score a point. Also, in a sport, anything goes does not slide, not with that referee guy there. In a war, all is fair as they say. Seriously, you stick a football player in the middle of a battlefield and, unless the guy also happens to be a soldier, he's pretty much dead. And last I checked, you don't toss a sword back and forth in a game of keep away in battle.
MI4 may not have been as good, but you are forgetting his final transformation into the politician demon zombie ghost pirate. I'm pretty sure him being a politician really was intended as a "this is the worst form yet!" type of joke.
Also he had a giant robot.
But then there's the mystical ninja with his own giant robot. Impactoooo!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)