Ted said:

<        "True, but what if this hypothetical, uh, directionally challenged
person, (everyone started laughing) takes, oh, let's say for example,
threee days to find the vacant lot behind his house? How do you explain
that?">

Hmmm..he didn't even answer that, and I'm sure it would have been
interesting. Perhaps you should've made it more plausible by citing the
"taking a week to get to places where he's going, on the average"
example. ^_^

<Somehow I didn't think he took me seriously because evryone started to
laugh. He said that was very funny and so I left class today somewhat
confused.>

Well, it's tough to psychoanalze Ranma, really, but it has been done. I
mean, remember the story I told about my Biology professor using Ranma
1/2 in our final? So it _can_ be done...^_^

I just think you should just quit the circumventing and use direct names
and stuff....like..."Well, let's just say I have a friend named Ryouga who
can't really read a map and who takes forever (literally) to get to places,
especially to important events. How is that explained? His whole family is
kind of like this..." With college professors, you have to give the question
a little pinch of RL to get them to answer it for you. Otherwise they're not
likely to take you seriously ^_^ Ask Arnold, Saotome Laura, or any of the
others here in college. I'm sure that if you took just about half your life to
get your PhD or Master's in something you wouldn't be apt to tkae a lot of
stuff seriously if it isn't believeable enough. ^_^

^_^,
Frank

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